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Hotel with corpse in water tank has notorious past
Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Cecil Hotel's dark past earned it a spot on
Los Angeles tours long before a woman's body was found inside its rooftop water tank. "It's the place where serial killers stay," said tour guide Richard Schave. Schave and his wife, Kim Cooper, conduct a "true crime and oddities" tour they call "Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice." The new mystery surrounding Elisa Lam's death will be added to Cooper's spiel during the tour stops at the Cecil Hotel, she said. Cooper and Schave have made it their job to compile details on those who have killed or been killed while staying at the Cecil. The killers The most famous on their list are serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger. Photos: Body found in hotel water tank Photos: Body found in hotel water tank Hotel guests: Discovery 'sickening' Ramirez, known as the "Nightstalker," now resides on California's death row, but in 1985 he was living on the Cecil's top floor in a $14 a night room, Cooper said. The Cecil, filled then with hundreds of transients living in the cheap rooms, was a good place for Ramirez to go unnoticed as he killed 13 women, Schave said. He was "just dumping his bloody clothes in the Dumpster at the end of his evening and going in the back entrance." Jack Unterweger worked as a journalist covering Los Angeles crime for an Austrian magazine in 1991 when he moved into the Cecil. "We believe he was living at the Cecil in homage to Ramirez," Schave said. He is blamed with killing three prostitutes in Los Angeles while a guest at the Cecil. The killed During the 1950s and 1960s, the Cecil had a reputation as a place where people would kill themselves by jumping out upper-floor windows, Cooper said. "It's just what people do when they are at the end of their rope," she said. Helen Gurnee, in her 50s, leaped from a seventh floor window, landing on the Cecil Hotel marquee on October 22, 1954, she said. Julia Moore jumped from her eighth floor room window on February 11, 1962, she said. She left behind a bus ticket from St Louis, 59 cents and an Illinois bank account book showing a balance of $1,800. Pauline Otton, 27, jumped from a ninth floor window after an argument with her estranged husband on October 12, 1962, she said. Otton landed on George Gianinni, 65, who was walking on the sidewalk 90 feet below. Both were killed instantly. Not everyone on Cooper's list committed suicide. "Pigeon Goldie" Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found dead in her ransacked room on June 4, 1964, Cooper said. Osgood, known for protecting and feeding the pigeons at nearby Pershing Square, was stabbed, strangled and raped. The crime has not been solved. Not an ordinary hotel Schave and Cooper have theories about why the Cecil's past has been so sordid. It was built in the 1920s as a hotel "for businessmen to come into town and spend a night or two," Cooper said. But it was soon upstaged by nicer hotels in a better part of town, she said. When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s, it became more of a transient hotel. Eventually, it transitioned into a single room occupancy business, known as an SRO. Long-term tenants rented individual rooms and shared bathrooms with neighboring residents. "This was just a place where people who were really down on their luck were going," Schave said. "These hotels are filled with people who are at the edge of being integrated in society." During the 1970s, '80s and '90s, hundreds of people who were "down on their luck" called the Cecil home, he said. "They were all hustling to make ends meet." "It's not like that any more, of course," Cooper said. New owners converted three of the floors back to hotel rooms around 2007, but most of the building remains SRO, Schave said. Another section serves as a hostel that is marketed toward European tourists, he said It was not clear if Lam was staying in one of the hotel rooms, which offer more privacy, or the hostel. Repeated calls by CNN to the Cecil Hotel management were not returned Wednesday and Thursday. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/us/cal...=Google+Reader |
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:30:46 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote: Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Cecil Hotel's dark past earned it a spot on Los Angeles tours long before a woman's body was found inside its rooftop water tank. "It's the place where serial killers stay," said tour guide Richard Schave. Schave and his wife, Kim Cooper, conduct a "true crime and oddities" tour they call "Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice." The new mystery surrounding Elisa Lam's death will be added to Cooper's spiel during the tour stops at the Cecil Hotel, she said. Cooper and Schave have made it their job to compile details on those who have killed or been killed while staying at the Cecil. The killers The most famous on their list are serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger. Photos: Body found in hotel water tank Photos: Body found in hotel water tank Hotel guests: Discovery 'sickening' Ramirez, known as the "Nightstalker," now resides on California's death row, but in 1985 he was living on the Cecil's top floor in a $14 a night room, Cooper said. The Cecil, filled then with hundreds of transients living in the cheap rooms, was a good place for Ramirez to go unnoticed as he killed 13 women, Schave said. He was "just dumping his bloody clothes in the Dumpster at the end of his evening and going in the back entrance." Jack Unterweger worked as a journalist covering Los Angeles crime for an Austrian magazine in 1991 when he moved into the Cecil. "We believe he was living at the Cecil in homage to Ramirez," Schave said. He is blamed with killing three prostitutes in Los Angeles while a guest at the Cecil. The killed During the 1950s and 1960s, the Cecil had a reputation as a place where people would kill themselves by jumping out upper-floor windows, Cooper said. "It's just what people do when they are at the end of their rope," she said. Helen Gurnee, in her 50s, leaped from a seventh floor window, landing on the Cecil Hotel marquee on October 22, 1954, she said. Julia Moore jumped from her eighth floor room window on February 11, 1962, she said. She left behind a bus ticket from St Louis, 59 cents and