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The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, California is no stranger to tragedy.
Since it opened in 1927, there have been several unexplained deaths, suicides and murders at the hotel.
Currently, one of the mysterious cases is being explored in Netflix’s latest true crime documentary series called Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.
It takes a deeper look at the case of Elisa Lam, who went missing while staying at the Cecil Hotel in 2013.
Unfortunately, this is just one of the tragic cases to happen at the Cecil Hotel.
One of the youngest victims at the Cecil Hotel was killed in September 1944 – and it’s one of the most tragic cases in the hotel’s history.
19-year-old mother Dorothy Jean Purcell didn’t know she was pregnant when she woke up in the middle of the night with stomach pains next to her 38-year-old partner.
Not wanting to wake shoe salesman Ben Levine, she reportedly went to the bathroom and delivered the baby herself.
Believing the baby was stillborn, she threw her newborn out of a “high window” rather than telling the man she was with.
The lifeless baby was found on a roof adjacent to the building.
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The LA Times wrote at the time: “County Autopsy Surgeon Frank R Webb, however, declared the baby was born alive, his lungs having filled with air.”
Jean was eventually arrested, but at trial she was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
Psychologists determined she was “mentally confused,” and she was admitted to a hospital for psychiatric treatment.
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