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Tragic story of mum who threw baby from Cecil Hotel window after giving birth in bathroom
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
