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This hotel's water will make your SKIN CRAWL - · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: How did she manage to bypass the alarm, climb onto
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  Speaker 1: the water tank without the use of a ladder, open
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  Speaker 1: the lid and then wriggle inside of the tank itself
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  Speaker 1: and then shut the lid and then you know, frown.
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  Speaker 2: How did that happen? Hey, what's going on? Guys? Mister
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  Speaker 2: ballin here.
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  Speaker 1: You probably know me from TikTok, hopefully you're starting to
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  Speaker 1: get to know me on YouTube as well. Today we
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  Speaker 1: have a really fascinating mystery. And no, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to be saying that about every single mystery I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think I said that about the last one, the
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  Speaker 1: Dat Love Case one.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't seen that, go check it out. But
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  Speaker 2: this one really is.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably the top five of the most fascinating unsolved
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  Speaker 1: mysteries on the Internet. It's I think the reason is
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  Speaker 1: because there's this video footage, But there's really a remarkable
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  Speaker 1: story around that footage, and that's the story I want
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  Speaker 1: to tell, and that is the case of Alisa Lamb
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  Speaker 1: the too long, Didn't Read version. Alisa is this young, smart,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful college student. She makes it to Los.
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  Speaker 2: Angeles and then she disappears.
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  Speaker 1: She was found dead in this water tank on the
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  Speaker 1: roof of the sketchy hotel, and there's video footage of
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  Speaker 1: her right before she winds up in the water tank, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is just totally bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: Alisa Lamb was the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She was
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  Speaker 1: born in nineteen ninety one in Canada. She was an
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  Speaker 1: avid blogger. She was very into fashion. She also was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with some mental health issues. She had been diagnosed
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  Speaker 1: as having bipolar disorder. She had also been diagnosed as
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  Speaker 1: having depression. Even though her family initially was very close
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  Speaker 1: hold about detailing anything about her mental health struggles, they
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  Speaker 1: had never seen any suicide attempts or any suicidal ideations.
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  Speaker 1: On January thirteenth, twenty thirteen, Alisa Lamb posted that she
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  Speaker 1: had just purchased her tickets to travel to.
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  Speaker 2: San Diego, then on to Los Angeles, Santa.
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  Speaker 1: Cruz, and then onto San Francisco. She was calling this
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  Speaker 1: her West Coast tour. So she heads off on this tour.
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  Speaker 1: She goes to San Diego and then she takes an
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  Speaker 1: Amtrak train up to Los Angeles, and so she arrives
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles on January twenty sixth Then she checks
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  Speaker 1: into this notoriously sketchy hotel. Called the Cecil Hotel, which
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  Speaker 1: is actually located right near skid Row in La so
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  Speaker 1: it's a large homeless population, very high crime rate, and
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  Speaker 1: in fact, the Cecil Hotel itself, in addition to being
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  Speaker 1: located in a pretty seedy area, it had a fairly
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  Speaker 1: macob history itself. It was actually famously associated with the
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  Speaker 1: Black Dahlia murder, where the victim had actually been at
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  Speaker 1: the bar inside of the Cecil Hotel before she vanished,
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  Speaker 1: and then including the Black Dahlia, there were fifteen other
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  Speaker 1: non natural depths associated with the Cecil Hotel ever since
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  Speaker 1: it was built in the nineteen twenties, and you would
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  Speaker 1: think that it would have been condemned, but in fact
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  Speaker 1: LA has made it a landmark right now, so it's kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of protected the hotel itself, but either way.
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  Speaker 1: She checks into the Cecil Hotel on January twenty sixth,
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  Speaker 1: and initially she's put into a shared hostel style room
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  Speaker 1: with some other tourists in the area, but it would
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  Speaker 1: come out in the investigation that she actually had to
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  Speaker 1: be moved out of that room due to the complaints
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  Speaker 1: of her roommates that said she was acting very odd
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  Speaker 1: and so they moved her to.
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  Speaker 2: A private room.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Alisa was traveling alone, and if you combine that
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  Speaker 1: with the fact that she was dealing with some mental
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  Speaker 1: health issues, her parents were very nervous about this trip,
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  Speaker 1: and so they had made this deal that in order
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  Speaker 1: for her to do this West coast swing on her own,
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  Speaker 1: that she would need to check in with them every
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  Speaker 1: single night, and so she was doing that. So she
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  Speaker 1: takes off through San Diego, she checks into Cecil Hotel.
