What is the "Lan" incident?

The death of Lan refers to the events of Canadian Chinese Lan (or, in English: Lan Keer,1991April 30-2013)1in cecil hotel, downtown Los Angeles, USA, from October to February. (cecil hotel) a drowning man in a water tower on the roof.

Because of its bizarre place of death and a series of strange actions taken by the monitor in the hotel elevator before its disappearance, it has become the focus of attention. On June 20th, the Los Angeles County Forensic Medicine Office determined that Lan died of accidental drowning according to the autopsy results, and that Lan suffered from bipolar disorder according to his behavior before his death? Bipolar disorder is the main factor leading to its death.

Extended Information Legal Daily: The murder case is still an accident, and the "Lan case" is still pending.

In American criminal investigation, it is customary to separate the way of death from the cause of death. In the United States, there are five ways of death: suicide, homicide, accidental death, natural death and unknown cause of death. As for the causes of death, there are more than 30 kinds, such as burning, killing, drowning, poisoning, shooting, knife injury and so on.

LAPD must first determine whether the deceased fell into the water before or after death. Everything depends on the evidence. On this basis, the police finally came to a conclusion.

As for whether there is a murder suspect in this case, the Los Angeles police launched a dragnet investigation according to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law, asking relevant parties and arranging suspects. Once the police feel that the answers of the "interviewees" may lead to court testimony against them, they must make oral and written reminders according to the standard procedure of "Miranda warning".

If the "suspect" suspected of committing the alleged crime may take actions to destroy evidence and threaten witnesses, the police have the right to detain him for 48 hours and apply for formal arrest. Looking at this case, this aspect is lacking.

More than four months after the incident, the autopsy room of the local police station passed autopsy, laboratory tests and comparative analysis, and found no clues to solve the case, no suspicious trauma, no signs of poisoning or drug abuse.

The police claimed that there was evidence that Lan Keer was obviously prone to bipolar disorder and had been ill for a long time, which may be an important cause of her death. Maybe this is why Lan's parents kept a low profile after the incident.

The police stressed that the door leading to the top floor is a fire escape door, which cannot be locked according to regulations and must be kept open. In response to questions from the outside world about how Lan climbed into the water tank, she was naked when she was salvaged. The police explained that the diameter of the water tank was 1.37 meters and the depth was 2.44 meters, which was not high and it was easy to climb up. The aluminum cover on the water tank is light, so it is not difficult to open it. As for whether the deceased took off his clothes before he died or fell after soaking, it is difficult to draw a conclusion.

Due to external pressure, LAPD deliberately played down the impact of the case, and did not hold a press conference to explain it publicly, nor did it announce the autopsy results in official website, so it kept a low profile. It wasn't suicide, it wasn't homicide, and Lan actually died. Although the American people are not satisfied with closing the case, it is acceptable.

Baidu Encyclopedia-The Death of Lan

People's Daily Online-Legal Daily: The murder case is still an accident, and the "Lan case" is still pending.