Getty Images Richard Ramirez was ultimately convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, and 11 sexual assaults. And with corpses of junkies reportedly often found in the alleys near the hotel and sometimes even in the hallways, Ramirez’s blood-soaked lifestyle surely raised nary an eyebrow at the Cecil. In the mid-1980s, Richard Ramirez - murderer of 13 people and better known as the “Night Stalker” - lived in a room on the top floor of the hotel during much of his horrific killing spree.Īfter killing someone, he would throw his bloody clothes into the Cecil Hotel’s dumpster and saunter into the hotel lobby either completely naked or only in underwear - “none of which would have raised an eyebrow,” writes journalist Josh Dean, “since the Cecil in the 1980s… ‘was total, unmitigated chaos.'”Īt the time, Ramirez was able to stay there for a mere $14 per night. While tragic calamities and suicide have contributed heavily to the hotel’s body count, the Cecil Hotel has also served as a temporary home for some of the grisliest murderers in American history. In light of the suicides, mishaps, and murders, Angelinos promptly dubbed the Cecil “the most haunted hotel in Los Angeles.” A Serial Killer’s Paradise
If he had jumped, his shoes would have fallen off mid-flight. Police initially thought the two had committed suicide together but reconsidered when they found Giannini was still wearing shoes. Wikimedia Commons Outside Los Angeles’ Cecil Hotel, host of numerous murders and suicides. She went to the bathroom so as not to disturb a sleeping Levine, and - to her complete shock - gave birth to a baby boy. In September 1944, 19-year-old Dorothy Jean Purcell awoke in the middle of the night with stomach pains while she was staying at the Cecil with Ben Levine, 38. The next few decades only saw more violent deaths. Less than four years later, Roy Thompson of the Marine Corps jumped from atop the Cecil Hotel and was found on the skylight of a neighboring building. In 1934, for example, Army Sergeant Louis D. A few residents ingested poison, while others shot themselves, slit their own throats, or jumped out their bedroom windows. In the 1930s alone, the Cecil Hotel was home to at least six reported suicides. Suicide And Homicide At “The Most Haunted Hotel In Los Angeles” Worse yet, the Cecil Hotel ultimately earned a reputation for violence and death. The once beautiful hotel soon gained a reputation as a meeting place for junkies, runaways, and criminals. Soon enough, the area surrounding the Cecil Hotel would be dubbed “Skid Row” and become home to thousands of homeless people.
Just two years after the Cecil Hotel opened, the world was thrown into the Great Depression - and Los Angeles was not immune to the economic collapse. Alejandro Jofré/Creative Commons The marble lobby of the Cecil Hotel, which opened in 1927.īut Hanner would come to regret his investment.
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