"Daniel S. Voorhees Daniel S. Voorhees (born 1913) was a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short on January 28, 1947. He asked members of the Los Angeles Police Department to meet him in downtown Los Angeles, at 4th Street and Hill Street (Los Angeles). Voorhees was eliminated as a suspect in the Black Dahlia slaying because his handwriting did not match that in the killer's note. Voorhees spent the night in the Los Angeles County Jail after he told LAPD detective E.R. Barrett that he met Elizabeth Short on Hill Street two weeks earlier. He"
"Black Dahlia Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – January 14 or 15, 1947), known posthumously as the ""Black Dahlia"", was an American woman who was found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Her case became highly publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime, which included her corpse having been mutilated and bisected at the waist. A native of Boston, Short spent her early life in Massachusetts and Florida before relocating to California, where her father lived. It is commonly held that Short was an aspiring actress, though she had no known acting credits or"
"examining the contents of her stomach. This claim has been denied by Harnisch and is also not indicated in Short's official autopsy, though it has been reprinted in several print and online media. According to newspaper reports shortly after the murder, Short received the nickname ""Black Dahlia"" from staff and patrons at a Long Beach drugstore in mid-1946 as wordplay on the film ""The Blue Dahlia"" (1946). Other popularly-circulated rumors claim that the media crafted the name due to Short's adorning her hair with dahlias. However, reports by DA investigators state that the nickname was invented by newspaper reporters covering"
"the bisected body of a young woman was found in Leimert Park near thirty-ninth and Norton. According to Underwood, she was the first reporter to arrive at the body dump site. The dead woman was soon identified as Elizabeth Short from Medford, Massachusetts. Underwood stated in her autobiography, ""Newspaperwoman"", that the popularization of Short's ""Black Dahlia"" nickname was the result of information she had received from a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective. In the midst of reporting on the Black Dahlia case, Underwood was promoted to city editor of the ""Herald-Express"". Underwood said that she had been pulled from"
"jobs during her time in Los Angeles. She would acquire the nickname of the Black Dahlia posthumously (after the owner of a drugstore in Long Beach, California told reporters that male customers had that name for her), as newspapers of the period often nicknamed particularly lurid crimes; the term may have originated from a film noir murder mystery, ""The Blue Dahlia"", released in April 1946. After the discovery of her body on January 15, 1947, the Los Angeles Police Department began an extensive investigation that produced over 150 suspects, but yielded no arrests. Short's unsolved murder and the details surrounding"
"it have had a lasting cultural intrigue, generating various theories and public speculation. Her life and death have been the basis of numerous books and films, and her murder is frequently cited as one of the most famous unsolved murders in American history, as well as one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles County. It has likewise been credited by historians as one of the first major crimes in post-World War II America to capture national attention. Elizabeth Short was born in the Hyde Park section of Boston, Massachusetts, the third of five daughters of Cleo and Phoebe"
"Black Dahlia suspects Many Black Dahlia suspects, or persons of interest, have been proposed as the unidentified killer of Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the ""Black Dahlia"", who was murdered in 1947. Many theories have been advanced, but none have been found to be completely persuasive by experts, and some are not taken seriously at all. The murder investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department was the largest since the murder of Marion Parker in 1927, and involved hundreds of officers borrowed from other law enforcement agencies. Sensational and sometimes inaccurate press coverage, as well as the nature of the crime, focused"
"from police and other reporters to protect its scoop. The ""Examiner"" and another Hearst newspaper, the ""Los Angeles Herald-Express"", later sensationalized the case, with one article from the ""Examiner"" describing the black tailored suit Short was last seen wearing as ""a tight skirt and a sheer blouse"". The media nicknamed her as the ""Black Dahlia"" and described her as an ""adventuress"" who ""prowled Hollywood Boulevard"". Additional newspaper reports, such as one published in the ""Los Angeles Times"" on January 17, deemed the murder a ""sex fiend slaying"". On January 21, 1947, a person claiming to be Short's killer placed a"
