Posted on 07/15/2021 5:52:52 PM PDT by Beowulf9
The notorious Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles in 1947 is arguably the most gruesome of America's cold cases ever.
The body of aspiring starlet Elizabeth Short was found beside a sidewalk in a vacant lot in a southern Los Angeles suburb and shocked even the most hardened newspaper crime reporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Can you be an “aspiring starlet”? Surely any wannabe actress aspires to be a star, while being a “starlet” is far less successful.
What’s the equivalent for actors, “bit-part hunk”?
“What’s the equivalent for actors, “bit-part hunk”?”
With L.A. housing so expensive a young female relative moved in with four ‘aspiring actors’
One of them got a lead in a commercial making a few thousand.
His response: Great! Now I don’t have to work for the rest of the year.
This grieves me.
Every couple of years it’s “solved!”
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Here are five simple reasons that Dillon did not kill Elizabeth Short:
5. Leslie Dillon was cleared by police after an exhaustive investigation.
4. Leslie Dillon had no connection to Mark Hansen, the business manager at the Florentine Gardens. (For those who are new to the Black Dahlia case, Elizabeth Short stayed at Mark Hansen’s home while she was in Hollywood).
3. Leslie Dillon did not have advanced medical training, which the killer of Elizabeth Short displayed in cutting her body in half. (Dillon worked at a funeral home in Oklahoma City for three weeks — as an ambulance driver.)
2. Leslie Dillon had no connection to Elizabeth Short.
1. Leslie Dillon was absolutely, positively in San Francisco when Elizabeth Short was killed.
Yes, and of course for years it’s been the same repeat story, till I read this one. That poor girl.
Poster idol?
Certainly many male singers in the 50s and 60s were willing to fit that bill (akin to a starlet, and not much depth).
In this account it his mentioned that her father faked his own suicide.
Wasn’t there one theory that her father had done it?
Is it possible that some of his knowledge of the case came from someone telling him these things (the killer or someone who’d heard the details from the killer)?
Wasn’t Hodel the killer?
The case files had been pawed through so much that the info was hardly secure. Also the autopsy report went “missing” from the case long ago.
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An author, Steve Hodel, thinks his father did it.
“That is more gruesome than I ever imagined. I never realized the horrific magnitude of the crime until this article.”
AGREE! It’s frightful.
I thought they had a pretty convincing case against George Hodel, LAPD’s go-to abortionist at the time. Even his own daughter or granddaughter wrote a book implicating her father/grandfather in the murder (and several others as well). The book was the source material for a dramatic mini-series a couple years ago called ‘I am the Night.’ (or something like that).
Hodel was a strange, strange wholly evil guy...as I imagine many abortionists are. Of course, they’ve ‘proven’ a dozen or more people were the killer and probably had just as many or more confessions over the years.
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