The Black Dahli An Unsolved Murder Case

Who is the Black Dahlia? A shockingly evil, extremely gruesome, and vile case, about a woman who was brutally murdered and never figured out by whom. Why would anyone want to kill her, was there a reason, or just for fun? The Black Dahlia is an unsolved murder from January of 1947, about a beautiful woman who had no reason to be tortured and brutally murdered. Stay tuned for more information about this interesting and twisted case!

Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia was the victim of an unsolved murder that took place in 1947. She was only 22. Her body was found on the morning of Wednesday 15 January 1947 on a vacant building plot in the Leimert Park district of Los Angeles California. Short spent the last six months of her life in

Betty Bersinger and her daughter Anna were walking down Norton Avenue. It was a brisk morning, just after 10:00 AM, when Beth saw something a foot or so away from the sidewalk. She thought it was a broken store mannequin. When she looked closer, she saw the horrible truth. It was the naked body of a woman, and she was severed in half. The terrified woman ran with her child to the closest house that, thankfully, had a telephone. Los Angeles Examiner reporter Will Fowler heard the call come over the radio. He was two blocks away with photographer Felix Paegel. It was hard to miss the pale, bloodless corpse lying in the weeds. Before long, reporters and law enforcement swarmed the area. Officers Frank Perkins and Will Fitzgerald arrived on the scene and were horrified by what they saw. The dead woman was cleaned, shampooed, and her skin sheet-white. Her killer severed through her torso with a procedure called a “Hemicorporectom.” She was posed with her arms over her head. It took 56 minutes for police to identify her as Elizabeth Short. Her fingerprints matched in the sistemas she was arrested for underage drinking back in ’43. The autopsy was conducted on the morning of January 16, 1947 the attendance was limited to two coroners, Harry Hansen, and Ray Pinker. But the autopsy was conducted by Dr. Frederick Newbarr, Chief Autopsy Surgeon for the County of Los Angeles, with Dr. Victor Cefalu assisting. They ruled her cause of death to be cerebral hemorrhage and shock, due to deep knife lacerations of the face, slicing from ear to ear to create a Glasgow smile, and repeated blows by a heavy metal object to the face and right forehead. They estimated the time of death was within 24 hours of the discovery of the corpse. Both forensic pathologists ruled the other mutilations and injuries were post-mortem. No indication of sexual assault. A bisection was (“hemicorporectomy”) performed with a different instrument than the one that was used to slash her