Welcome to 'Hotel Death': Horrors of Los Angeles hotel where 'serial killers let their hair down' are laid bare in new Netflix series that details mysterious disappearances, suicides, and grisly murders Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is the first installment of the anthology series, which focuses on eerie places shrouded in murder and death There have been at least 16 deaths at the Cecil Hotel since it opened in 1927 Six people reportedly committed suicide in the hotel in the 1930s alone, while a teen mom threw her newborn baby out of the window after giving birth in 1944 'Pigeon' Goldie Osgood, a retired telephone operator, was found raped, strangled, and fatally stabbed at the Cecil Hotel in 1964