Who Really Killed the Black Dahlia?

Why was the Black Dahlia murder never solved? In January 1947, Elizabeth Short, 22, was found dead in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. Seven hundred and fifty investigators worked the case, more than 500 people have confessed, and nobody has ever been charged. This Black Dahlia documentary tells the whole story from the record: who Elizabeth Short really was, the week nobody can account for, the newspapers that named her, the letters signed "Black Dahlia Avenger", and every suspect who mattered. Not the legend. She was not an actress, the prostitute story comes from a novel, and nobody knows for sure where the name came from. Here is what the record shows, and where it runs out. This historical true crime documentary covers Elizabeth Short's life in Boston, Medford, Miami, Vallejo, Santa Barbara and Hollywood, Major Matthew Gordon, Robert "Red" Manley, the Biltmore Hotel and the missing week, Leimert Park, the Los Angeles Examiner and the Herald-Express, Wain Sutton's phone call to her mother, the Black Dahlia name, the Avenger's envelope and letters, Mark Hansen, the 750-man search, the Venice note, the 1949 grand jury, the false confessions, Janice Knowlton, Dr. George Hodel and the 1950 tapes, Steve Hodel's book, Leslie Dillon, Walter Bayley, Jack Anderson Wilson, the myths, and California's sex offender registry. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Black Dahlia: a phone call in 1947 1:47 Who was Elizabeth Short? 2:48 Elizabeth Short's father and the letter 3:53 Did the Black Dahlia have a boyfriend? Major Gordon 4:28 Was Elizabeth Short an actress? 5:20 Who was the Black Dahlia last seen with? 6:20 Where was the Black Dahlia found? 7:23 The Examiner's beauty contest trick 8:20 Why was she called the Black Dahlia? 9:25 Who was the Black Dahlia Avenger? 11:13 The first suspects: Mark Hansen and Red Manley 13:04 Was the Black Dahlia case ever solved? 13:59 How many people confessed to the Black Dahlia murder? 15:06 Did George Hodel kill the Black Dahlia? 17:21 Black Dahlia suspects list: Dillon, Bayley, Wilson 18:29 Black Dahlia myths vs the record 19:49 What happened after: the law and her grave 20:27 Six days nobody can account for Elizabeth Short is shown and told only as she lived. Nothing about her injuries is described, and no picture of the scene or of her after death is used. This documentary is built on the Wikipedia articles on the case and the records and books they cite: the LAPD and FBI files, the Los Angeles district attorney's files, Larry Harnisch's research, Piu Eatwell's Black Dahlia, Red Rose (2017), William J. Mann's work on the case, the 1949 grand jury, and the newspapers of 1947. Every Crime Ledger episode is the whole story of one infamous case, with myths told as myths and no gore. SOURCES Wikipedia: "Black Dahlia", "George Hodel", "Medford, Massachusetts", and the books and records they cite: Harnisch, Eatwell (2017), Mann, Gilmore, the FBI's files, the DA's Hodel-Black Dahlia file (2003). PICTURES (all public domain; from the LAPD, the FBI, the Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons) Elizabeth Short: Santa Barbara police photograph, 1943; LAPD special bulletin, January 1947; the FBI's 1943 photographs and fingerprint Russell Lee, Los Angeles and Hollywood, April 1942: a newsstand at Sunset and Vine, shoppers, a young woman with a suitcase (Library of Congress) Marjory Collins: the New York Times telegraph room, 1942 (Library of Congress) Tichnor Brothers postcards: the Biltmore Hotel, Hollywood Boulevard, Cahuenga Pass, Los Angeles City Hall, Long Beach, Medford High School The Florentine Gardens (Los Angeles Times, 1939); the Examiner building (postcard); downtown Los Angeles, about 1946 (Pettit's Studio) Mare Island Navy Yard, 1942 (U.S. Navy); Georgia Street, Vallejo (Zan postcard); Miami Beach, 1940s (postcard) The Hollywood Canteen, 1943 (CBS); The Blue Dahlia (Paramount, 1946), lobby card Woody Guthrie, 1943 (Al Aumuller, New York World-Telegram); Benjamin Siegel, 1928 (New York police) Maps: Natural Earth (public domain); places are approximate MUSIC "Aftermath" and "Stay the Course" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Crime Ledger: the whole story of history's most infamous crimes. Subscribe:    / @crimeledgerhistory   #BlackDahlia #TrueCrime #HistoricalTrueCrime #UnsolvedMysteries #CrimeDocumentary #ColdCase #CrimeLedger