The sensational Lan Keer incident was actually solved! In February 2021, a documentary called "The Missing Incident of the Cecil Hotel" was released. The documentary pointed out that Lan Keer drowned accidentally, and also gave a relatively reasonable explanation for the many suspicious points in this case and the various strange behaviors of Lan Keer at that time. The Los Angeles police have ruled out the possibility of homicide! And Lan Keer's parents asked the hotel for compensation and lost the case! However, when I watched the surveillance video in Lan Keer's elevator repeatedly, I found an important detail, which made me creepy because I had a similar experience. Combined with Lan Keer's horror history of staying in the hotel at that time, it almost completely subverted the conclusion of accidental drowning. Before analyzing the case, let’s first review the disappearance of Lan Keer.
On January 26, 2013, Lan Keer, who came to Los Angeles alone, checked in the Cecil Hotel in the city center. This is an economy hotel with up to 15 floors with 600 rooms. It was built in 1927. Its positioning was a high-end hotel at the beginning. It attracted many celebrities as soon as it opened and quickly became a landmark building in Los Angeles in a short period of time. But the good times did not last long. In 1930, the global economic depression was in full swing, and homeless people were seen everywhere, and Los Angeles almost became a crime paradise overnight. The business of Cecil Hotel has been seriously affected, the hotel prices have been falling again and again, and the quality of guests who are staying in it has also declined again and again, and more and more criminals are hiding in the hotel.
According to incomplete statistics, there have been at least dozens of murders related to the Cecil Hotel so far, the most famous of which is Black Dahlia . In the early morning of January 14, 1947, the victim Elizabeth Xiaote was found dead on the side of the road. She was treated inhumanely during her lifetime, her entire lips were cut to her ears, forming a terrifying clown-like smile, her body was cut into two parts, her organs were taken out, and there was no trace of blood on her body. This case has not been solved yet. And the last time of Elizabeth Sauter's life was spent at the Cecil Hotel (there is controversial here, and there is another saying: she just appeared near the Cecil Hotel).
1985 American serial killer Richard Ramirez chose Cecil Hotel to stay. In just four months, he committed multiple murders, with the number of victims as high as 14.
1991 Another serial killer, Jack Entwig also lived in the Cecil Hotel. Because his mother, a special profession, left a shadow of childhood on him, his targets were basically the young lady. He would trick the young lady to the hotel first and then attack him. It is said that the reason he chose the crime location at the Cecil Hotel was because he was a worshiper of the Night Demon.
In addition, dozens of residents have committed suicide in the Cecil Hotel in various ways. You can imagine how bad the security system of this hotel is. But it has a huge advantage, convenient transportation and low price. I think this may be one of the reasons why Lan Keer chose to live here.
html After January 31, Lan Keer, who would have video calls with her family every day, had no news. Some rooms in the Cecil Hotel were flooded that night, and suspected to be blocked by foreign objects. And some tenants said they heard the noise. On the morning of February 19, a guest complained that the water pressure of Cecil Hotel was too low and there was an inexplicable odor in the water. So the hotel sent maintenance personnel to the rooftop water tank to check, and unexpectedly found that Lan Keer was soaked in the water tank naked. And the maintenance staff said that the cover of the water tank was covered at that time. Because the water tank is relatively large, about 3 meters high and has a diameter of 1.37 meters, it can store at least more than 3,000 liters of water. At that time, there were still two-thirds of the water inside, and the body sank at the bottom of the water tank, so the firefighters spent a lot of effort to saw the water tank before catching it up. The news caused quite a lot of panic as the residents of the Cecil Hotel were likely to have used or consumed contaminated water. Fortunately, no pathogenic bacteria were found after the water in the hotel.
However, the reason why this incident can continue to ferment on the Internet is due to the strange surveillance video in the elevator before Lan Keer disappeared. Lan Keer in the elevator behaves strangely, like she had a drug or had some mental illness, but according to insiders, Lan Keer is cheerful and friendly to others, not as if she had a mental illness. Investigators also said that Lan Keer was in normal mental state and no drug residue was detected in her body.
However, the documentary "The Missing Incident of the Cecil Hotel" points out that Lan Keer suffers from severe bipolar disorder and has been taking prescription drugs for bipolar disorder. Investigators also found the drug in Lan Keer's relics, and there was still a lot left, so they speculated that Lan Keer had stopped the drug without authorization before traveling or reduced the dose, which greatly increased the possibility of recurrence. The documentary also confirms this view from multiple aspects. For example, the room where Lan Keer first moved into was actually a multi-person room similar to a youth hostel. Later, she was harassed by her roommate because she was harassed by her roommate. For example, when Lan Keer is sick at home, she will hide under the bed. So Lan Keer in the surveillance video is actually in an onset state.
So why has the elevator door not closed for a long time? This is because there is a door in the elevator that keeps the door open, and once the elevator is pressed, it will remain open for two minutes. This is to facilitate the cleaner to transport the sheets and quilt covers for changing. So the final documentary concluded that Lan Keer became anxious after she became ill, and fled to the rooftop and jumped into the water tank to try to make herself feel safe. After she recovered from her mind, she tried to take off her clothes and reduce weight and swam out of the water. However, because there was only two-thirds of the water in the bucket at that time, she could not reach the edge of the water tank at all, which eventually led to drowning.
So the problem is that the hotel once said that the door leading to the roof is locked and connected to the alarm system. It is difficult for non-hotel insiders to get on the roof. So how did Lan Keer get onto the roof alone without being discovered? The documentary also gave an explanation. There are two ways: one is to pass the fire escape ladder outside the wall, and the other is to pass the window on the left side of the elevator on the 14th floor. Later, investigators followed these two routes to the top floor and found cigarette butts and wine bottles everywhere. It proved on the side that people often climbed up to the top floor like this. As for how the lid of the bucket is covered, the documentary said that it was simply that the investigator accidentally opened the lid and closed it while taking the record.
I don’t know if you feel that your IQ is insulted here. If you can remember such important details incorrectly, are other clues published still credible? I personally think that compared to restoring the truth of the incident, the more important significance of this documentary is to satirize keyboard warriors and those online detectives who only seek excitement but not reality. Because there was an American black metal rock singer named Mobid who was suspected by netizens to be the real murderer, he also became mentally ill and did not receive a single apology in the end. And this documentary has a clear orientation, and all the evidence points to Lan Keer having mental illness. Netizens read it and said, isn’t this the American version of approaching science? Any behavior that cannot be explained can be insanity.
Not to mention Lan Keer is really a mentally ill patient, with prescription drugs in her belongings, and a roommate who was harassed by her as witnesses, then why didn’t the Los Angeles police announce this discovery from the beginning? Isn’t the case closed immediately? Wu Mei, a friend who has known Lan Keer for 12 years, just said that the Lan Keer she saw from the elevator monitor was very different from her usual style. Considering the chaos in the local public security, she seriously suspected that Lan Keer had been drugged.
But I have a different view on this. Looking back at the surveillance video (the complete version of the surveillance video in the elevator can be viewed by myself). Lan Keer's condition was completely normal before entering the elevator, but she was a little exaggerated when she started pressing the floor key. She put her face very close and then pressed all the buttons.In my opinion, this behavior is normal. First of all, from this photo of Lan Keer before her death, we can see that she is wearing glasses and the lenses are quite thick. In other words, Lan Keer is very likely to be highly myopic, and she did not wear glasses the day she entered the elevator, so she got so close to her just to see it clearly. As for why she pressed all the floors, it was because there were people nearby that made her feel uneasy. This is just to confuse the other party and make him not know which floor he is going to.
This reminds me of an experience many years ago. I am a person who loves traveling very much. I have been to many places alone. It is very dangerous for girls to travel alone. The previous video also said that I have met human traffickers. Interested friends can go and watch my other videos. One night, I had just finished visiting Dali Ancient Town and returned to the B&B near . I found a man seemed to be following me all the time. I suddenly became alert, but there were many people around me and I couldn't be sure whether he was on the way or had ulterior motives. So I pretended not to notice him, so I found a roadside stall to sit down and eat. He also found a stall nearby to sit down. I was a little panicked, but at this time I was still not sure whether this was a coincidence.
I picked up the unfinished food and walked towards a hotel next to me that looked more formal. Actually, I didn't live there, but what I didn't expect was that he actually followed me. He was a distance away from me. He walked to the hotel door when the elevator door opened. I thought that there were usually surveillance monitors in the elevator, so I pretended to be calm and walked in. I pressed one floor casually, and after the elevator door closed, I quickly pressed other floors. Every time the elevator door opened, I would stick my head out like Lan Keer to see if there were anyone nearby, and then decide whether to go out. Maybe my behavior seemed very strange to others, but in the end I successfully got rid of that person and returned to my own homestay.
But obviously Lan Keer was not so lucky because she accidentally touched the elevator’s door opening key without seeing clearly. (It may also be that the door-open key was pressed as the door-closing key) caused the elevator to be unable to close as soon as possible, which made her, who was already a little nervous, even more suspicious. She began to doubt whether someone had pressed the elevator outside, but when she stretched out her head, she found that there was no one around. So she returned to the elevator and hid, and this action was obviously because she was afraid that people outside the elevator would see her. But at this time the elevator door was still not closed. She always suspected that there was someone outside the elevator, so she plucked up the courage to walk out of the elevator and started looking around.
