Posted on 03/16/2024 7:19:53 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Emerging clues may shine a new light on Hollywood’s darkest tale: the shocking 1947 death of Elizabeth Short.
On January 15, 1947, an aspiring 22-year-old actress named Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California, her nude, posed body cut in half and severely mutilated.
“It was pretty gruesome,” Brian Carr, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who worked on Short’s case, later said. It was an understatement; Short’s killer had also drained her corpse of blood and scrubbed it clean. “I just can’t imagine someone doing that to another human being.”
In the press, Short became known as “The Black Dahlia,” and her case “took on a life of its own,” Carr said. “Early on, I think for two months it was front-page news in all the local papers every day.”
Seventy-seven years later, while the Black Dahlia Murder may not be front-page news, it’s still generating new true-crime investigations, fictionalized retellings, and even grisly in-person tours of the victim’s final known locations. That’s because the Black Dahlia’s killer was never found, and no one has satisfactorily offered proof for who committed the most infamous, sadistic act of unsolved murder in Hollywood history.
But people are still searching for that answer. And now, more than three-quarters of a century later, time might help us finally find it.
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Thank you for that. I will look that book up on amazon- I’m a who dun it junkie.
Woody is famously remembered for Huntington’s disease. Mental illness can be part of it’s sad consequences .
I read the entire article and didn’t notice what the ‘new evidence’ might be. Oh well.........
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There was an episode years ago of “Unsolved Mysteries” that suggested that a serial killer operating in Cleveland was scared out of town by Eliot Ness and wound up in California, where he continued to kill, was the murderer of the Black Dahlia.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=eliot+ness+serial+killer
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