In 2013, Lan Ke'er's strange video in the elevator went viral. The case is boiling over, and the outside world is full of opinions, and it is still an "unsolved mystery" to this day. Someone mentioned her name, and it was creepy - some people were full of questions, curious about "did you catch the murderer"——
Yes, although the police closed the case with "suicide", but around Lan Ke'er is suicide? Or murder? It's still debated. What really happened before she died? The case has been bizarre, and people have speculated and reasoned for 8 years. And just recently, a new documentary released by Netflix revealed a lot of evidentiary details for the first time, and the truth is about to surface - "Crime Scene: The Disappearance of Cecil Hotel"
Frankly speaking, in terms of the quality of the preparation, this film can only be regarded as average in the works produced by Netflix. Even some viewers gave bad reviews after watching it. After all, what could have been explained in 90 minutes was divided into 4 episodes, and one episode took 50 minutes. If this is the case, why should the factory director recommend it? Because it has material. First, the film is a very complete and meticulous restoration of the case, including the hotel, the police, hotel guests, the media, ordinary people, public opinion and so on.
Second, it contains clear video recordings related to the case, case handling records, witnessing on-site testimony, and the process of detective reasoning. In addition to having a clear understanding of the causes and consequences of Lan Ke'er, it can even subvert your view of the case and cause people to think deeply.
1 Turn back the clock back at the time of the crime, Lan Ke'er was traveling alone in Los Angeles. Along the way, she checked into a hotel called Cecil. According to her custom, she would contact her parents by video every day, but on February 1, she disappeared without a trace. There was no telephone, and the procedures for returning the hotel room on the same day were not processed.
After calling the police, the police urgently set up a special investigation team. When I opened Lan Ke'er's hotel room, I found that her stuff stalls were everywhere, and her passports, computers, medicines and other necessary items were left in the room. So where did she go?
With the deepening of the investigation, the police judged through the monitoring equipment inside the hotel that Lan Ke'er was still in the hotel. Moreover, the surveillance in this elevator is the last image she left before she disappeared. This period of surveillance swept from the United States to China that year, only because the blue kerr on the screen was too unusual. She was alone in the elevator, but she was in a state of panic. From time to time, the body is stretched out of the elevator and looked back and forth;
Sometimes curled up in the corner of the elevator, dodging something;
Sometimes he stood outside the elevator, making inexplicable movements in his hands.
Even stranger, such as why Lan Ke'er pressed all floors, and why the elevator door did not automatically close for up to 2 minutes after Lan Ke'er left. The case is foggy and there is so much that cannot be explained. Police conducted a carpet search of about 700 rooms in the hotel, sent police dogs to sniff every space that Lan Ke'er might have stayed in, and then added air support teams to survey the roof and exterior of the building. Unfortunately, nothing was found.
Until nearly a month later, some guests in the hotel reported that the water pressure in the room was too low, and the water flowing out of the water pipe had a strange brown smell. To do this, the manager went to the water tank on the roof to check the reason. Who knows, looking inside, there is a naked female corpse floating in the water.
According to eyewitness accounts, the body was facing upwards, pale in color, rotting and emitting a foul odor. Obviously, she is Lan Ke'er. At this point, the direction of the case became more and more psychedelic - the door on the roof was closed, how did she get up, and why was she in the water tank? And the lid of the water tank is closed, if it is suicide, this operation is simply counterintuitive.
However, if it was murder, the autopsy results showed that the body did not have any skin trauma and no traces of sexual assault.
The case seemed to have reached a dead end, and the police began to seek help from the society. however...... They could not have imagined that this move had triggered a national carnival of "blood". 2 Everyone has a curious mentality, regardless of borders. On the other side of the ocean, we can only come to a "brainstorming" and have been addicted; in the United States, many people have personally participated in it.
Speaking of which, I have to popularize the background of the Cecil Hotel. This hotel is arguably the most mysterious in the world, and the once-sensational black dahlia takes place here. For years, there has been a mix of fish and dragons here, killing people, prostituting, taking drugs... Everybody has it. Therefore, the background of the hotel, coupled with the mysterious surveillance of Lan Ke'er, has stimulated the keen interest of the audience and made it more firm in the fact that she was murdered.
