Black Dahlia's case became highly publicized owing to the gruesome nature of the crime, which included the mutilation of her corpse, which was bisected at the waist.
11 Facts About Black Dahlia
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Black Dahlia's mother sent her to spend winters with family friends in Miami, Florida, for the next three years.
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Black Dahlia left Lompoc in mid-1943 and moved to Santa Barbara, where she was arrested on September 23,1943, for drinking at a local bar while underage.
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Black Dahlia accepted his offer, but Gordon died in a second crash on August 10,1945, less than a week before the end of the war.
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Black Dahlia has been variously described and depicted as an aspiring or "would-be" actress.
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Black Dahlia had several cuts on her thigh and breasts, where entire portions of flesh had been sliced away.
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Black Dahlia claimed he was close to arresting Wilson in Short's murder, but that Wilson died in a fire on February 4,1982.
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John Gilmore's 1994 book Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder, 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.
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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.
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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.
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Black Dahlia finally returned to the East Coast in the 1970s, where she lived into her 90s.