Messed Up Stories About The Notorious Cecil Hotel

Perhaps the most infamous hotel in the United States, the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles has a long and sordid past, catering to those seeking the seedier side of life. Its history has been a grim assortment of misfortunes and sad occurrences that have continued until fairly recently.

The first recorded suicide at the Cecil happened at a time when the Great Depression was truly ramping up — and was perhaps an ominous portent for things to come over the following decades, as there would continue to be such deaths from that point on.

On November 19, 1931, a Manhattan Beach resident, one W.K. Norton, was found by hotel staff in his hotel room, deceased. According to KCET, he had only been dead for a few hours by the time he was found. In the subsequent investigation, police found capsules that were believed to be filled with poison in Norton's vest pocket.

Norton's death may not have been the first glimpse at what was to come at the Cecil. Also according to KCET, a woman named Dorothy Roberson was taken to the hospital after wandering the hotel for three days having consumed barbiturates in an attempt to kill herself following the death of her husband.

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W.K. Norton | 0:00
Grace E. Magro | 1:18
Dorothy Jean Purcell | 2:03
Pauline Otton | 3:03
"Pigeon Goldie" Osgood | 4:00
The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez | 5:05
Johann "Jack" Unterweger | 6:23
Robert Sullivan | 7:38
Elisa Lam | 8:10
AHS: Hotel | 9:47
Still open | 11:11

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