Michael Daniels (sound engineer)

Michael Daniels was an American sound engineer who worked at. He was the son of actors and.

Bio
Daniels was born in Los Angeles on May 6, 1958 to actors and.

Between 1982 and 1989, Daniels worked at as sound designer and sound effects editor. On December 23, 1989, Daniels resigned from Sprocket Systems.

Disappearance and death
On December 25, 1989, Daniels went back to Los Angeles and checked into the Cecil Hotel, near downtown's Skid Row. He was initially assigned a shared room on the hotel's fifth floor. Inside the hotel, Daniels, alone, makes unusual moves and gestures, leaving the elevator at one point while its doors remain open, even after she appears to have pressed every button. When the doors fail to close after he returns, he leaves; the doors close later. The footage was recorded by the surveillance camera and was posted by a YouTube user on November 12, 2006.

There had been reports that Daniels had gone missing after the footage was recorded. During the search for Daniels, guests at the hotel began complaining about low water pressure. Some later claimed their water was colored black and had an unusual taste. On the morning of December 28, Kai Davis, an English hotel maintenance worker, found Daniels' body in one of four 1,000-gallon (3,785 L) tanks located on the roof providing water to guest rooms, a kitchen, and a coffee shop, meaning that Daniels died drowning on December 26. Through the open hatch he saw Daniels lying face-up in the water. The tank was drained and cut open since its maintenance hatch was too small to accommodate equipment needed to remove Daniels' body.

The autopsy report and its conclusions were also questioned based on the incomplete information. For instance, it does not say what the results of the rape kit and fingernail kit were or even if they were processed. It also records subcutaneous pooling of blood in Lam's anal area, which some observers suggested was a sign of sexual abuse; one pathologist noted it could also have resulted from bloating in the course of the body's decomposition, and her rectum was also prolapsed. Even the coroner's pathologists appeared to be ambivalent about their conclusion that Daniels' death was accidental.