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  Speaker 1: She's checking in with them every night. But on January
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  Speaker 1: thirty first, which was the day she was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: check out of the Cecil Hotel, she went silent and
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  Speaker 1: her parents, who were all over this immediately, were very
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  Speaker 1: concerned and they called the Los Angeles Police Department. The
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  Speaker 1: police acted very quickly on this case. They descended on
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  Speaker 1: the Cecil Hotel. They started looking everywhere. They interviewed hotel staff,
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  Speaker 1: they interviewed local businesses. I mean, they plass sort of
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  Speaker 1: picture everywhere, and they couldn't find her. The hotel staff
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  Speaker 1: they said that, you know, we saw Alisa, and they
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  Speaker 1: did mention that she had been moved from the share
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  Speaker 1: room to her own room, but that any interaction she
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  Speaker 1: had had with staff, which weren't there. Weren't that many
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  Speaker 1: was She was minding her own business. She was by herself,
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  Speaker 1: and she's in a totally normal guest of the hotel.
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  Speaker 2: There was a business owner, she owned.
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  Speaker 1: A bookstore called the Last Bookstore, kind of ironic, who
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  Speaker 1: saw Alisa Lamb. She was one of the last people
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  Speaker 1: to see Alisa, and she said that she was there
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  Speaker 1: purchasing gifts, clearly for her family, you know, little trinkets
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  Speaker 1: to kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Memorialize her trip through through LA. But that was it.
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  Speaker 1: And so despite the massive, you know, attempts to find her,
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  Speaker 1: and this case had also gained quite a bit of
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  Speaker 1: media attention, not just in LA but internationally. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this was all the way back in China, where our
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  Speaker 1: family was from. I mean, this was making headlines everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Despite all of that, no one could find Alisa.
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  Speaker 2: Then the police were given.
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  Speaker 1: Footage of Alisa in the elevator, and the police released that.
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  Speaker 2: Footage to the public and it pretty much immediately went viral.
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  Speaker 1: No one can make sense of what the heck Alisa
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  Speaker 1: is doing in the elevator. She gets into the elevator,
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  Speaker 1: she proceeds to press all of the buttons and then
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  Speaker 1: hides in the corner of the elevator, and then she
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  Speaker 1: starts poking her head in and out into the hallway
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  Speaker 1: as if she's looking for someone. And then eventually she
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  Speaker 1: kind of gets into the threshold of the elevator and
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  Speaker 1: starts moving her hands around kind of crazily like she's
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  Speaker 1: either talking to someone or I mean, it really looks
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  Speaker 1: like she's hallucinating or something. It's very bizarre hand gestures.
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  Speaker 1: And then she disappears, and that the last footage we
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  Speaker 1: have of her live. And what's even stranger is probably
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  Speaker 1: right after this video is taken, she goes to the
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  Speaker 1: rooftop by her own will or someone.
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  Speaker 2: Made her go there, and she dies.
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  Speaker 1: So we're looking at the last few moments of Elisa's
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  Speaker 1: life now. The footage, despite its virality and despite how
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  Speaker 1: much more attention this gave the case, it didn't actually
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  Speaker 1: provide any big breaks because the footage just captures this
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  Speaker 1: woman who seems kind of disturbed on the elevator. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't give away really anything that actually happened to her.
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  Speaker 1: But after the release of that video, over the course
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  Speaker 1: of the next two weeks, guests of the Cecil hotel
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  Speaker 1: started complaining about low water pressure as well as a
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  Speaker 1: foul taste in the water. In fact, one of the
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  Speaker 1: guests even said that the water when she turned it
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  Speaker 1: on had come out black before clearing, and then it
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  Speaker 1: was clear water, but then the water had a foul
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  Speaker 1: taste to it. On February nineteenth, so this is now
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  Speaker 1: two weeks after her disappearance and now following all of
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  Speaker 1: these complaints about the water. Santiago Lopez was a maintenance
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  Speaker 1: worker for the Cecile Hotel. He goes up to the
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  Speaker 1: roof and he goes to check on the water. He
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  Speaker 1: opens up the water tank to see what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and they're lying in the water is the body of
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  Speaker 1: Elisa Lamb. So a couple things about the water tank itself.
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  Speaker 1: So it's on the roof of the hotel, and in
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  Speaker 1: order to get onto the roof, you would have to
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  Speaker 1: go through a door that has an alarm sets You'd
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  Speaker 1: have to know the alarm code, because if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: and you triggered the alarm, I mean, it.
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  Speaker 2: Goes off across the whole hotel.
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  Speaker 1: I mean someone would have heard this alarm or you
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  Speaker 1: could have, I guess, taken the fire escape. But that's
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  Speaker 1: a fairly obvious thing. And someone would have noticed that.
