![]() “They’ve been in the neighborhood for nine years working. They immigrated here,” she told CNN affiliate CTV. Tanya Grohmann, who works nearby, said she was saddened by the loss and the fact the family did not know what happened to the young woman. Steins called the young woman friendly and outgoing.įlowers and signs were left Thursday outside the temporarily-closed Lam family restaurant in Burnaby, British Columbia. Teika Steins, manager of a hostel in Toronto, Canada, said Lam stayed a week there in early December. “Unfortunately, we do not have much more to say, other than to extend our deepest sympathies to the family,” said Schmidt.Īccording to Los Angeles police, Lam tended to use public transportation. Randy Schmidt, a spokesman for the University of British Columbia, said Lam was registered in a class in August, but was not registered in any classes this year, according to records. He saw Lam’s lifeless body at the bottom. You think about it and it’s not good.”Įventually, the hotel maintenance department investigated the water problem, sending a worker to look into the tank, police said. “It makes you feel literally physically sick, but more than that you feel it psychologically. ![]() ![]() Knowing now what they didn’t know then about the water is sickening, Michael Baugh said. ![]() “We thought it was just the way it was here.” “We never thought anything of it,” she said. I can barely describe it.”īut for a week, they never complained. “It had a very funny, sweety, disgusting taste. The tap water “tasted horrible,” Baugh said. “When you turned the tap on, the water was coming black first for two seconds and then it was going back to normal.” “The shower was awful,” Sabina Baugh said. The water pressure dropped to a trickle at times. Strange things began happening with the hotel’s water supply later in the month, according to Sabina and Michael Baugh, a British couple who spent eight days there until checking out Wednesday. Her daily calls home stopped on January 31, police told reporters on February 6 at a Los Angeles news conference.īecause it was an international case – and her parents and sister flew to California to find answers – the case may have gotten more attention than most of the several thousand missing person reports made in Los Angeles each year.Ī search of the hotel then found no sign of Lam, including a trip to the roof with a police search dog, Lopez said. ![]() Lam’s parents reported the University of British Columbia student missing in early February. Lam checked into the Cecil Hotel five days earlier, January 26, on her way to Santa Cruz, California, according to police in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. She then stands outside the open elevator doorway, motioning with her hands, before apparently walking away. Clad in a red hoodie, Lam at one point walks out of the elevator before returning to it, pushing the buttons again. 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. One clue comes from security camera video of Lam inside a hotel elevator the last day she was seen. Water in Lam’s lungs could be a sign that she drowned, but it might not tell why she was inside the small tank. It will be several weeks before investigators have the toxicology lab report which would show whether Lam had any drugs in her system.Īny marks, injuries or wounds may suggest Lam died elsewhere and was dumped into the tank by her killer. Falling into a covered water tank behind a locked door on top of a roof would be an unusual accident.Īn autopsy was completed, but the cause of death is deferred pending further examination, assistant chief coroner Ed Winter said Thursday. Los Angeles robbery-homicide detectives are treating this as a suspicious death for obvious reasons, Lopez said. ![]()
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