Let’s talk about evaluation first:
-The case itself is not complicated, there is indeed not enough material to support 4 episodes. Many panoramic shots and slow-motion shots are sufficient.
-The series introduces a lot of related content about the hotel and surrounding areas. Although it has nothing to do with the case itself, I personally feel that it is quite interesting. I lived in Los Angeles for so many years and didn’t know that there was a Skid Row slum in the city center.
-Although the network detective part did not help extend the plot (hey, does the documentary also have a plot?), it is also part of the Lan Keer case.
-The production is fairly good, and the people who visit are all related to the case.
-I especially like the manager of Cecil Hotel, very straightforward.
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About Lanker:
-The episode spent a lot of time introducing Lan Kerr's soup is not hot. Lan Ke'er posts on Tangbure almost every day, just like writing in a diary.
-Lan Kerr looks a little naive, has no social experience, has a cheerful personality, and hopes to make friends with people.
-Lan Keer went to California to play alone, first to San Diego, then north, disappeared at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, and then the body was found.
-Lan Keer first stayed at the Cecil Hotel to share a room with two other girls. But then the two girls said that she was behaving abnormally. She left a note for the two roommates, which read "Don't call me! Leave! Get out!" Then the two girls responded to the hotel, and the hotel changed her a single room the day before Lan Keer left.
-Lan Kerr has Bi-polar, bi-directional mood disorder.
Doubts (and explanations) about elevator surveillance video:
-Lan Keer lives on the 5th floor, but the surveillance video is on the 14th floor.
-The elevator does not close the door (because Lan Keer pressed the stop button, and then the network detective went to test, pressing the stop button will keep the elevator door open for 2 minutes, which matches the video time).
-The elevator seems to cut the content for 53 seconds.
-Lan Ke'er seems to be interacting with someone outside the elevator, but according to Lan Ke'er's sister, she suffers from persecution delusions during Bipolar's attack and feels that someone is chasing her to harm her.
-After Lan Keer left the elevator, surveillance video showed that the elevator opened and closed several times, but no one entered or left every time. This should be because Lan Kerr has pressed buttons on several floors.
About the water tank:
-LA police initially said that during the investigation, they found that the water tank door was closed. So if Lan Kerr stumbled and fell into the water tank, the water tank door should be open. The water tank door is closed, so someone must have thrown her (or her corpse) into the water tank. It is speculated that Lan Kerr was killed, not stumbled/suicide.
-However, the series visited the maintenance worker who found the body at the beginning. He confirmed that at the time he was checking the water tank door because the residents complained that the water had a peculiar smell.
About autopsy:
-No injuries were found.
-No drugs or other illegal drugs in the body.
-There is no water in the trachea and lungs (Generally speaking, there will be water in the trachea and lungs of a drowned person, but the coroner specifically said that it is not always present.)
-The low content of her prescription drug for Bipolar control indicates that she may stop taking the drug or reduce the dose of the drug from the beginning of the trip.
About Cyber Detective
-After the Los Angeles police released the elevator surveillance video, it attracted many online detectives to study the case.
-Most of the research results of Internet detectives are of little help to the detection of the case.
-Internet detectives mistakenly believed that Morbid, a Mexican death metal singer, was the murderer, and then harassed him in various ways. But Morbid himself was not in the United States at the time of the case. He used to stay here a year ago when he stayed at the Cecil Hotel in Lakker.
About Cecil Hotel and the surrounding area:
-The Cecil Hotel opened in 1924. At first it was a high-end hotel, but after the Great Depression, it became a poor hotel.
-Because of relevant regulations, Cecil Hotel must reserve some rooms as low-income residences and provide cheap rooms/beds for the surrounding residents and the homeless.
-Because Cecil's hotel rents are cheap, no deposit is required, and the poor, criminals, drug dealers, drug dealers, prostitutes, etc. will come to live. People are often dead in the hotel.
-Many famous serial killers have also lived there.
-The Cecil Hotel is surrounded by the famous slums of Los Angeles, which gathers the largest number of "stable" homeless populations in the United States.
-Because the Cecil Hotel and the surrounding environment are chaotic and the crime rate is high, at first I thought that Lan Kerr had left the hotel and was attacked. Later, the monitoring was conducted and it was discovered that Lan Kerr had not left the hotel. So I wonder if she met the murderer in the hotel. But there is no evidence that she met anyone in the hotel.
Regarding some strange coincidences:
-After Lan Kerr disappeared, tuberculosis broke out in the surrounding slums. The name of the vaccine released by the Centers for Disease Control was Lam Eliza (the same English name as Lan Kerr).
-"The Last Bookstore" that Lan Keer visited before his death, its company address is located in Lan Keer's grave.
-Lan Keer's case is similar to the plot of the 2005 movie "Ghost Talk".
final conclusion:
Because Lan Keer suffered from Bipolar, the drug was stopped automatically. The condition relapsed and hallucinations. He took the elevator to the 14th floor, climbed from the fire ladder to the top floor, opened the water tank, fell into the water and drowned.
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