Cecil Hotel Research Paper

Do you know the true history of the Cecil Hotel? It is known as one of the most known and feared locations in downtown Los Angeles. The hotel is so scary that it inspired several documentaries, movies, and shows. The Cecil Hotel is infamous for its dark past, eerie events, mysterious deaths, and the infamous case of Elisa Lam. The original plans of the hotel were based on one particular type of visitor. The hotel was built nearly one hundred years ago with a specific kind of person in mind. The Cecil Hotel was intended for businessmen and high-class society people to stay in (Sarena & Kuroski 2023). Whether they were traveling or on business, they were welcomed into the hotel. The building was astounding with nineteen floors and seven hundred rooms, it was one of the largest hotels ever seen during the 1900s

According to Katie Serena and John Kuroski, “The alleys and streets surrounding the Cecil would soon be known as ‘Skid Row’ and become home to many homeless.” The hotel became a cheap location for residents to stay and a hot spot for criminals to hide. It was a cheap place to lay low for many criminals, and even murderers. During his spree, murderer Richard Ramirez stayed in a room at the top of the hotel. Richard is a well-known serial killer who killed many and is famously known as “The Night Stalker.” Another killer that stayed there was Jack Unterwager, some people say he stayed there because Ramirez had (Sarena & Kuroski 2023). The Cecil Hotel is prone to many fatal incidents, occurrences, and notable things that gave it its horrid reputation. In 1994, a young woman, Dorothy Jean Purcell, threw her baby out of the bathroom window and killed her newborn baby. She said she had no idea she was pregnant until she had the baby in the hotel’s toilet. She stated that she thought the baby was born dead, so she threw it out of the window and onto the next-door building's