24 Facts About Georgette Bauerdorf

Georgette Elise Bauerdorf was an American socialite and oil heiress who was strangled in her home in West Hollywood, California.

Georgette Bauerdorf had an older sister, Constance.

Georgette Bauerdorf aspired to be an actress and moved to West Hollywood in August 1944.

Georgette Bauerdorf took an apartment at the El Palacio Apartments at 8493 Fountain Avenue and got a job working as a junior hostess at the Hollywood Canteen, where she danced with enlisted men.

The day before her death, Georgette Bauerdorf cashed a $175 check and purchased an airline ticket to El Paso, Texas, for $90.

Georgette Bauerdorf told friends that she was going there to rendezvous with her boyfriend, a soldier.

Jerome M Brown, an anti-aircraft artillery trainee stationed at Camp Callan, was identified by Fort Bliss authorities as the man Georgette had planned to visit.

Georgette Bauerdorf left for El Paso several days after their meeting, but the couple continued to correspond by letter.

Georgette Bauerdorf had put up a great struggle against her attacker.

Georgette Bauerdorf had been strangled with a piece of bandage material stuffed down her throat.

Penprase believed it unlikely that Georgette Bauerdorf was accompanied home by a serviceman.

Georgette Bauerdorf might have met someone at the canteen who drove her home and left her at the door, then later returned to kill her after she prepared for bed.

The walls and doors of Georgette Bauerdorf's apartment building were soundproofed; still, a neighbor, who requested anonymity, told Capt.

One particular soldier, described as "swarthy", was thought to have been infatuated with Georgette Bauerdorf and had cut in on her during nearly every dance on the night of her death.

Georgette Bauerdorf was a friend of another serviceman whose name was frequently mentioned in the diary.

Aadland wrote a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department recounting his encounter with Georgette Bauerdorf; he was later questioned by an officer from the provost martial's office, who took his testimony, but never heard anything else.

Georgette Bauerdorf recognized the sounds as coming from Georgette's apartment.

Two of the deputies confirmed the janitor's testimony that Georgette Bauerdorf was alone before her slayer evidently lured her to her darkened door.

Georgette Bauerdorf responded that he had never seen this happen before.

Yet the autopsy proved that Georgette Bauerdorf had fought hard to live.

Sam Wolf, brother of Georgette Bauerdorf's stepmother, denied that the victim suffered fainting spells.

Georgette Bauerdorf was buried in a Long Island cemetery plot the Bauerdorf family had maintained for generations.

Dr George Hodel was a top suspect for the Short murder, and his son Steve Hodel has suggested George killed both women due to certain similarities such as the fact that Georgette Bauerdorf was choked with a medical-grade bandage shoved down her throat and that in both cases the media received notes supposedly from the killer taunting the police and boasting of his skills.

However, though Hodel is considered the strongest suspect for the Black Dahlia murder, the critics say links between that case and that of Georgette Bauerdorf remains highly speculative.