The fascination with the life and mysterious death of Elizabeth Short, nicknamed "The Black Dahlia," continues almost 70 years after her gruesome death.
On the morning of January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger was walking with her daughter down a residential street in Los Angeles when she spotted what she at first thought was a broken mannequin. Upon closer inspection, she discovered the hideous truth. Short's body was cut in half and lying face up in the dirt. She was drained of all her blood and gashes were sliced into each corner of her mouth.
Short, 22, hailed from Massachusetts and drifted from state to state before trying her hand at an acting career in Hollywood. She was not successful and during her short tenure in Los Angeles she waited tables and moved from boarding house to boarding house.
Two weeks after her body was found her personal belongings – photographs, her birth certificate, her social security card, and her address book – were mailed to the Los Angeles Examiner. Gasoline had been used to wipe the package and its contents clean of fingerprints.
Over 60 people have confessed to killing Elizabeth Short and while some suspects appear to be viable leads, time is running out – her murder will likely never be solved.
this is so sad I feel so bad for short, what did she ever do them? I hope you guys found out the real perp to this murder. this is just so wrong!
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