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Gone at Midnight [electronic resource] : The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation

Anderson, Jake2020
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A missing young woman. A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A perplexing real-life mystery. With stunning new insights and impeccable research, investigative journalist Jake Anderson explores the case that captivated a nation and inspired the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel! Exclusive interviews and photos included. Twenty-one-year-old student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.'s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. More than a week later, guests' complaints of poor water quality led to a grim discovery: Elisa's nude body floating in a rooftop water tank. The only clue was a disturbing elevator video of Elisa, uploaded to YouTube in a plea for public assistance. As the video went viral, journalist Jake Anderson set out to uncover the facts. In Gone at Midnight he chronicles eye-opening discoveries about who Elisa Lam really was and what—or whom—she was running from, offering stunning new insights into one of the most chilling and obsessively followed true crime cases of the century. "Outstanding . . . What really happened to Lam may never be known, but true crime buffs won't want to miss this gripping search for the truth." –Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW "Extremely detailed and featuring new evidence. . . . Anderson's thorough research and passionate writing make a fascinating read." —Booklist "Gone at Midnight is the type of true crime book that you stay up all night reading." —New York Journal of Books A Fortune magazine"Most Anticipated Books of the Year" Selection A Goodreads Featured Release An Oxygen Best True Crime Book of the Year
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[Place of publication not identified] : Citadel Press, 2020
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
<DIV>Jake Anderson is a writer, filmmaker, investigative journalist, activist, and digital publisher. He runs the popular website The Ghost Diaries and is a contributing journalist for The Anti Media and multiple alternative media outlets. He has been a featured guest on Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis, Spaced Out, Nocturnal Frequency, West of the Rockies, and Common Ground. Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, he's a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz and currently lives near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Find more of his work at TheGhostDiaries.com, where he analyzes cold cases and unexplained mysteries. Follow him on twitter @OverTheMoonSF.</DIV>
ISBN:
9780806540078
Language:
English
BRN:
3745478
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