![]() Going by the name Morbid, he was corpse painted to the nines and sang about all the things you want a death metal musician to sing about: blood, misery, murder. He started out with thrash, before submerging himself fully into the genre’s more extreme corners.Ĭut to 2013, and Vergara was pretty much your typical death metal musician. The answer for Vergara was obvious: metal. But as he became more skilled, he quickly found himself craving more of a challenge – something faster and more technical. As a teenager coming of age as grunge swept the globe, Vergara picked up a guitar and started playing along to his cardigan-clad heroes. His journey into metal was a familiar one. He spent some time in Europe where he had a number of bands and projects in different countries, before heading to the US, yo-yoing between coasts and eventually settling in New York where he currently resides. It doesn’t really matter if what you’re saying is true or not when you have a scapegoat and enough people willing to believe you.īorn in Mexico City, Vergara was raised in Monterrey before he embraced life as a self-professed “world traveller”. Web sleuths, they argue, don’t have access to the evidence – autopsies, toxicology reports, bank records – they do, and they get fixated on theories with little evidence to back them up.Īnd when those theories gain enough momentum, they can become dangerous. But if you ask the authorities, they’re generally less enthusiastic. Web sleuths argue that they’re helping that they’re willing to put the hours in in a way overworked police departments can’t. What that documentary makes clear is that getting this involved in an investigation this complex, even on an amateur basis, takes a lot of time – hours a day, for weeks or even months at a time. In the process of their investigations, they manage to accidentally help bring down wanted serial killer Luka Magnotta. The series follows the story of a group of online amateur detectives who band together in the hopes of finding the person behind a series of disturbing YouTube videos in which kittens are graphically tortured. The concept of a web sleuth is something you might be familiar with if you’ve seen Netflix documentary Don’t Fuck With Cats. The video was unsettling enough to catch the attention of a community of web sleuths, and the case exploded. A turning point in the case came when the LAPD made the mistake of releasing a video of Lam’s final moments, filmed in a hotel elevator, as an appeal for information. But when Lam first disappeared, speculation was feverish – and the longer the case remained a mystery, the more far-fetched the theories about what had happened to her became. In the end, the police findings around Lam’s strange death – which is the subject of new Netflix documentary Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel – were pretty cut and dry: Lam had stopped taking the medication she needed to manage her bipolar disorder and had a psychotic episode as a result, during which she climbed into a water tank on the hotel’s roof and drowned. ![]() But much as the Cecil Hotel had a reputation with locals and regulars, to Lam – and many of the other young tourists who used it as a base – it was just a cheap place to call home for a few nights. Paranormal or not, it was a dangerous place to wind up. Some speculated that the hotel was cursed possessed by a malevolent force that drew in LA’s most nefarious characters. ![]()
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