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Black Dahlia

STORY PREFACE

She was a good girl.
She was a good girl!

Phoebe Short
After identifying the remains of her daughter
Elizabeth (“Betty”) Short

Los Angeles, California
January, 1947

Witnesses last saw Elizabeth Short, a beautiful 22-year-old woman, leaving the Biltmore Hotel at around 10:00 p.m. on January 9, 1947. She was not seen again until a passerby found her mutilated body one week later. (The link is a 21-minute black/white documentary on the case.)

Where was Elizabeth during that week? Why has her still-unsolved murder fascinated people for nearly sixty years? Why are sections of the investigative record, usually made public, still sealed after so many decades?

And how did she get these injuries which the coroner noted, in the death certificate, as the immediate cause of her demise:

Hemorrhage and shock due to
concussions of the brain and
lacerations of the face.

 

Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.

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Bos, Carole D. "Black Dahlia" AwesomeStories.com. Date of access
       <http://www.awesomestories.com/flicks/black-dahlia>.

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