"files of the Los Angeles Police Department, a birthday gift from his father), was an important event of Ellroy's youth. Ellroy's inability to come to terms with the emotions surrounding his mother's murder led him to transfer them onto another murder victim, Elizabeth Short. Nicknamed the ""Black Dahlia,"" Short was a young woman murdered in 1947, her body cut in half and discarded in Los Angeles, in a notorious and unsolved crime. Throughout his youth, Ellroy used Short as a surrogate for his conflicting emotions and desires. His confusion and trauma led to a period of intense clinical depression, from"
"""Examiner"". Soon afterward, the FBI identified the victim as Elizabeth Short. In the early afternoon of January 16 an ""Examiner"" extra hit the streets, again beating the competition. The ""Examiner"" identified Short and provided details of her life growing up in Massachusetts, and details of her adult life in Santa Barbara and later in Los Angeles. The ""Examiner"" noted that Short had lived in Los Angeles for a period of time before moving to various other cities in the pursuit of jobs and men. She returned to Los Angeles in 1946 and lived in hotels and rooming houses while visiting"
"De Palma. Both Ellroy's novel and its film adaptation bear little relation to the facts of the case. Short was also portrayed in heavily fictionalized accounts by Lucie Arnaz in the 1975 television film ""Who Is the Black Dahlia?"", and again by Mena Suvari in the series ""American Horror Story"", in 2011 featuring Short in the plot line of the episode ""Spooky Little Girl"", and again in 2018 with ""Return to Murder House"". Black Dahlia Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – January 14 or 15, 1947), known posthumously as the ""Black Dahlia"", was an American woman who was found murdered"
"Elizabeth Short's murderer. Women answering an ad for a movie audition are systematically killed by Satan worshippers. One of the policemen becomes obsessed with the story of Elizabeth Short, researches the original 40s murder online, and dreams about it. Eventually, he comes face-to-face with the killers. The film showcases four violent death sequences. The actresses whose characters are brutally killed are, in order of appearance, Lorielle New, Laura Leigh Hofrichter (as ""Laura Leigh""), Crystal Nelson, and Jana Laurin. Production of ""Ulli Lommel's Black Dahlia"" took place in Marina Del Rey, California and at the Lincoln Heights Jail. an abandoned jail"
"planning to opening a restaurant there. The ""Examiner"" was the first newspaper to break the story of the 1947 dismemberment murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who was ultimately dubbed the Black Dahlia by ""Los Angeles Herald-Express"" crime reporter Bevo Means. ""Examiner"" news reporter Will Fowler was on another assignment with photographer Felix Paegel on January 15, 1947, when they heard a radio call of a mutilated female body found in a vacant lot on Norton Avenue in the Leimert Park area of Los Angeles. Fowler and Paegel arrived before police and observed the female body. Fowler claimed in his autobiography"
"least, all young women whose nude bodies were found in two pieces on vacant lots were beautiful. I never forgot it."" Later in his career, Smith wrote that he always believed himself to be the first person to get the name ""Black Dahlia"" into print, though he admitted he didn't come up with the nickname. Smith had picked up a tip that Elizabeth Short had frequented a Long Beach drugstore. Upon calling and speaking to the pharmacist, Smith was told that the kids around the soda fountain called her the Black Dahlia, on account of her black hair and in"
"at 10:45 A.M. He checked out of the hotel on the morning of January 16, 1947. The hotel owner stated that he had not seen Voorhees after this date. A person with the exact name and birth year died in 2004: Name: Daniel S Voorhees Birth Date: 27 Oct 1913 Death Date: 30 May 2004 Cemetery: Tahoma National Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Kent, King County, Washington, United States of America Has Bio?: N Spouse: Georgia E Voorhees Daniel S. Voorhees Daniel S. Voorhees (born 1913) was a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short on"
"murder less than a month prior, surmising the initials ""B.D."" to stand for ""Black Dahlia"". According to historian Jon Lewis, however, the scrawling actually read ""P.D."", ostensibly standing for ""police department"". Crime authors such as Steve Hodel (son of George Hill Hodel) and William Rasmussen have suggested a link between the Short murder and the 1946 murder and dismemberment of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan in Chicago, Illinois. Captain Donahoe of the LAPD stated publicly that he believed the Black Dahlia and the Chicago Lipstick Murders were ""likely connected"". Among the evidence cited is the fact that Short's body was found on"
