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  1. Terry_w

    Terry_w Lawyer, Tax Adviser and Mortgage broker in Sydney Business Member

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    Thanks for the recommendation - enjoyed the first 2 episodes this morning.
     
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    Thanks.. takes watching 48 hours true crime to a whole different level..
     
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    Listened to the trailer, I'm hooked!
     
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    Terry_w Lawyer, Tax Adviser and Mortgage broker in Sydney Business Member

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    Stumbled on this new podcast about a girl that went missing more than 20 years ago. Its American, but really well produced and hard to stop listening:

    Episodes — YOUR OWN BACKYARD
     
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    Casefile
     
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    Thx
    I like cold cases
     
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    It’s massive, lots of international cases too. There is a Reddit sub where fans list favorite eps (google). Will give you a starting point.
     
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    There's not much crime-wise that this podcast series doesn't cover. Last year I listened to the 3 part series they did on Silk Road which was excellent.
     
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    Watch this, he really thought he could get away with this

     
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    I've just subbed to all of them, I like reading about true crime, cold cases and serial killers :)
     
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    Here is the link to this documentary on British Netflix
    https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81130130

    There's some interesting theories about this on youtube and Reddit, apparently the girl he was having affair with (Nicole) was involved and knew a lot more than she let on. She has since changed her name and flying low. Chris is a monster and also an idiot who caved in very early and is now trying to say the police pressured him to confess.
     
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    West Cork is ripper I’m listening to at the moment, it’s about 18 parts I think
     
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    Anyone watched Cecil hotel on Netflix?
    I started watching this documentary and made it to about halfway through episode 3. Nobody likes a quitter, but I've stopped watching. Here's why.

    It reeks of abusing a tragedy for entertainment.

    They've brought in all these 'YouTubers' and 'websleuths' to narrate the story, and frankly, it's disgusting. At one point a 'websleuth' starts crying saying he felt like he lost a sister, a friend. 'It's the outcome a lot of us didn't want' he said of her body being discovered. WTF?! Us? He's acting like he knew her but he's just a grief-thief - this is in no way HIS tragedy, but he's including himself in it. And he's literally a random websleuth. Aren't we all mate!

    They use tons of footage of a group of YouTubers/websleuths staying at the hotel, retracing her steps, going in the same elevator she was last filmed in, and up on the roof. They are GIDDY with excitement. It's like a night out on the town for them.

    'My instinct says she was murdered' the websleuth said. His instinct? So, not evidence, or law enforcement, or eyewitness statements? Of course not, because there's no evidence a third party was involved (I'll get to that in a sec). He's gagging for a creepy mystery. He literally wants this to be more tragic and painful than it already is. Just think about that for a second. And Netflix let him talk about it on a documentary.

    When a YouTuber starts musing if she was sexually assaulted, I switched off. There's more footage in this 'documentary' of websleuths and YouTubers than with investigators. I dread to think what the family must think with all these people capitalising on their tragic loss.

    What happened to Elisa Lam will most likely always remain a question. Her behaviour had been reported to hotel staff prior to her disappearance for being strange. Her behaviour in the elevator was strange, almost like she was seeing something that wasn't there (she hadn't taken her anti psychotic), and I don't think it's a stretch to think she could have 'hidden' in the water tank from something she thought she was seeing and then drowned or succumbed to hypothermia when she was unable to reopen the hatch (which would have required her to push it to lift it up). Whether this was due to a bipolar episode, a reaction to a medication, or a bad trip, who knows. And I may well be way off because I'm not an investigator and I wasn't on the scene.

    Wikipedia page:
    Death of Elisa Lam - Wikipedia

    Autopsy report:
    File preview EL autopsy.pdf - Page 1/27

    Interesting Reddit thread with emphasis on drugs:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3amnrx/resolved_elisa_lam_long_link_heavy/

    Netflix has essentially created a trashy show exploiting someone's tragic death in order to call attention to how websleuths on social media are bad for creating trashy shows exploiting someone's tragic death. Ironic.
     
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    Yes I watched it. Pretty strange how she ended up in the tank, but a bit of poor form on the producers part.
     
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    The story is tragic. Only a monster could murder their wife and daughters. Like the Prosecutor said “Just get a divorce!”

    The amount of footage from Police and personal video was incredible.
     
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    Yes, unreal
     
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