Hotel Cecil Death: How Many Have Died In The Cecil Hotel? How Many Serial Killers Have Stayed In The Cecil Hotel?

It is believed there have been at least 80 deaths at the Cecil Hotel by suicide, overdose, or murder, sixteen of which are unexplained.

The Cecil Hotel has been bought to the attention of the public in Netflix’s recent documentary series Crime Scene: the Vanishing at Cecil Hotel, investigating what really happened to Elisa Lam after her chilling disappearance.

She was reported missing in January 2013 and was found three weeks later, dead in the hotel’s water tank on the roof after residents complained about the pressure, taste, and color of the water.

Her death was ruled an accident but it sparked mass internet conspiracies for the suspicious and bizarre details, including the famous CCTV footage that many still accuse the hotel of editing.

How Many Serial Killers Have Stayed In The Cecil Hotel?
Two serial killers famously lived at the Cecil, a 700-room hotel that opened in the 1920s and is located in Downtown L.A.’s Skid Row. For much of its history, it functioned as single-room rentals with shared bathrooms, rather than a typical hotel.

The Cecil Hotel opened in 1927 in Downtown Los Angeles and was designed to be the go-to hotel for business travelers and Hollywood tourists.

However, after the Great Depression, the hotel began to decline and gained itself a reputation for crime and suspicious deaths.