Forever Unsolved — True Crime

The Tragedy of Pigeon Goldie

The 65-year-old was raped and murdered in the infamous Cecil Hotel, LA.

Jessie London
6 min readFeb 15, 2021

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Graphic created by the Author — Sources for Newspaper Article 1 & Article 2

The Cecil Hotel is now globally renowned, and for all of the wrong reasons.

The latest Netflix docu-series, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, highlights the hotel’s disturbing past and present, through an exploration of the sad case of Elisa Lam.

Residents from across the decades have suffered enormously within the walls of the hotel. Some guests have terrorized the USA whilst enjoying the hospitality and relative anonymity offered by the establishment.

With serial killer ‘tenants’ such as ‘The Night-StalkerRichard Ramirez, and Jack Unterweger, notable associations such as The Black Dahlia and high profile deaths like Elisa Lam, The Cecil Hotel isn’t short of A-list criminals and victims. Films, documentaries, and books about all of these are readily available and regularly rehashed.

For tourists who happen to be visiting Los Angeles, you can take a dedicated tour around the outside of the building, and cruise the adjacent Skid Row streets as you listen to the stories of the killers and killed from an enthusiastic guide.

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Jessie London

Full-time Author & Writer of fiction & fact. British lady who loves tea with milk and bland biscuits.