On the morning of January 15, 1947, a mother taking her child for a walk in a Los Angeles neighborhood stumbled upon a gruesome sight: the body of a young naked woman sliced in half at the waist.  For over 70 years the mystery of who killed The Black Dahlia has perplexed the police, the FBI and  arm chair detectives and website warriors alike. Armed with the LAPD and FBI files we begin  part one of our 3 part series, where we focus on the victim. A girl just 22 years old who lost her life in the most vile and violent way. We want to give her name back, remind everyone that the Black Dahlia wasn't just a moniker or a sensation, she was a girl, a real life person who didn't deserve what happened to her in life or after death. Meet Elizabeth Short.

Elizabeth in high school around age of 15/16

Elizabeth's High School photo age 16

Elizabeth in Florida near the age of 20

Elizabeth with Matt Gordon

Mug Shot taken in Santa Barbara, do you agree with Cat that her eyes are so haunting in this photo?

 

https://www.amazon.com/Childhood-Shadows-Hidden-Dahlia-Murder/dp/1585004847

Book Tress is reading, written by a childhood friend and neighbor of Elizabeth Short and the Short family

 

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Below is a  list of resources  used during the research and telling of this story. (partial) 

The Black Dahlia parts 1-3

Resources

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/the-black-dahlia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/black-dahlia

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1867198_1867170_1867291,00.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/26/black-dahlia-murder-steve-hodel-elizabeth-short

http://blackdahlia.web.unc.edu/

https://stevehodel.com/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/has-the-black-dahlia-murder-finally-been-solved-198247/

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/the-black-dahlia-murder/

Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FlqnCf1LZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKEfFfFBKo

https://www.insideedition.com/black-dahlia-murder-true-story-50461

https://www.horrorgalore.com/true-story/horrifying-mystery-black-dahlia-documentary

Books

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Dahlia-Avenger-True-Story/dp/0061139610

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Dahlia-James-Ellroy/dp/0446618128

https://www.amazon.com/Severed-Story-Black-Dahlia-Murder/dp/187892317X

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Dahlia-Red-Rose-Corruption/dp/1631492268

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Dahlia-Files-Transfixed-Angeles/dp/0060582502

https://www.amazon.com/Childhood-Shadows-Hidden-Dahlia-Murder/dp/1585004847

https://www.amazon.com/Exquisite-Corpse-Surrealism-Dahlia-Murder/dp/B00WZTZOU

http://www.piueatwell.com/black-dahlia-red-rose

and of course Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, Newspaperarchives, FamilySearch.org

 

 

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