10 Facts About Black Dahlia

Black Dahlia's case became highly publicized owing to the gruesome nature of the crime, which included the mutilation and bisection of her corpse.

Black Dahlia's mother sent her to spend winters with family friends in Miami, Florida, for the next three years.

Black Dahlia left Lompoc in mid-1943 and moved to Santa Barbara, where she was arrested on September 23 for drinking at a local bar while underage.

Black Dahlia accepted his offer, but Gordon died in a second crash on August 10,1945.

Black Dahlia had several cuts on her thigh and breasts, where entire portions of flesh had been sliced away.

The 2017 book Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piu Eatwell focuses on Leslie Dillon, a bellhop who was a former mortician's assistant; his associates Mark Hansen and Jeff Connors; and Sergeant Finis Brown, a lead detective who had links to Hansen and was allegedly corrupt.

Black Dahlia further suggests 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.

Black Dahlia's father, Richard F Williams, was a member of the LAPD's Gangster Squad investigating the case.

Black Dahlia claimed he was close to arresting Wilson in Short's murder, but that Wilson died in a fire on February 4,1982.

Black Dahlia finally returned to the East Coast in the 1970s, where she lived into her nineties and died in 1992.