"Celtic ""tree alphabet"") signed his real name, H O D E L, placing it both as the return address on the envelope and as a signatory inside the card which read, ""You Ache to Know My Name...I'll Clue you in..."" The code had remained undeciphered for 45 years. George Hill Hodel George Hill Hodel Jr. (October 10, 1907 – May 16, 1999) was an American physician. After the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. the Black Dahlia, police came to consider Hodel a suspect. He was never formally charged with the crime, and came to wider attention as a suspect"
"more frequent. The first documented suicide at the Cecil was reported in 1931 when a guest named W.K. Norton died in his room after taking poison capsules. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, more suicides at the Cecil occurred. By the 1960s, longtime residents had begun to call the Cecil ""The Suicide."" In addition to suicides, the Cecil's history includes other kinds of violence and salacious happenings. It also became a notorious rendezvous spot for adulterous couples, drug activity and prostitution. In 1947 Elizabeth Short, dubbed by the media as the Black Dahlia, was rumored to have been spotted drinking at"
"Black Dahlia (film) Black Dahlia is a 2006 United States production horror film inspired by the mysterious unsolved murder of the""Black Dahlia"", Hollywood actress Elizabeth Short. Instead of dramatizing the infamous 1947 murder of Short and the ensuing investigation, writer-director Ulli Lommel follows a series of contemporary L.A.-area homicides patterned after the 1947 slaying. Lions Gate Entertainment distributes this film on DVD. In a brief prologue set in 1947, Elizabeth Short (Danielle Petty, as ""Ivy Elfstrom"") is murdered by an unseen assailant. In present-day Los Angeles, a ""copycat"" serial killer is dumping partially mutilated female bodies in an emulation of"
"on the NBC series ""Unsolved Mysteries"" in 1992, in which Eliot Ness biographer Oscar Fraley suggested Ness knew the identity of the killer responsible for both cases. The February 10, 1947 murder of Jeanne French in Los Angeles was also considered by the media and detectives as possibly being connected to Short's killing. French's body was discovered in west Los Angeles on Grand View Boulevard, nude and badly beaten. Written on her stomach in lipstick was what appeared to say ""Fuck You B.D."", and the letters ""TEX"" below. The ""Herald-Express"" covered the story heavily, and drew comparisons to the Short"
"with an unidentified visitor, saying: ""Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn't prove it now. They can't talk to my secretary because she's dead."" In 1991, Janice Knowlton, a woman who was ten years old at the time of Short's murder, claimed that she witnessed her father, George Knowlton, beat Short to death with a clawhammer in the detached garage of her family's home in Westminster. She also published a book titled ""Daddy was the Black Dahlia Killer"" in 1995, in which she made additional claims that her father sexually molested her. The book was condemned as ""trash"""
"names an A.L. Landers as the proprietor of the drugstore, though he does not provide the store's name. Prior to the circulation of the ""Black Dahlia"" name, Short's killing had been dubbed the ""Werewolf Murder"" by the ""Herald-Express"" due to the brutal nature of the crime. Many true crime books claim that Short lived in or visited Los Angeles at various times in the mid-1940s, including Gilmore's ""Severed"", which claims she worked at the Hollywood Canteen. This is disputed by Harnisch, who states that Short did not, in fact, live in Los Angeles until after the canteen's closing in 1945."
"head, her elbows bent at right angles, and her legs spread apart. Upon the discovery, a crowd of both passersby and reporters began to gather; ""Los Angeles Herald-Express"" reporter Aggie Underwood was among the first to arrive at the scene, and took several photos of the corpse and crime scene. Near the body, detectives located a heel print on the ground amid the tire tracks, and a cement sack containing watery blood was also found nearby. An autopsy of Short's body was performed on January 16, 1947, by Dr. Frederick Newbarr, the Los Angeles County coroner. Newbarr's autopsy report stated"
"in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. At the time, the neighborhood was largely undeveloped. Local resident Betty Bersinger discovered the body at approximately 10:00 a.m. while she was walking with her three-year-old daughter. Bersinger initially thought she had found a discarded store mannequin. When she realized it was a corpse, she rushed to a nearby house and telephoned the police. Short's severely mutilated body was completely severed at the waist and drained entirely of blood, leaving its skin a pallid white. Medical examiners determined that she had been dead for around ten hours prior to the discovery, leaving her time of"
"Dorothy Short Dorothy Short (29 June 1915 – June 4, 1963) was an American film actress, mainly in low-budget Westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of Philadelphia, she married actor Dave O'Brien in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie ""Reefer Madness"", which in modern times has become a well-known cult film. She also appeared in another antimarijuana film ""Assassin of Youth"" in 1937. She often appeared alongside her husband in various 'B' pictures and the Pete Smith series of comedy shorts, in which O'Brien played the lead on many occasions"
