And the medical examiner found fecal matter in her stomach, suggesting she had been forced to eat it before being killed.ĭespite a lengthy investigation, during which hundreds of officers interviewed anyone they could find who had even the most minimal contact with Short, the Los Angeles Police Department never arrested anyone for her murder, and eventually the case went cold. Slashes carved on either side of her mouth created the look of a maniacal grin. The murder was a particularly brutal one. Newspapers covering the case dubbed her “the Black Dahlia,” and the moniker became far more widely known than Short’s own name. The victim was Short, a 22-year-old native of Medford, Massachusetts, one of countless Hollywood hopefuls who had gravitated to Southern California with dreams of a movie career. On January 15, 1947, a local resident found the mutilated body of a young woman in a vacant lot on South Norton Avenue, near L.A.’s Leimert Park.
Elizabeth Short's murder remains one of the oldest cold cases in Los Angeles-and the most sensational killing in a notoriously dark period of the city’s history.
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