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The 1947 murder of a 22-year-old Hollywood hopeful in Los Angeles has never been solved. On the morning of January 15, 1947, a mother taking her child for a walk in a Los Angeles neighborhood ...
- Story on Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia Murder. Read About It in FBI Records....
- Elizabeth Short
Elizabeth Ann Short, aka “The Black Dahlia” In 1947, a...
- The Vault
Explore the FBI's vault of documents related to the Black...
- Story on Black Dahlia
- The Murder of Elizabeth Short
- The Press Gets Involved in The Black Dahlia Murder Investigation
- The Man Who Thinks His Father Killed Elizabeth Short
- Did Leslie Dillon Murder The Black Dahlia?
On January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short’s dead body was foundin the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park. The first person who reported the grisly sight was a mother out for a morning walk with her child. According to the woman, the way Short’s body had been posed made her think that the corpse was a mannequin at first. But a closer look revealed ...
As the media learned more about Elizabeth Short’s history, they began to brand her as a sexual deviant. One police report read, “This victim knew at least fifty men at the time of her death and at least twenty-five men had been seen with her in the sixty days preceding her death… She was known as a teaser of men.” They gave Short the nickname, “The...
Shortly after his father’s death in 1999, now-retired LAPD detective Steve Hodel was going through his dad’s belongingswhen he noticed two photos of a woman who bore a striking resemblance to Elizabeth Short. After discovering these haunting images, Hodel began using the skills he had gained as a policeman to investigate his own deceased father. Ho...
In 2017, British author Piu Eatwell announced that she had finally solved the decades-old case, and published her findings in a book called Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder. The real culprit, she claimed, was Leslie Dillon, a man who police briefly considered the primary suspect but u...
Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – c. January 14–15, 1947), known as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947. Her case became highly publicized owing to the gruesome nature of the crime, which included the mutilation of her corpse, which was ...
Sep 30, 2020 · The full details of the Hodel investigation were only revealed in 2003, when a “George Hodel/Black Dahlia File” was discovered in the vault at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, which revealed Hodel as the prime suspect during the 1950’s in the Black Dahlia murder case. Upon Hodel’s death, his son Steve Hodel, a former ...