"that Short was killed at the Aster Motel in Los Angeles, where the owners reported finding one of their rooms ""covered in blood and fecal matter"" on the morning Short's body was found. The ""Examiner"" stated in 1949 that LA Police Chief WIlliam A. Worton denied that the Flower Street [Aster] Motel had anything to do with the case, although its rival newspaper, the ""Los Angeles Herald"", claimed that the murder took place there. Eatwell is working on a television documentary, and a revised edition of her book is due to be released in the autumn of 2018. In 2000,"
"her in June 1949. (LAPD at that time was actively investigating the Louise Springer and Black Dahlia murders and had publicly identified them as ""probably connected."" Mrs. Springer was sadistically murdered on June 13, 1949, just two blocks from where the body of Elizabeth Short was found in 1947.) Included in the letter was the fact that LAPD after being informed that ""GH"" knew victim Springer that ""GH"" was taken in ""and grilled about the Springer murder."" The Martin Letter made it clear that ""GH"" was known and protected by law enforcement officers, and that they befriended him and ""let"
"intense public attention on the case. As the case continues to command public attention, many more people have been proposed as Short's killer, much like London's ""Jack the Ripper"" murders. Because of the complexity of the case, the original investigators treated every person who knew Elizabeth Short as a suspect who had to be eliminated. Hundreds of people were considered suspects and thousands were interviewed by police. About 60 people confessed to the murder, mostly men but including a few women. However, 25 people were considered to be viable suspects by the Los Angeles County District Attorney: People dismissed as"
"by men. Since that time, over 500 people have confessed to the crime, some of whom had not even been born at the time of her death. Sergeant John P. St. John, a detective who worked the case until his retirement, stated, ""It is amazing how many people offer up a relative as the killer."" In 2003, Ralph Asdel, one of the original detectives on the case, told the ""Times"" that he believed he had interviewed Short's killer, a man who had been seen with his sedan parked near the vacant lot where her body was discovered in the early"
"Best Cinematography at the 79th Academy Awards, losing to ""Pan's Labyrinth"". Mia Kirshner's performance as Short was also widely praised. On January 15, 1947, LAPD Detectives Dwight ""Bucky"" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard investigate the murder and dismemberment of Elizabeth Short, soon dubbed ""The Black Dahlia"" by the press. Bucky learns that Elizabeth was an aspiring actress who appeared in a pornographic film. Through his investigation, Bucky learns that Elizabeth liked to hang out with lesbians. He goes to a lesbian nightclub and meets Madeleine Linscott, who looks very much like Elizabeth. Madeleine, who comes from a prominent family, tells Bucky"
"She remained with the show for all of the show's six seasons through 2009. In 2006, she starred in Brian De Palma's ""The Black Dahlia"" in which she plays the young aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose mutilation and murder in 1947 remains unsolved. While the film itself was critically panned, many reviews singled out her performance for acclaim. Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com, in a largely negative review, notes that the eponymous character was ""played wonderfully by Mia Kirshner..."" Mick LaSalle wrote that Kirshner ""makes a real impression of the Dahlia as a sad, lonely dreamer, a pathetic figure."" J. R."
"as a ""classic late night body dump."" Jean Ellroy’s murder would not be remembered because it lacked the media attention that followed the Dahlia murder. Elizabeth Short’s body was found cut in half, and the newspaper accounts, which described Short as a beautiful Hollywood aspiring starlet, drew more interest and attention, including Ellroy's. In ""The Black Dahlia"", Ellroy created a fictional story around the murder of Elizabeth Short. In ""My Dark Places"", Ellroy writes a true-crime memoir, chasing down the facts of his mother's murder as a cold case. Bill Stoner is the retired L.A. investigator who assisted Ellroy in"
"by Knowlton's stepsister Jolane Emerson in 2004, who stated: ""She believed it, but it wasn't reality. I know, because I lived with her father for sixteen years."" Additionally, Detective St. John told the ""Times"" that Knowlton's claims were ""not consistent with the facts of the case"". John Gilmore's 1994 book """", suggests a possible connection between Short's murder and that of Georgette Bauerdorf, a socialite who was strangled to death in her West Hollywood home in 1944. Gilmore suggests that Short's employment at the Hollywood Canteen, where Bauerdorf also worked as a hostess, could be a potential connection between the"