Here we can see her jumping out to scare others, as if she was joking with someone, but in my opinion, she was actually plucking herself up for her courage. (The complete surveillance video in the elevator can be viewed by the Lan Keer video version I made) At the same time, I was telling the other party, "Come out quickly, I have discovered you." But there is still no one around, or maybe the person is hiding in a place she can't see. So she stood at the door and began to hesitate whether to return to the elevator. Because there is monitoring in the elevator, it is undoubtedly safer. Finally she chose to go back and pressed all floors again, including keeping the door key open. So the elevator door was still not closed, she began to wonder if the elevator was broken, or maybe she began to be scared.
As for her later series of strange actions, she was more like communicating with people. Imagine when we need to communicate with people in exaggerated body language, and when the language is not communicated. Lan Keer is very fluent in English, which means that if there is really such a person, the other party is most likely from a small language country and his English is not very good.Some netizens once found a personal web page that was suspected to be Lan Keer. The activity trajectory of the web page owner was surprisingly consistent with Lan Keer. A few days before Lan Keer disappeared, on January 27, the web page owner wrote such a passage, "I'm going out tonight, I hope those stalkers with Italian and Mexican nationalities will not get close to me, because they feel like they are capturing me as prey!" If this was really Lan Keer's personal homepage, that is, she had long realized that the danger was approaching her, then whether her seemingly exaggerated and weird movements at that time were warning the other party not to get close to her in the elevator, and then left there alone. Maybe she didn't expect that it was the last time in her life.
There is another doubt in this case, and I believe that what everyone wants to know the most is why Lan Keer appeared naked in the water tank on the top floor in the end. Just because she didn't wear clothes on her body and didn't know where she was going, we can basically confirm that this was not an accident. I mentioned before that there are three ways to get to the roof. It is obviously impossible to climb the window, and the fire ladder exposed to the exterior wall of the hotel cannot perfectly avoid all surveillance and witnesses. In the end, the two or three meters leading to the roof is a straight up and down ladder without fence protection. If you are not careful, you will fall to pieces. Then there is only the staff passage in the hotel. As for the method of entering the water tank, there is a building similar to an elevator machine room next to the four water tanks on the roof. Just climb up this building and you can easily reach the top of the water tank. So it is very likely that Lan Ke'er was thrown in from here.
Finally, Lan Ke'er's clothes were gone. Some people say that it was sucked away by the suction of the water tank. It was nonsense. So was she injured during her lifetime? This depends on the forensic's identification report, but the forensic doctor said that Lan Ke'er had no trauma. However, it is worth noting that there is blood accumulation in the subcutaneous tissue at the anus of the body. Some people claim that this is a manifestation of harm, while others believe that this is a normal phenomenon in the process of corruption and expansion of the body. In addition, the forensic doctor also extracted samples from the internal organs and brain to detect whether there were drug residues, but because the body soaked in water for many days and lost a lot of blood, the samples were insufficient. In other words, it's not that there is no, it's just that it can't be detected. Then Lan Ke'er cannot be ruled out that she was stunned and threw it into the water tank and drowned.
In fact, after interviewing some people, the Los Angeles police identified a Cecil hotel employee as a major suspect. This person holds the key to Lan Keer's room, and in theory, he can enter the room at any time to commit the crime. In addition, the media disclosed that the Cecil Hotel had conducted a water quality inspection on February 14, and everything turned out to be normal. Therefore, the murderer may understand the hotel's management model and the timetable for water quality inspection, deliberately hid Lan Keer's body for two weeks, and then threw Lan Keer into the water tank after the inspection was completed. And as an insider of the hotel, it is very convenient whether it is cleaning the first crime scene or using a cleaning cart to transport Lan Keer's body. Maybe under surveillance, an inconspicuous cleaner, once pushed a cart with Lan Keer's body, and passed by a tenant, but the other party was completely unaware.
So I personally think that the murderer of the Lan Keer incident may not be only one person. They are likely to be an organization and have penetrated into the hotel. Someone once interviewed the hotel manager and asked if there were any rooms here that were clean and never had any cases. And the hotel manager just smiled awkwardly without answering. It is said that about 3,200 missing cases occur every year in Los Angeles, and the security of the neighborhood where the hotel is located is particularly bad, gathering a large number of mentally ill patients and unemployed vagrants, and the average life expectancy of people is only 48 years old.
. Now the Cecil Hotel is still open as usual. Those terrible rumors do not seem to have any negative impact on it. Instead, it has attracted more and more exciting explorers and suspenseful reasoning enthusiasts to come. While we feel sorry for Lan Keer, we should not forget to remind ourselves that safety is the most important thing. I hope the tragedy will never happen again!
is OK. The above are my personal guesses and are for reference only. I hope everyone will think independently and make rational judgments.A edited video and clues that don’t know the truth or falsehood alone cannot explain any problem. The truth may not be as complicated as we imagine. So what are your different opinions on the Lan Keer incident? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss!
