<P> In addition to suicides, the Cecil's history includes other kinds of violence and salacious happenings . It also became a notorious rendezvous spot for adulterous couples, drug activity and prostitution . In 1947 Elizabeth Short, dubbed by the media as the Black Dahlia, was rumored to have been spotted drinking at the Cecil's bar in the days before her notorious and, to date, unsolved murder . </P> <P> In 1964 a retired telephone operator named "Pigeon Goldie" Osgood, who had been a well known and well liked long - term resident at the hotel, was found dead in her room . She had been raped, stabbed and beaten, and her room ransacked . A man named Jacques B. Ehlinger was charged with Osgood's murder, but he was later cleared; her death remains unsolved . </P> <P> Perhaps most infamously, in the 1980s the hotel was rumored to be the residence of serial killer Richard Ramirez, nicknamed the "Night Stalker ." Ramirez had been a regular presence on the skid row area of Los Angeles, but, according to a hotel clerk who claims to have spoken to him, is rumored to have stayed at the Cecil for a few weeks . Ramirez may have engaged in part of his killing spree while staying there . Another serial killer, Austrian Jack Unterweger, stayed at the Cecil in 1991, possibly as an homage to Ramirez . While there, he strangled and killed at least three prostitutes, for which he was convicted in Austria . He hanged himself shortly after his conviction . </P> <P> In 2013 the Cecil (by then re-branded as the "Stay on Main") became the focus of renewed attention when surveillance footage of a young Canadian student, Elisa Lam, behaving erratically in the hotel's elevator went viral . The video depicts Lam repeatedly pressing the elevator's buttons, walking in and out of the elevator, and possibly attempting to hide from someone . It was recorded shortly before her disappearance; her naked body was subsequently discovered in a water supply cistern on the hotel roof, following complaints from residents of odd - tasting water and low pressure . Why and how she got into a cistern, which was atop the roof and could only be accessed by taking a stairway to the roof and then climbing a ladder to the tank's covered top, remain a mystery . The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled her death accidental due to drowning, with bipolar disorder being a "significant" factor . </P>

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