This is a real case that happened to the Chinese in Vancouver, Canada 8 years ago, people have never stopped paying attention, discussing, thinking, its strangeness once became the most bizarre case of this century, even the Chinese detective Li Changyu gave an opinion, this year the police finally restored the causes and consequences of the incident through the documentary, and the conclusions reached can still be justified. Today, we will follow my story to understand this strange case, I hope that netizens will also think about whether this conclusion is reliable?
Lan Ke'er, 21, is a Chinese girl in Vancouver, Canada, who studied psychology at the top three UBC universities in Canada with honors. She mysteriously disappeared on January 31, 2013, after traveling alone to Los Angeles, U.S., and her parents called the police shortly after they disappeared with her.
After receiving the alarm, the police quickly dispatched, and when they learned where Lan Ke'er lived, their hearts sank, and they felt that Lan Ke'er must be more fierce and less auspicious.
So where does Lan Ke'er live? Why the police have an ominous feeling.
The hotel where Lan Ke'er lives in Los Angeles near the slums, has a total of 14 floors, more than 600 rooms, because the low price attracts many tourists, some rooms can accommodate eight people. From the photos online, the hotel lobby is magnificent and the rooms are neat and clean, but this is not the case. Locals smell it and think this hotel is a paradise for crime. In 1947, the hotel's female employees were dismembered and discarded on the side of the road. In 1962, a tenant jumped off a building and killed passers-by, and in 1984 a serial killer was stationed here, and after the police arrested him, he had killed 14 people. In 1991, another serial killer turned the hotel into a base camp. Nearby Homeless Alley is one of the most dangerous areas in the united states, and everything bad that can be found can be found here.
The police quickly arrived at room 506 of the Cecil Hotel where Lan Ke'er lived, the room was messy, but the wallet items were all there, and the luggage was not taken away, and it could be seen that there was nothing unusual.
Police retrieve surveillance footage from hotels. All the surveillance video that the hotel can retrieve is concentrated in the hands of the police, with hundreds of hours of video, and the police are looking for clues in this long and boring video. Time passed slowly by minute by minute, and when the police saw one of the videos, they were stunned and blurted out: Oh my God, this is so abnormal.
Only to see the video of Lan Ke'er looking around in the elevator, the strange elevator door can not be closed, she is sometimes afraid, sometimes quietly peeking outside the elevator door, the back of the video seems to be a pair of invisible hands pinching Lan Ke'er's neck, she rolled her eyes to the ceiling of the elevator to do begging, and finally after the symptoms disappeared, she carefully walked out of the elevator.
In this video, one of the doubts: why is the elevator door open for a long time, and who is controlling the elevator?
Suspicious point two: There seems to be a pair of invisible hands pinching Lan Ke'er's neck.
After the strange incident from the elevator, Lan Ke'er never left the hotel, and the police judged that Lan Ke'er most likely met a bad person in the hotel. The police began a carpet search, not sparing any corners, including the roof of the roof, and used police dogs, and finally the smell of Lan Ke'er disappeared into the fire escape passage on the 5th floor, and there was no gain.
The case was completely in a dead end, and the police had to release the video, hoping that the citizens would provide clues and give them some direction to think.
As soon as the two bizarre videos were released, public opinion was in an uproar, with some netizens saying that Lan Ke'er had taken hallucinogens or been drugged, because this area was a well-known drug trading place, and even some mystics believed that this was a supernatural phenomenon. More people think that Lan Ke'er may have mental problems, because through Lan Ke'er's Weibo content, she has bipolar disorder, what is bipolar disorder, that is, sometimes irritable, sometimes depressed, is a very terrible mental illness. And the police found relevant drugs to treat bipolar disorder from Lan Ke'er's luggage. But more netizens think that the elevator door incident is more strange, it seems that there is a mysterious person in the corner outside the door dead press the elevator, so the door can not be closed, causing Lan Ke'er to look around, seems to see something, behave strangely, and even panic, holding his head and hiding in the corner of the elevator shivering. And the timeline of the video is particularly blurred, and even some knowledgeable network experts found that the video was cut for 53 seconds, they believe that the lost 53 seconds is the key to solving the case, and for a time the hotel staff and the police have become suspicious objects.
At this moment, the incident turned around, 19 days after Lan Ke'er disappeared, and there were complaints from guests that the water pressure in the hotel was too low, and the water flowing out of the water pipe was brown and had a smell. The hotel sent a plumbing maintenance worker to the roof to check the water tank. When the fourth water tank was checked, the person almost did not roll down the stairs, only to see a female body found in the water tank, naked and puffy and deformed. The police quickly arrived, the water tank lid was covered, the body was Lan Ke'er's, Lan Ke'er's clothes sank to the bottom of the water, and the preliminary judgment was that the body had no external injuries. The killer left no trace of the crime.
