Good morning and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Monday, Aug. 28. When the historic Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles opened 600 rooms for unhoused people, its private ...

The death of Elisa Lam in February 2013 is the basis of Netflix's new true crime doc, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which explores the various conspiracy theories surrounding her ...

Joe Berlinger takes a four-hour look at the disappearance of Elisa Lam and its ties to a notorious downtown Los Angeles hotel in this Netflix docuseries. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Los ...

Netflix's new docuseries Crime Scene largely focuses on the mysterious 2013 death of Elisa Lam, but at the heart of the case is the creepy hotel where she vanished: the Cecil, which is located in ...

A notorious hotel in Downtown Los Angeles is being reborn as housing for Angelenos struggling with homelessness. The Cecil Hotel is infamous for a string of gruesome and often mysterious deaths since ...

The Cecil Hotel is the subject of a new Netflix true crime series. Netflix The infamous Cecil Hotel is the focus of a new Netflix true-crime series, premiering February 10. The show focuses on the ...

Netlfix's latest true-crime docuseries Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel focuses on the 2013 case of Elisa Lam, a college student who went missing while visiting Los Angeles. The last ...

Check-in at the Cecil Hotel had to wait a few minutes because Kerri Torrance, the clerk working the graveyard shift one night in November, had to deal with a heist. A man staying on the 10th floor had ...

The Cecil Hotel has a wild history, one plagued with drug overdoses, murders, suicides, abuse and more horrific stories. It once served as the hideout for notorious killers, like serial killer Richard ...

Health officials in Los Angeles have issued a do-not-drink order on the water at Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel after a missing tourist was found dead inside the building's water tank. Yes, there's a very ...