34 gripping true crime docuseries on Netflix

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Everyone certainly loves a mystery, especially one that goes viral and launches a slue of chaotic nonsense disguised as investigative journalism. The Netflix docuseries Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel provides subscribers with a well-crafted example of how a few people can take a tragic event and turn it into a conspiracy that borders on the supernatural.

The CCTV footage of Elisa Lam’s final moments taken on the elevator looks like something straight out of a horror movie which is probably why the entire affair gained an insane amount of attention. The poor woman ended up drowning in a water tank on the roof, and because of a variety of aggravating factors, people perceived this ordeal as being much more than just a tragic accident.

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel looks at the situation as well as the troubled history of the historic building where the event took place. The less-than-ideal past of the structure accompanied by many easily made comparisons to horror flicks like Dark Water sparked an army of so-called YouTube truthers to take this ordeal to a level it didn’t need to reach.

The documentary series showcases the nature of the incident, some of the less reliable people involved, and how easy it is to completely get carried away with imagination while searching for the truth.