![]() She had been raped, stabbed, and beaten, and her room was ransacked. Ī hotel worker discovered Osgood, a retired telephone operator, dead in her room. Had he jumped, his shoes would have likely fallen off during the fall or upon impact, and his hands would not have been in his pockets. However, it was soon determined that Gianinni had his hands in his pockets at the time of his death, and he was still wearing shoes. As there were no witnesses, police initially thought Otton and Gianinni committed suicide together. Otton landed on a pedestrian, Gianinni, killing them both instantly. He had left the room prior to Otton's suicide. ![]() Otton jumped from the window of her ninth-floor room after an argument with her estranged husband Dewey. Louis, 59 cents in change, and an Illinois bank book showing a balance of $1,800. Among her possessions were a bus ticket from St. Moore jumped from the window of her eighth-floor room and landed in a second-story interior light well. One week prior, she had registered at the hotel under the name "Margaret Brown." Gurnee, a San Francisco stationery firm employee, jumped from the window of her seventh-floor room and landed on top of Cecil's marquee. Smith died after jumping from one of the Cecil's seventh-floor windows. In January 1945, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Three psychiatrists testified that she was "mentally confused" at the time of the incident. Thinking the baby was dead, she threw him out of the window, and he landed on the roof of an adjacent building. She later testified that she did not want to disrupt the sleeping Levine, so she went to the bathroom where she gave birth to a baby boy. Purcell, who had apparently been unaware that she was pregnant, went into labour. Purcell was sharing a room at the Cecil with her boyfriend, shoe salesman Ben Levine, 38. Dorothy eventually succumbed to the effects of the poisoning and died at General Hospital on Jan 12, 1940. Beforehand, Seger sent her relatives a note indicating she was going to end her life. Teacher Seger, who registered under the pseudonym Evelyn Brent, ingested poison on while staying at the Cecil and was reported by the Los Angeles Times to be "near death". Navy officer Neblett was found dead in his room after ingesting poison. Police were unable to determine whether Magro's death was the result of an accident or suicide. She later died at the now-demolished Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. Her fall was broken by telephone wires which were wrapped around her body. Borden left several notes, one of which cited poor health as the reason for his suicide. ![]() Borden was found dead in his room at the Cecil. In late July, former Army Medical Corps Sgt. Ī maid found Dodich dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. A week prior, he had checked into the Cecil under the name "James Willys" from Chicago. Norton was found dead in his room after ingesting poison capsules. In 2011, the hotel's name was changed to "Stay on Main" in an effort to distance the establishment from its past. Its reputation is due to at least 16 sudden or unexplained deaths that have occurred in or around the hotel. ![]() Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, in Downtown Los Angeles, it eventually became a budget hotel, hostel, and rooming house. Numerous incidents of deaths and violence have occurred at ] in Los Angeles. ![]()
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