On June 4, 1964, she was found dead in her room at the hotel. She was robbed, raped, strangled, and then stabbed. Her attacker had not been identified. A bag of birdseed was found next to her body.

On a shooting rampage – Jeffery Thomas Paley

In 1976, a former mental patient from Oakland named Jeffery Thomas Paley decided to do something that would call the authorities’ undivided attention: shoot a loaded firearm from the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel.