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On February 19, 2013, at the Cecil Hotel in the United States, a guest called to report that the water pressure at the hotel was too low and that the water had an inexplicable smell.
So the hotel sent maintenance personnel to the guest room to check, open the faucet only a small amount of water dripping down, and the water is brown and yellow turbid.
Maintenance personnel suspected that the water tank on the roof of the building was out of water or blocked by something. Because the water circulation of the entire hotel depends on these 4 water tanks.
So I went to the water tank on the roof to check. I opened the lid of the water tank and almost didn't scare myself down, but I found a corpse in the tank.
The body was completely naked, feet up and down, planted at the bottom of the tank in an unusually twisted manner.
The maintenance staff stumbled to the manager's office, gasping for breath, "Manager, we have ... There are..... corpses".
When the manager listened, his face turned pale with fright, and the two keywords of the water tank and the corpse in his mind were constantly wandering.
The water in the water tank supplies the water of the entire hotel, which is not the water for the guests to drink, and the water for bathing is all water soaked in corpses.
Thinking of this, a pang of nausea and trepidation.
In the early morning, the police and firefighters arrived.
Because the water tank was nearly 3 meters high, the police and fire departments spent a lot of effort to saw open the water tank before retrieving the body.
The body was identified by the police as Lan Ke'er, who mysteriously disappeared on January 31, 18 days after his death.
What made her most mysterious death was the strange video of Lan Ke'er in the elevator on the night of Lan Ke'er's disappearance released on February 13 after the Los Angeles police searched for Lan Ke'er's whereabouts for many days without success.
In the video, Lan Ke'er wears a red casual suit and a short black skirt, and walks into the hotel elevator alone with slippers.
As soon as he entered the elevator, he made a very abnormal move, pressing the buttons on each floor. However, the elevator door was not closed. Lan Ke'er stuck her head out to look left and right, and then quickly retracted back into the elevator. Then come in again and stand next to the elevator button, and then go back and forth into the elevator several times. The elevator door remained open during this time, and she stepped out of the elevator again.
At this time, a strange scene appeared, and she seemed to be arguing with others fiercely compared to various strange and exaggerated gestures outside.
After returning to the elevator, she pressed all the floors of the elevator again, the elevator door was still not closed, she walked to the corridor again, her hands were constantly swinging exaggerated, terrifying and strange.
At the end of the video, she disappears into view on the left side of the camera.
After the video of Lan Ke'er's elevator was discovered, it spread rapidly, because the series of strange actions made by Lan Ke'er in the elevator also cast a layer of supernatural color on the case.
The Los Angeles forensic doctor announced the results of the autopsy on June 20, and Lan Ke'er ruled out the possibility of his killing, accidentally drowned, and believed that Lan Ke'er suffered from bipolar disorder according to his pre-life behavior, which was the main cause of his death. But according to the descriptions of friends with whom she had been with her for more than a decade, she never behaved abnormally.
But the results still did not address the public's doubts.
For a time, there were many opinions, and the case also became an unsolved case, triggering a series of speculations.
Coupled with the history of the Cecil Hotel where Lan Ke'er stayed, it also adds to the mystery of the case.
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Len studied at the University of British Columbia. Lan Ke'er's parents opened a restaurant in Canada, and the family lived a simple and rich life.
On January 28, 2013, 21-year-old Chinese Canadian girl Lan Ke'er traveled alone to Los Angeles, USA, and stayed in Room 506 of the Cecil Hotel in the city center.
The Cecil Hotel is located in the city center, its security management is very chaotic, and it has also gained the name of a gathering place for gangsters and hooligans. There have been many suicides and homicides in the hotel's history, and several notorious serial killers have lived here.
However, due to its cheap price and convenient location, there are still many people staying.
The room in which Lankle stayed is a room divided into bunk beds for female guests. According to the original plan, Lan Ke'er would stay here for 4 days. But on February 1, Lan Ke'er should have checked out, but she mysteriously disappeared, but her laptop, passport and other belongings were in the room.
And before, Lan Ke'er would have video contact with her family every day, but after Talking to her family after January 31, there was no news.
After calling the police, the Los Angeles police first suspected whether they had been kidnapped, after all, there had been many cases in the Cecil Hotel where Lan Ke'er lived, and the surrounding area was mixed.
Then the police began to search for The whereabouts of Lan Ke'er, rummaging through the Cecil Hotel, even the closets and lockers. Even police dogs and helicopters were called in to search the roof of the building. But there is no way to find the missing Lan Ke'er.
Can a big living person still disappear out of thin air?
Where did Lan Ke'er go?
Until a guest found that the water in the hotel was abnormal, the maintenance personnel went to the water tank on the roof to check that the missing Lan Ke'er was found.
After the forensic on-site judgment, Lan Ke'er did not have any trauma or internal injuries and the basis for poisoning.
