Amy Price Managed The Cecil Hotel. This is What She Saw.

On a February morning in 2013, guests at the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles complained of brown, foul-tasting water. What the maintenance team discovered on the rooftop would spark a global internet frenzy - the body of 21-year-old Elisa Lam inside the hotel's water tank. In the days leading up to her disappearance, Elisa was captured on the hotel’s elevator CCTV behaving erratically. The now-viral footage has since fuelled endless theories, speculation, and conspiracy. But for those who worked inside the walls of the Cecil, Elisa’s case wasn’t unusual. The hotel had a long, dark history of death, violence, murder and tragedy. This week on True Crime Conversations, host Claire Murphy speaks with the Cecil Hotel's former manager, Amy Price who lived through the sheer horror and chaos. From eerie theories to the realities of running a place with such a dark history, Amy shares what it was like inside the hotel when one of the internet's most enduring mysteries unfolded. If any of the contents in this episode has caused distress, there is help available via Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636. Timestamps 00:00 - A Grim Discovery in the Cecil Hotel Water Tank 01:42 - Who Was 21-Year-Old Elisa Lam? 02:25 - The Chilling Elevator Footage That Went Viral 04:07 - Interview with Amy Price, Former Cecil Hotel Manager 07:12 - "A lot of people die inside the Cecil Hotel" 11:25 - What Skid Row Was Really Like Outside The Hotel 18:22 - Dealing with Suicides and Grieving Families 27:20 - Did The Night Stalker Really Stay at The Cecil? 29:22 - The Elisa Lam Case: A Manager's Perspective 37:06 - The Moment Elisa Lam's Body Was Found 42:50 - What Elisa's Final Moments Were Likely Like 47:17 - The Netflix Documentary & Vicious Online Hate