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The Last Four Minutes: Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel Mystery

The Last Four Minutes: The Elisa Lam Cecil Hotel Elevator Mystery

A twenty-one-year-old student steps into a hotel elevator just after midnight, and the doors refuse to close. Why did Elisa Lam press every button, hide in the corner, and gesture to someone the camera never shows? How did she end up inside a rooftop water tank that police had walked right past during their search? And why did millions of people decide a ghost was more believable than the truth sitting in the coroner's file?

In this episode, we follow Elisa Lam from her home in Vancouver to the Cecil Hotel on Los Angeles' Skid…

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