an Illinois bank account book showing a balance of $1,800. Pauline Otton, 27, jumped from a ninth floor window after an argument with her estranged husband on October 12, 1962, she said. Otton landed on George Gianinni, 65, who was walking on the sidewalk 90 feet below. Both were killed instantly. Not everyone on Cooper's list committed suicide. "Pigeon Goldie" Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found dead in her ransacked room on June 4, 1964, Cooper said. Osgood, known for protecting and feeding the pigeons at nearby Pershing Square, was stabbed, strangled and raped. The crime has not been solved. Not an ordinary hotel Schave and Cooper have theories about why the Cecil's past has been so sordid. It was built in the 1920s as a hotel "for businessmen to come into town and spend a night or two," Cooper said. But it was soon upstaged by nicer hotels in a better part of town, she said. When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s, it became more of a transient hotel. Eventually, it transitioned into a single room occupancy business, known as an SRO. Long-term tenants rented individual rooms and shared bathrooms with neighboring residents. "This was just a place where people who were really down on their luck were going," Schave said. "These hotels are filled with people who are at the edge of being integrated in society." During the 1970s, '80s and '90s, hundreds of people who were "down on their luck" called the Cecil home, he said. "They were all hustling to make ends meet." "It's not like that any more, of course," Cooper said. New owners converted three of the floors back to hotel rooms around 2007, but most of the building remains SRO, Schave said. Another section serves as a hostel that is marketed toward European tourists, he said It was not clear if Lam was staying in one of the hotel rooms, which offer more privacy, or the hostel. Repeated calls by CNN to the Cecil Hotel management were not returned Wednesday and Thursday. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/us/cal...=Google+Reader I didn't read this link but I wonder if it's haunted ?? |
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Doug the stupid-ass full-quoter used improper usenet message composition
style by UNNECESSARILY FULL QUOTING: I didn't read this link but I wonder if it's haunted ?? Did you have to be a stupid ass by fully-quoting the previous post (all 106 lines) just to ass a single line (that being a dumb-ass question) ? Do you know that full-quoters are stupid asses? |
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How about top posters who leave the separation marks in?
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Dug the Full Quoter" wrote in message ... Doug the stupid-ass full-quoter used improper usenet message composition style by UNNECESSARILY FULL QUOTING: I didn't read this link but I wonder if it's haunted ?? Subject: Accidental Power Cut Date: Sunday, February 08, 2009 9:54 AM Talking to Faith, yesterday. Lives in a building with apartments. From what she can figure, the guy who moved in to another apartment gave her apartment number when he moved in. With five apartments, it's easy to make a mistake. And, the mistake was made. I'm typing by memory, so I'm sure a few of the details are mixed up. Friday, right before Presidents Day weekend. The power company came, and disconntected the power for the guy who had moved out. Unfortunately, they followed their instructions. And the result was to disconnect Faith, who really finds power useful in the bitter cold winter. And, the disconnect happened during the work day. She got home after work, and finds the apartment cold enough that you could see your breath. Friday afternoon, going into a long weekend. Some calls to the case worker, and to the power company. See if they can get the power back on. With the weekend, she keeps getting voice mails. So she chose to pack the kids and some clothes, and ship them off to her parents. She did get a hold of the apartment manger, who suggests to turn on the oven, and heat the apartment that way. Not going to happen, account of carbon monoxide. She asked someone if she could run some power off the other guy's power, to run her boiler. How water radiators, along the baseboard of the apartment. She says she can't remember what was the answer. She did think of generator. In the next couple days, it's the weekend. She is living with her boyfriend, Johny. The two girls are with grand parents. The kids missed a couple days school, but had a good time with grand parents. Some where along this time, I was in Utica, on work. I left a message on her voice mail, on the cell phone, but she didn't call back. Tuesday of the next week, a couple of the radiator pipes froze, and burst. Copper pipes, along the floor. She came back one day to check on the apartment, and found a skating rink for a living room. With frozen water, across the living room. Called the apartment guy, who was likely upset that she hadn't left the oven on, so at least the apartment would have some heat. He promised to get the pipes fixed by Friday. Had to order some parts. They finally did get the power back on. They drew as much of the water up as they could, wtih a wet vac, and then rented a home carpet extractor machine. Rinse N Vac, or Bissel or something. That was about $30. The apartment guy did finally arrive, and replace some burst copper tubing, and get the heat working again. Can't remember what day that was, but it was after the Friday a week from power cut. I mentioned that it would have been possible to run the boiler off a generator, or take some power from another meter box (if the circuit panels are fairly close to each other). Boiler isn't all that much electricity. She replied that "if I had a hot air furnace or something, that I thought a generator would work on, I would have called and asked you to come out, and offer to pay the gas money". Having refused the two or three things that would have averted disaster (use the stove for heat, or have someone like me keep the boiler going). She had a disaster. Fortunately for all involved, she's planning to move, in the spring. I'm guessing the landlord will be encouraged by her decision. Christopher A. Young .. .. Did you have to be a stupid ass by fully-quoting the previous post (all 106 lines) just to ass a single line (that being a dumb-ass question) ? Do you know that full-quoters are stupid asses? |
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