Elisa Lam Death: Body of missing Canadian tourist found in LA hotel water tank, police say

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14. How did woman's body come to be in L.A. hotel water tank?

By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 4:47 PM EST, Thu February 21, 2013

... Los Angeles robbery-homicide detectives are treating this as a suspicious death for obvious reasons, Lopez said. Falling into a covered water tank behind a locked door on top of a roof would be an unusual accident ...

Preliminary results may be announced late Thursday or Friday morning, according to assistant chief coroner Ed Winter. It will be several weeks before investigators have the toxicology lab report which would show whether Lam had any drugs in her system.

One clue comes from security camera video of Lam inside a hotel elevator the last day she was seen. She is seen walking into the elevator, pushing the buttons for four floors and then peering out of the opened elevator door as if she is hiding or looking for someone ..

New guests continued to check into the Cecil in the hours after firefighters removed Lam's body from the water tank. But each guest was asked to sign a waiver releasing the hotel from liability if they become ill. "You do so at your own risk and peril," the hotel's release said. Guests who already paid for their rooms would not get refunds if they move out, it said ...

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