Elizabeth Short (b. 7/29/24) lived in Massachusetts, Florida, and California, finally moving to Los Angeles (LA) in 1946. Her severely mutilated, nude body, cut in half and bloodless, was found in a vacant lot by a woman who was walking with her child in the Leimert Park section of LA at around 10 a.m. on January 15, 1947. Police determined that she died 10 hours earlier.

The press called her “The Black Dahlia,” possibly in reference to “The Blue Dahlia,” a murder mystery released in April, 1946. “Time” later called her murder one of the world’s most famous unsolved cases, and it is one of the LAPD’s oldest cold cases.

Investigators—750 from the LA Police Department, California State Patrol, and Sheriff’s Office—conducted an extensive search and interviewed 150 suspects. A $10,000 reward was posted. Many confessions—all false, some drawing “obstruction of justice” charges—were made.

Friends and acquaintances said that Elizabeth Short wanted to become an actress. Although had no acting credits, her story was told in print, on television, and in a 2006 film.

A dancer, singer, and, most famously a pin-up girl during World War II, Betty Grable appeared in more than 60 films, beginning at age 12. Between 2008 and 2014, Liz Valery appeared in dozens of pornographic works and on television. In 1464, Elizabeth Woodville married her second husband, King Edward IV, and became queen of England, the White Queen during the War of the (Red and White) Roses.

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