On February 11, 2013, British tourist Sabina Baugh and her husband, Michael, rented a room at the Cecil Hotel, downtown Los Angeles. Everything was in order, except for one thing. They were experiencing issues with their water. The pressure seemed to be weak, and the smell and taste was unusual. Even more abnormally, the water ran black.

It took a few seconds for the water to run clear again. The guests assumed this to be normal. The hotel was located near Skid Row, after all. Reluctant to address the problem, Mr. and Mrs. Baugh would continue to drink and bathe in this foul water.

Finally, on February 19, 2013, Sabina decided it was time to make a complaint. A maintenance worker was sent to check the rooftop water tanks. It was then that he made a terrifying, grotesque discovery; inside one of the cisterns was the liquefying, decayed body of a young woman. Firefighters came to remove the remains, and police were summoned to identify her. The woman was a 21 year old Canadian student named Elisa Lam.

It wasn't long after that CNN arrived and began reporting this disturbing find, questioning Sabina about what had happened.

The events leading to Lam's disappearance and death are mysterious. She was last seen in the Cecil Hotel on January 31, 2013. CCTV footage (can be found on YouTube) reveals Lam showing signs of strange behavior in the hotel elevator, as if hiding from someone; pressing buttons for multiple floors, hiding in the corner of the lift, repeatedly and cautiously peering into the corridor, and so forth. A few days later, she was declared missing. How is it that she ended up in the water supply? Perhaps it was simply, as L.A.P.D. Sergeant Rudy Lopez stated, "a very, very strange accident."

This is a list of deaths, violence and other suspicious activity associated with the Cecil Hotel. The Cecil Hotel is a budget hotel in downtown Los Angeles, opened in 1927. Since 1931, it has gained a reputation for suicides and other violent deaths. Its name has since been changed to the "Stay on Main," in an effort to distance itself from its tragic past.

• On November 19, 1931, Manhattan Beach resident, W. K. Norton, age 46, was found dead in his room after ingesting poison capsules. A week prior, Norton had checked into the Cecil under the name "James Willys," from Chicago. Norton's death appears to be the earliest known suicide at the hotel.

• In September, 1932, a maid found Benjamin Dodich, age 25, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He did not leave a suicide note.

• In late July, 1934, former Army Medical Corps Sgt. Louis D. Borden, age 53, was found dead in his room at the Cecil. He had slashed his throat with a razor. Borden left several notes, one of which cited poor health as the reason for his suicide.

• In March, 1937, Grace E. Magro fell from a ninth story window. Her fall was broken by telephone wires which were wrapped around her body. She later died at the, now demolished, Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. Police were unable to determine whether Magro's death was the result of an accident or suicide.

• In January, 1938, Marine fireman Roy Thompson, age 35, jumped from Cecil's top floor and was found on the skylight of a neighbouring building. He had been staying at the Cecil for several weeks.

• In May, 1939, Navy officer Erwin C. Neblett, age 39, of the USS Wright was found dead in his room after ingesting poison.

• In January, 1940, teacher Dorothy Sceiger, age 45, ingested poison while staying at the Cecil and was reported by the Los Angeles Times to be "near death." No further reports were published about Sceiger's condition.

• In September, 1944, Dorothy Jean Purcell, age 19, was sharing a room at the Cecil with shoe salesman, Ben Levine, age 38. Purcell, who had apparently been unaware that she was pregnant, went into labor. Purcell later testified that she did not want to disrupt a sleeping Levine, so she went to the bathroom where she gave birth to a baby boy. Thinking the baby was dead, Purcell threw him out of the window where he landed on the roof of an adjacent building. Purcell was charged with murder. Three psychiatrists, which were then known as "alienists," testified that Purcell was "mentally confused," at the time of the incident. In January, 1945, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

• In November, 1947, Robert Smith, age 35, died after jumping from one of Cecil's seventh floor windows.

• On October 22, 1954, San Francisco stationery firm employee Helen Gurnee, age 55, jumped from the window of her seventh floor room and landed on top of Cecil's marquee. One week prior, she had registered at the hotel under the name "Margaret Brown."

• On February 11, 1962, Julia Frances Moore, age 50, jumped from the window of her eighth floor room and landed in a second-story interior light well. Moore did not leave a suicide note. Among her possessions were a bus ticket from St. Louis, 59 cents in change, and an Illinois bank book showing a balance of $1,800.

• On October 12, 1962, Pauline Otton, age 27, jumped from the window of her ninth floor room after an argument with her estranged husband, Dewey. Dewey had left the room prior to Otton's suicide. Otton landed on a pedestrian, George Gianinni, age 65, killing them both instantly. As there were no witnesses, police initially thought Otton and Gianinni committed suicide together. However, it was soon determined that Gianinni had his hands in his pockets at the time of his death and he was still wearing shoes. Had he jumped, his shoes would have likely fallen off during the fall or upon impact.

• On June 4, 1964, a hotel worker discovered "Pigeon Goldie" Osgood, a retired telephone operator, dead in her room. She had been raped, stabbed and beaten and her room was ransacked. Osgood was well known around the area, earning her nickname because she fed birds in nearby Pershing Square. Near her body was the Los Angeles Dodgers cap she always wore, along with a paper sack full of birdseed. Hours after her murder, Jacques B. Ehlinger, age 29, was seen walking through Pershing Square, the area in which Osgood fed birds, in bloodstained clothing. He was arrested and charged with Osgood's murder, but was later cleared of the crime. Osgood's murder remains unsolved.

• On December 20, 1975, a still unidentified woman jumped from her twelfth floor window onto the Cecil's second floor roof. She had registered at the hotel on December 16.

• On February 19, 2013, the naked body of Elisa Lam, a 21 year old Canadian student, was found inside one of the water supply tanks on the hotel roof. Lam had gone missing almost three weeks earlier, on January 31, 2013. Her decomposing body was discovered by a maintenance worker in one of the rooftop water tanks, after guests had complained about low water pressure and water that "tasted funny." Authorities later ruled Lam's death as an accidental drowning. Video surveillance footage taken from inside an elevator shortly before her disappearance showed Lam acting strangely, pressing multiple elevator buttons, hiding in the corner of the elevator, and waving her arms wildly.

• On June 13, 2015, the body of a 28 year old male was found outside the hotel. Some conjectured he may have committed suicide by jumping from the hotel, though a spokesperson for the county coroner informed the Los Angeles Times that the cause of death had not been determined.

The Cecil has also been connected with several well known murders.

• Elizabeth Short, a murder victim dubbed by the media as "the Black Dahlia," is one of Los Angeles' best known unsolved murders. Short was reportedly seen at the Cecil's bar in the days shortly before her murder in January, 1947. However, this information remains disputed.

• The Cecil has been the reported residence for serial killers Richard Ramirez, 1985, and Jack Unterweger, 1991.