In 1931, the 46-year-old Manhattan Beach resident W.K. Norton committed suicide in his Cecil Hotel room right after checking in by overdosing on pills. More suicides took place afterwards.

And in 1962, after an argument with her husband, 27-year-old Pauline Otton jumped from the 9th-floor window of her room at the hotel. Just before she hit the ground, she landed on a 65-year-old passerby, George Gianinni. They both died instantly.