Gone at Midnight by Jake Anderson

Author:Jake Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2020-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

NEW SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE

Websleuths asked why there was no additional surveillance from the lobby, other hallways, the sidewalk outside the hotel, all of which are surveilled?

If it was important for us to see a grainy, pixelated video of Elisa in the elevator that night, why was it not important for us to see other footage of her?

It turned out there was additional footage, which Tennelle corroborated with a disturbing new disclosure that poured gasoline on the websleuth forums.

“We did see her come in with two gentlemen. She had—they had a box, gave it to her,” he said. “She went up into her—to the elevator. We never saw them again on video.”

Who were these two men? How did they know Elisa? Were they questioned by the police?

Maybe they took her to dinner and the box was leftovers. Did they see her again?

I called the hotel and asked to speak to Amy Price, the general manager.

“Hello, Ms. Price. I hope you’re having a lovely day. I wanted to speak with you about the Elisa Lam case. I understand that this must be a sensitive issue but now that the civil case is over, would you be able to answer a couple of questions?”

“No comment,” she said.

“In all likelihood, the hotel was not responsible for Elisa’s death and all the conspiracy theories are wrong. If you simply cleared up a couple of issues, I think it would go a long way.”

“No comment.”

“Can you comment on why you have no comment?”

“No . . . I mean, no comment.”

I called back a few minutes later and assumed a slightly different voice. I asked the front desk manager whether the hotel was hiring.

“I don’t think so,” she said. “The hotel is actually about to close for renovations.”

The grin I wore at the thought of infiltrating the hotel as a bellhop instantaneously turned into a horrified grimace. Aw no, aw no, I looked it up and sure enough the Cecil Hotel was slated to close indefinitely for renovations.

If we were going to make a documentary about the case, we needed footage from inside the hotel. And we had, uh, one week to trebuchet our asses down there and get it.

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