The forensic doctor also gave Lan Ke'er a toxicological test to see if she had taken bad drugs.
But it will take a few weeks for the results to be produced.
If the authorities don't give them the answers they want, the people will naturally look for the truth.
As a result, some bold "adventure masters" and "cyber detectives" began to act.
But they helped the police solve one mystery after another.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="112" >1. Why is the door in the elevator always open? </h1>
Some netizens went to the elevator where Lan Ke'er was at the time and restored the scene. On the button in the middle of the elevator is written "Keep the door open". This button is a function that is set for easy handling.
After pressing, the elevator will remain open for 2 minutes.
In the video, she presses a middle row of buttons. The first button lit up, but after her fingers left, the key light went out. This only means that she was on that floor at the time. According to the order of the keys shown in the video, Lan Ke'er is on the 14th floor.
Further up, there is the rooftop. Therefore, the possibility of Lan Ke'er going to the rooftop is extremely high.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="111" >2, What is the explanation for Lan Ke'er's series of strange actions in the elevator? </h1>
The series of actions made by Lan Ke'er in the elevator are indeed exaggerated, and the official answer is bipolar disorder.
What are the characteristics of people with bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder, also known as "bipolar disorder", is divided into two stages, the first stage is the hyperactivity period, also known as the manic period, and the second stage is the depression period.
In the period of excitement, it is full of energy and its emotions are high. In the depressed period, the mood is very low, often sullen and unhappy.
Severe cases may hallucinate, produce violent or self-injurious behavior in hallucinations, and sometimes perform incomprehensible behaviors and actions.
Why did the police give such a definitive conclusion about bipolar disorder?
In addition to the common items such as his room card left in the hotel room, Lan Ke'er also had the prescription drugs he usually took.
Lan Keer's final pathological report showed that there were indeed drugs to treat bipolar disorder, but the test results showed that the drug composition was very low.
And the hotel room Lan Ke'er left a lot of medicine. Extrapolating from the date of the prescription, there should not be so much left. So Lan Ke'er stopped taking the medicine at that time.
When emotions are under the control of drugs, even a single dose of medication can have extremely serious consequences.
Lan Ke'er's social network before his death also recorded some of his low and sad emotional language. Something like "I've been in bed for two days, hating myself, it's a static state that disappoints me." "I can't control my emotions. I'll be angry for two minutes and then sad again. I'll be happy for half an hour and then repeat. ”
At that time, after Lan Ke'er stopped taking drugs for a period of time, there was no influence of the drug, her mood had become abnormal, and her behavior began to be uncontrolled.
According to the hotel manager, within a few days of staying at the hotel, she once rushed to the lobby and shouted "I'm crazy, Los Angeles is crazy." It's just that in the crowded and mixed Cecil Hotel, no one cares too much.
Emotionally out of control, she went to the rooftop alone, trying to find a hidden place to hide. So I chose the water tank and jumped in. After struggling in the water for a few moments, she began to wake up, but then she found herself unable to get out.
She struggled harder and harder, but in the end she couldn't get up.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="110" >3, as to why they were found without clothes, and the clothes were found at the bottom of the tank? </h1>
Perhaps, as the results of the analysis of the US police, it is possible that in the struggle to reduce the burden and swim better in this way. It is also possible to blur one's consciousness while struggling in the water, and thus make this move.
Then some people will ask, according to this statement, how did she climb up the 3-meter-high water tank without a ladder and cover the water tank lid?
The water tank is indeed very high, and it is indeed impossible to climb up without a ladder with a height of 1.6 meters. But there is a straight ladder behind the tank to reach the roof next to the tank. If you first follow the straight ladder to the roof, you can jump from the roof to any of the tanks.
The difference between the roof and the water tank is 1.2 meters, and the distance between the water tank and the water tank is about 1 meter. So that's explainable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="113" >4, and as for the question of how to close the lid of the water tank. </h1>
It was the police who miswrote the lid of the water tank as open and closed. This is where there is the oolong behind.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="115" >5, and many people have argued that the Cecil Hotel will have an alarm device on the roof, why can Lan Ke'er unknowingly run to the roof alone? </h1>
It is true that between the 15th floor and the roof of the hotel there is an alarm device installed and locked, and if you enter the platform directly through this passage, then the alarm will be triggered and the sound will be emitted.
But there is another passage in the hotel that can reach the roof, and that is the emergency escape channel. And this emergency escape route is not locked. This escape route provides direct access to the roof. If Lan Ke'er did not take the passage with the alarm device, it was likely to be the passage that was taken.
According to the published evidence, the police gave that the cause of Death of Lan Ke'er was bipolar disorder, but many people still denied that Lan Ke'er committed suicide many years ago.
There are also some bloggers who pursue the truth, and they put out lan ke'er's video in the elevator frame by frame, and found that the video officially released had traces of being edited.
This makes the already much more bizarre case, and there is no completely satisfactory answer to this day.