{"id":4668,"date":"2014-02-14T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2014-02-14T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T02:35:17","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-february-14-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4668","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for February 14, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Foul Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tourists staying at a Los Angeles hotel bathed, brushed teeth and drank with water from a tank in which a young woman’s body was likely decomposing for more than two weeks. \u00a0Elisa Lam’s corpse was found in the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank by a maintenance worker who was trying to figure out why the water pressure was low on Tuesday, February 19, 2013. \u00a0Lam’s parents reported her missing in early February. The last sighting of her was in the hotel on January 31. \u00a0Detectives are now investigating the 21-year-old Canadian’s suspicious death. \u00a0It was not clear whether the water presented any health risks. Results on tests on the water done Wednesday by the Los Angeles Public Health Department were expected later in the day. \u00a0People who stayed at the Cecil since Lam’s disappearance expressed shock about developments. \u00a0“The water did have a funny taste,” Sabrina Baugh told CNN on Wednesday. She and her husband used the water for eight days. \u00a0“We never thought anything of it,” the British woman said. “We thought it was just the way it was here.” \u00a0What she described was not normal. \u00a0“The shower was awful,” she said. “When you turned the tap on, the water was coming black first for two seconds and then it was going back to normal.” \u00a0The hotel remained open after the discovery, but guests checking in Tuesday were told not to drink it, according to Qui Nguyen, who decided to find a new hotel Wednesday. \u00a0Nguyen said he learned about the body from a CNN reporter, not the hotel staff.<\/p>\n

Culled from: CNN
\n<\/a>Generously submitted by: Ben<\/p>\n

The toxicology came back negative and it turns out that Lam suffered from mental illness, so she probably killed herself, but they listed the cause of death as “accidental”. \u00a0This surveillance video of Lam getting in the elevator and acting strangely was released. \u00a0Crazy people think that it shows that she was killed by ghosts or was possessed by demons or something. \u00a0I suppose that’s true; the ghosts and demons inside her own head.<\/p>\n

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