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A motion by city officials for Los Angeles to enter into a master lease with the Skid Row-adjacent Cecil Hotel for a permanent housing program to address homelessness on Thursday advanced in the Homeless and Poverty Committee.

A skid row hotel best known for its grisly Netflix true crime examination of a young woman’s mysterious death is now for sale.

William Earl Variety and Rolling Stone are pleased to announce programming for the inaugural Truth Seekers virtual summit on Aug. 26, presented by Showtime Documentary Films.

Nick Jonas, Kate McKinnon, Ego Nwodim and other SNL castmembers prove that morbid murder shows and docuseries are good enough to inspire a pop song.

true-crime docuseries,, which pieces together her final days while staying at the Cecil Hotel. The four-part series directed by Joe Berlinger also shines a light on the Los Angeles location’s nefarious past, which contributed to the many conspiracy theories attempting to explain what happened to Lam, including wrongfully accusing singer Pablo Vergara, who was known as Morbid, of somehow being involved.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” streaming now on Netflix.From his “Paradise Lost” trilogy that began in 1996 to his 2009 documentary “Crude” that looked at the pollution of the Amazon, documentarian Joe Berlinger has spent a lot of time in his career and his personal philanthropy exposing false narratives and telling stories of wrongful convictions.

place like Cecil Hotel, which has been the location of many murders, overdoses and suicides and even inspired.

We’re all mad for a good crime series, with the likes of the Pembrokeshire Murders and Night Stalker being two of the most talked-about shows in January.

Netflix has released its first trailer for a terrifying new true crime documentary which takes a look at the blood-soaked history of the infamous Cecil Hotel. Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel follows the ghoulish events that took place at the titular hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, California, in 2013.

Netflix have released the trailer for their upcoming new true crime series, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. And fans of the genre are already counting down the days until it airs in February, thanks to the show’s gripping and chilling central case.The anticipated four part series follows one of the US’ most mysterious disappearances – that of Canadian tourist Elisa Lam who seemingly vanished into thin air in 2013 after acting erratically.

Netflix has made a name for itself in the true crime game, with series like Making a Murderer and more recently Nightstalker.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNetflix has set new docuseries “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” about the mysterious disappearance of Elisa Lam, for a Feb. 10 premiere, Variety has learned exclusively.The four-episode season comes from executive producer and director Joe Berlinger, who sets out to deconstruct what really happened to college student and tourist Lam, who stayed at the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles in February 2013.