Suddenly, Cecil hotel reservations were hot, and many "detectives" and "criminal investigation enthusiasts" in society went to the field. There are those who really want to help solve the case, and there are also those who rub the heat to join in the fun. There are many Internet celebrities and video bloggers, holding up cameras, according to the trajectory of the disclosed Lan Ke'er.
That scene left people speechless. However, in a good eye, they also seem to provide a lot of ideas and solve many mysteries for the public. For example, some people found that the reason why the elevator in the monitoring is open for a long time is because Lan Ke'er pressed a special button;
Another example is the floor where Lan Ke'er disappeared, which is 14 floors. The top 14 floors are the top floor. In addition, the access to the top floor is not only an internal staircase, but also a fire ladder outside the building.
However, the more clues, the more complex it becomes. What are the facts? 3 Although even detective Li Changyu was once certain that Lan Ke'er died of murder, the documentary tells the world that many times it is "preconceived". Outside public opinion clung to the "weird video", but no one paid attention to the serious inspection report. In fact, Lan Ke'er suffers from bipolar disorder.
According to her family's statement, Lan Ke'er has been suffering from illness in recent years and has been trying to receive treatment. The long and slow healing process has made her miserable, which can be detected through her outspokenness on social platforms.
Perhaps she wanted to escape from such a life for a while, so she came up with plans to travel alone. The autopsy results showed that Lan Ke'er did not use drugs and drink alcohol, and she still had a certain prescription drug component in her body. The drug levels were low, which meant she was reducing or stopping taking her medication before the crime.
And this is also a contraindication to the disease. Once there is no drug control, the condition will be repeated, depression and restlessness, insomnia, and severe auditory hallucinations, hallucinations, panic and other reactions. Some netizens shared their experiences, and she had the urge to hide in the water during the seizure.
According to the recollection of the hotel staff, Lan Ke'er did show something different from ordinary people before his death. She used to be in the lobby with her arms outstretched and frantically shouting "I'm crazy, but Los Angeles is crazy too." Unfortunately, due to the "clutter" of the Cecil Hotel, she was not noticed at all.
From all of the above, combined with her reaction in the surveillance, it is closer to the conclusion of "suicide".
Seeing this, some people may have noticed that the previous article did not say that when the body was found, the water tank door was closed, and the clothes on the body were peeled off. How does this explain? In fact, in many drowning cases, the deceased's clothes have fallen off, and it is not excluded that the parties in the process of struggling to survive, in order to reduce weight, take off their clothes.
As for the water tank door, few people know that this is a mistake by the police. In fact, eyewitness accounts were that the tank door was open, but there was an error in the record. In addition, the police also have a fatal place is that they went to the roof of the building during the search, but did not check the water tank and other places in detail.
Judging from the current investigation of clues, the truth of the case is roughly like this. Some people may say, that's it? It is too simple to hide the disappointment. In fact, this is also the feeling of most viewers after watching this documentary, and they feel that there are too few exciting places and not mysterious enough. In this regard, the director of the factory said that his mood was understandable, but he also felt sad. I remember that the film also interviewed mobid, a heavy metal rock singer who published songs related to Lan Ke'er.
Because of the dark style of the song, the lyrics suggest that Lan Ke'er was murdered, and he was surrounded by the whole network, which ruined his career as a singer. It is undeniable that his behavior is inappropriate, but at the same time, he is also a victim of public opinion. Netizens take it for granted that his music is full of violence and blood, which is equivalent to him being a murderer, which is really funny.
Yeah, as one of the people said — I think people want a lurking monster to come into the hotel and grab her and throw her into the tank; because that's what everybody's expecting.
In their eyes, a hot chase is enough, and the more exciting and crazy the better. They participate wholeheartedly, crazy brain supplements, and have the courage to find out the real culprit, which is nothing more than the banner of "Lan Ke'er", a kind of unilateral self-satisfaction. Speculation is necessary, but it is not unreasonable. "Overwatching" is, to some extent, a disguised blasphemy against life.