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  Speaker 1: No one claimed to have seen her taking the fire
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  Speaker 1: escape up to the roof. Then let's assume you've made
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  Speaker 1: it on the roof somehow, either by knowing the code
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  Speaker 1: to the door or using the fire escape. The tank,
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  Speaker 1: which is this four foot tall tank, is actually ten
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  Speaker 1: feet off the ground, and in order to get to
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  Speaker 1: the tank itself, you would need to use a ladder,
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  Speaker 1: and there.
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  Speaker 2: Weren't any ladders present.
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  Speaker 1: There's no ladders anywhere, right, But so even if you
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  Speaker 1: managed to climb onto the tank, you know without the
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  Speaker 1: use of a ladder, there are these heavy lids on
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  Speaker 1: the surface of these tanks. I mean, the hotel doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want people getting into the drinking water, so it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: well guarded. If you could get the tank to I
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  Speaker 1: think it actually slides off.
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  Speaker 2: The opening to the tank.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't particularly large, so you'd have to wriggle your way
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  Speaker 1: into the tank, and then once you're in, it would
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  Speaker 1: be nearly impossible to shut the tank again. And the
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  Speaker 1: tank was shut when they found it when Santiago Lopez
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  Speaker 1: went up there. The latch to the lid was undone,
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  Speaker 1: but the lid was covering the tank. So how did
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  Speaker 1: she manage to bypass the alarm, climb onto the water
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  Speaker 1: tank without the use of a ladder, open the lid,
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  Speaker 1: and then wriggle inside of the tank itself and then
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  Speaker 1: shut the lid, and then you know, frown.
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  Speaker 2: How did that happen?
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  Speaker 1: Because her body had decomposed significantly, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: fairly difficult to run any sort of forensic testing to
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  Speaker 1: see what the heck happened to her, But the coroner
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  Speaker 1: was able to determine that this was an accidental drowning.
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  Speaker 1: As improbable as that sounds, that's what the coroner's report indicated.
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  Speaker 1: Amateur and professional sleuths alike are fairly divided on what
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  Speaker 1: actually happened to Alisa. You know, some say that if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the odd behavior complaints that have been
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  Speaker 1: made against Alisa by her roommates that first night at
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  Speaker 1: the Cecil Hotel when they had to move her to
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  Speaker 1: her own room, people point to that as you know,
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  Speaker 1: indicative of someone who had a sort of psychotic break,
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  Speaker 1: and that you know, the footage of her in the
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  Speaker 1: elevator was just someone having a manic episode, and that
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  Speaker 1: that's what caused all of this. And there's a fairly
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  Speaker 1: large contingent of people who believe that Others say Lisa
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  Speaker 1: just committed suicide, that even though it was a complicated suicide,
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  Speaker 1: it was suicide nonetheless. And of course, because this is
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  Speaker 1: a very high profile UNSIE case, there are theories about
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  Speaker 1: this being you know, somehow connected to the paranormal or
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  Speaker 1: ghosts or any number of theory. But the bottom line is,
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  Speaker 1: despite knowing the who, what, where, and when, and having
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  Speaker 1: footage and timelines, we just don't know the why.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing that most people investigating this case can.
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  Speaker 1: Agree on is they really want the Corners report to
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  Speaker 1: be re examined, not because there was negligence or something,
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  Speaker 1: but because there just there has to be something else there.
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  Speaker 1: This can't have just been another accidental drowning when just
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances surrounding her death are so bizarre and just
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  Speaker 1: the likelihood of.
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  Speaker 2: Her being able to get onto the roof and up.
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  Speaker 1: Into that water tank without help is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: far fetched. And so you know, unfortunately that hasn't happened,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, for her parents, unfortunately there's probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to be closure anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: So that's going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: all so much and I'll talk to you guys sin
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  Speaker 1: Balt case. There are theories about this being somehow connected
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  Speaker 1: to the paranormal, or ghosts or any number of theory,
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  Speaker 1: but the bottom line is despite knowing the who, what, where,
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  Speaker 1: and when, and having footage and timelines, we just don't
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  Speaker 1: know the why. The one thing that most people investigating
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  Speaker 1: this case can agree on is they really want the
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  Speaker 1: Corners report to be re examined, not because there was
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  Speaker 1: negligence or something, but because there has to be something
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  Speaker 1: else there. This can't have just been another accidental drowning
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  Speaker 1: when just the circumstances surrounding her death are so bizarre,
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  Speaker 1: are and just the likelihood of her being able to
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  Speaker 1: get onto the roof and up into that water tank
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  Speaker 1: without help is a little bit far fetched, and so
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  Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately that hasn't happened, and you know, for
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  Speaker 1: her parents, unfortunately there's probably not going to be closure
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: So that's going to do it.
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