Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation

Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation

by Jake Anderson
Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation

Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation

by Jake Anderson

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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780806540078
Publisher: Kensington
Publication date: 02/25/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Jake Anderson is an investigative journalist, filmmaker, and author of the New York Times-featured true crime memoir, Gone At Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam. Jake is also a freelance editor who launched the website The Crime Wire. He is a UC Santa Cruz film school graduate and currently lives in Oregon with his girlfriend and puppy dog. 

 

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Part 1 Discovery 1

Chapter 1 Missing 3

Chapter 2 Found 18

Chapter 3 The Investigation Begins 25

Chapter 4 Rise of the Websleuths 39

Chapter 5 The West Coast Tour 54

Chapter 6 City of Demons 69

Chapter 7 Further Down the Rabbit Hole 80

Chapter 8 The "Suicide Hotel" 89

Chapter 9 The 14th Floor 103

Chapter 10 The Autopsy 114

Part 2 Serotonin and Synchronicity 121

Chapter 11 The Art of the Meltdown 123

Chapter 12 David and Yinna Lam vs. the Cecil Hotel 140

Chapter 13 Friends and Enemies of Occam's Razor 149

Chapter 14 Inbound Train 162

Chapter 15 A World with Evil 172

Chapter 16 Dark Synchronicity 185

Chapter 17 The Last Bookstore 195

Chapter 18 Return to the Cecil 206

Part 3 Coverup 231

Chapter 19 Revisiting the Cause of Death 233

Chapter 20 Whoever Chases Monsters 247

Chapter 21 Inside Job 254

Chapter 22 A Missing Element and A Bombshell 264

Chapter 23 What Happened to Elisa Lam? 287

Acknowledgments 325

Source Notes 327

Index 339

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