At this time, the good things of the Internet explorers are not calm, they spontaneously from all over the world, gathered to the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, and the hotel business suddenly skyrocketed. These cyber detectives are starting their own path of exploration, you don't look, they've also found some clues. First of all, they found that the elevator button has a time to open button, this button can make the elevator door open for a long time, according to the hotel, this is to facilitate the use of the cleaner button, which explains that Lan Ke'er's head is on the button, from top to bottom of the random press, may have inadvertently pressed this button, so that the door is open for a long time, and finally they found that the video of Lan Ke'er was located on the 14th floor, she walked out of the elevator door, walked to the left, disappeared, and has never seen her again. They judged that Lan Ke'er most likely climbed from the left-hand window on the 14th floor to the escape stairs outdoors and then to the top floor. Either it is through the stairs of the restaurant to the top floor, but there is an alarm system at the exit, but the hotel has not heard any ringing, so some netizens suspect that it is the hotel staff who did it, because the door that can open the roof of the building only has the key.
The corpse went to the autopsy, in the process of doing the autopsy, all kinds of gossip, all kinds of strange events came out of the Internet, they said that there is a ghost movie in Japan, the dilapidated apartment in the movie, the girl in red clothes, the blood flowing from the water pipe, and finally drowning in the water tank, all coincide with the lan ke'er incident. And what is even more bizarre is that the hotel broke out of tuberculosis shortly after the Lan Ke'er incident, Lan Ke'er's English name is backwards to see the meaning of testing tuberculosis, and the university where Lan Ke'er studied was to study tuberculosis, and for a time conspiracy theories were rampant, some people said that Lan Ke'er was a biological weapon, and was sent to Los Angeles to eliminate these homeless people. Of course, most people do not believe this rumor. Netizens began to flesh all the people who had lived in the Cecil Hotel, at this time a heavy metal musician named Mobid entered everyone's field of vision, because he had released a video of hunting down and killing women, and his lyrics had the words China, girls, drowning words, emotional netizens immediately identified Mobyd as the murderer, but the fact is that although Mobid lived in the Cecil Hotel, but a year earlier than Lan Ke'er, and when the Lan Ke'er incident occurred, Moby De was not in the United States at all, but netizens did not care about these, The voice of the Internet storm Mobid intensified, almost making Mobid unable to survive.
Chinese detective Li Changyu was also questioned by netizens, and Li Li Changyu thought it was murder after careful consideration.
Four months later, the autopsy report finally came out, after pathological testing, Lan Ke'er had not taken hallucinogenic drugs before her death, but there were a very small amount of anti-bipolar drugs, and after forensic calculations, Lan Ke'er's dosage was much smaller than the prescribed dose, which meant that Lan Ke'er was very likely to stop the drug during the journey, resulting in her emotional loss of control
。 Later, the police further confirmed this statement based on the forensic doctor's speculation, for example, when Lan Ke'er first stayed in the hotel, there were two other passengers in her room, she posted abusive notes on their beds and banned them from entering the room, which finally led to complaints from passengers, and the hotel had to transfer her to a separate room, Room 514, for which Lan Ke'er ran to the lobby of the hotel, waving her arms and shouting, I am crazy, Los Angeles is crazy. Lan Ke'er also said in the blog: I hate these pills, I want to cheer up, I need to find a place, find my own motivation. Perhaps this is why Lan Ke'er chose to travel, she wants to find an outlet for her illness. And the most important testimony is that Lan Ke'er's sister also confirmed that her sister had the experience of refusing to take the drug, resulting in persecution paranoia, and the state of the disease was exactly the same as in the elevator monitoring.
Combining all the information, the police concluded that Lan Ke'er's unauthorized drug stopping led to mental disorder, in the confusion of hallucinations that someone was persecuting her, and finally fled to the roof of the building, hid in the water tank, fell into the water and found that something was wrong, in order to save herself, reduce weight, take off her clothes, but eventually unfortunately drowned
The conclusion came out that the netizens were frying pans again, and other than that the water tank was more than three meters high, the lid weighed 9 kilograms, and Lan Ke'er could open the lid by himself to climb in, but it was impossible to cover the lid by itself. In the face of this doubt, the police said that after the investigation, the lid was open when the plumbing repairman inspected the water tank, he was frightened after seeing the body, and inadvertently closed the lid, which Amey also somewhat believed, because when people saw an ominous object, the first reaction would be to subconsciously shield this thing from sight. As for the deleted 53-second video, the police said that the irrelevant segment was deleted to make it easier for everyone to understand what was happening in the elevator.
After 8 years, today's documentary called (Cecil Hotel Disappearance) completely restores the whole picture of the event, and it seems that all the evidence chains and reasoning are quite reasonable.
But there are still questions about how a thin little girl could climb to the top of a building through an outdoor ladder, and why the forensic report was only released four months ago, and why the conclusions of the 27-page report were traced in revision.
But in any case, the case finally settled, no one wanted to expand the situation, and the final result was that the hotel compensated the Lan Ke'er family.
At this point in the story, what Ah Mei wants to say is: The Si people have passed away, let Ke'er rest quietly, may Ke'er have no pain in heaven, no terrible mental illness, and we should be more concerned about the people who are still alive with this disease.