Elisa Lam's body was found in a water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles after guests complained about low water pressure. Source: AP
A COUPLE on holiday in Los Angeles have told how they drank, showered and brushed their teeth with water from a rooftop tank at a hotel - where a woman's body had been decomposing for three weeks.
It was only when the bloated body of 21-year-old university student Elisa Lam was discovered this week that they found out why the hotel water tasted "funny".
Sabina Baugh, 27, spent eight days with husband Michael, also 27, at the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA.
The area has one of the highest crime rates in the city, so rather than go in search of bottled water at night, they drank from the tap.
Yesterday Mrs Baugh, a piano teacher, said: "The water did have a very funny, disgusting taste. We never thought anything of it. We thought it was just the way it was here."
Mr Baugh, a guitarist and music teacher, added: "The moment we found out, we felt sick to the stomach, quite literally. We're not well mentally. It's the psychological stuff. If you think about it, it's not good."
The couple also said water at the hotel, given a two-star rating on review site TripAdvisor, had been trickling from the tap. Other guests reported flooding. The couple, from Plymouth, are now staying in another part of the city and the authorities are testing the water in the area for contamination.
Police confirmed yesterday that the body was Elisa Lam, a student at the University of British Columbia in Canada, who was travelling to Santa Cruz in northern California when she disappeared at the start of the month to the distress of her family.
Police don't know how Miss Lam died or how she ended up in the tank on the roof of the hotel, which is protected by locked doors and an alarm.
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