"The Black Dahlia Murder (band) The Black Dahlia Murder is an American death metal band from Waterford, Michigan, formed in 2001. Their name is derived from the 1947 unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, often referred to as Black Dahlia. The band currently comprises lead vocalist Trevor Strnad, rhythm guitarist Brian Eschbach, bassist Max Lavelle, drummer Alan Cassidy, and lead guitarist Brandon Ellis. Out of the eight studio albums they have released to date, the last seven have charted on the U.S. ""Billboard"" 200, with their fifth album ""Ritual"" peaking at No. 31 in 2011, marking them as one of the"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"as billing patients for tests that were never performed. At about this time, Hodel moved to China where he had earlier worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. These events first came to public attention in 2004. In January 1947, the body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was discovered in an empty lot in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Short had suffered gruesome mutilation, notably her body being cut in half at the waist. The case earned major publicity and prompted one of the largest investigations in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department. The case"
"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"
"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"
"the most extensive non-fiction accounts of Elizabeth Short's murder. The grisly 1947 murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué Elizabeth Short, known even before her death as the ""Black Dahlia,"" has over the decades transmogrified from L.A.'s crime of the century to an almost mythical symbol of Hollywood Babylon/film noir glamour-cum-sordidness. The book offer a documented solution to the case as endorsed by law enforcement and forensic science experts. Through the narrative, Gilmore, whose father was an LAPD officer at the time of the murder, unravels the multilayered mystery of Short's slaying. Gilmore tells several previously unrevealed stories at once,"
"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"
"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"
"South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, and that Short was to meet her sister, who was visiting from Boston, that afternoon. By some accounts, staff of the Biltmore recalled having seen Short using the lobby telephone. Shortly after, she was allegedly seen by patrons of the Crown Grill Cocktail Lounge at 754 South Olive Street, approximately away from the Biltmore Hotel. On the morning of January 15, 1947, Short's naked body was found severed in two pieces on a vacant lot on the west side of South Norton Avenue, midway between Coliseum Street and West 39th Street (at )"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"in El Monte in 1958 by that time, and all had been resolved very quickly. After all the leads went dry, the case was eventually abandoned and never solved. The murder of Geneva Ellroy (who was more commonly called Jean) later contributed to her son's fascination with another unsolved murder in Los Angeles: the January 15, 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short. This killing, later called the Black Dahlia case, had some similarities to Jean Ellroy's murder. Both had been body dumped by the roadside to be found by passersby. In his book, Ellroy describes the discovery of his mother’s body"
"around it in the late 20th century. Several of Los Angeles's more notable murders have happened at or have connections to the hotel: Elizabeth Short, victim of the Black Dahlia murder, the city's best-known unsolved killing, supposedly made the Cecil her last stop before her death, and in 1964, Goldie Osgood, the ""Pigeon Lady of Pershing Square,"" was raped and murdered in her room at the Cecil, another crime that has never been solved. Serial killers Jack Unterweger and Richard Ramirez, the ""Night Stalker"", both resided at the Cecil while active. There have also been suicides, one of which also"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"15, 1947, Elizabeth Short's body was discovered in a vacant lot. Officers Dwight ""Bucky"" Bleichert and Leland ""Lee"" Blanchard, partners and local celebrities from their boxing days, aid the investigation. The next novel, ""The Big Nowhere"", takes place in the early 1950s amidst the Red Scare in Hollywood. Former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective Buzz Meeks, who now works as an enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen and a pimp for Howard Hughes, gets caught up in a communist investigation that has ties to a series of homosexual murders that are being investigated by a sheriff's deputy named Danny Upshaw."
"been committed to Atascadero State Hospital, but this institution did not open until 1954. The character Madeleine is committed there (ch. 3-5), but the hospital's patient population was historically limited to men. The Black Dahlia (novel) The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Its subject is the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California, which received wide attention because her corpse was horrifically mutilated and discarded in an empty residential lot. The investigation ultimately led to a broad police corruption scandal. While rooted in the facts of the Short murder and"
"The Black Dahlia (novel) The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Its subject is the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California, which received wide attention because her corpse was horrifically mutilated and discarded in an empty residential lot. The investigation ultimately led to a broad police corruption scandal. While rooted in the facts of the Short murder and featuring many real-life people, places and events, Ellroy's novel blends facts and fiction, notably in solving Short's crime when in reality her murder was unsolved. James Ellroy dedicated ""The Black Dahlia"", ""To"
"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"
"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"
"few weeks after it occurred. Although this ""breakthrough"" was quickly dismissed by the original investigators, the Los Angeles press covered it enthusiastically until it was revealed that Dumais had been at Fort Dix at the time of the murder. Dumais was cleared of any involvement in the crime, although he continued to claim he killed Short each time he was arrested for various offenses, well into the 1950s. Hansen was a Hollywood nightclub owner at whose home Short lived, either as a paying boarder or as a guest, on several occasions between May 1946 and October 1946. Hansen's girlfriend Ann"
"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"
"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 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"
"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"