Police in Los Angeles have now confirmed the body discovered earlier Tuesday is that of Elisa Lam.
They have also informed her parents in Vancouver.
21 year old Elisa had been missing three weeks.
Elisa had been stayiing at the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA since Jan. 31.
LAPD officer Sarah Faden says police were called to the hotel this morning after workers made a grisly discovery while investigating complaints of reduced water pressure, "A maintenance worker went up on top of the roof to the water tanks where they discovered a female in her 20s inside the tank."