Netflix’s “Crime Scene” Elisa Lam Documentary Exposes a World of Online Conspiracy Theories
10 min readFeb 19, 2021
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The Netflix documentary, Crime Scene: The Disappearance at the Cecil Hotel. explores the investigation into the disappearance of 21 year-old Canadian student, Elisa Lam, from the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in February 2013. I went in expecting a whodunit but ended up watching a…