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On January 15, 1947,Elizabeth Short’s dead body was discovered on a Los Angeles sidewalk.
“Who killed the Black Dahlia and why? It’s a mystery,” reads theFBI’s official websitepage dedicated to the case.
Short’s case is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood murders, still garnering attention from people around the world.
When her body was found, it had been bathed and drained of blood, with her face mutilated to make her look like a clown. Because her body was so cleanly cut, many people wondered if someone in the medical field could be responsible for the crime.
Years later in 2003, a retired LAPD detective wrote a book pointing to his father, gynecologist George Hodel, who died in 1999, as the murderer. Hodel and Short had dated prior to her death.
The lack of blood at the scene where Short was found led investigators to consider other locations where she could have been murdered. Many theorized she was killed at Hodel’s Los Feliz estate, whichsold for $5 millionin 2018.
Despite leads throughout the investigation, the FBI was never able to match DNA to anyone in their database.
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After searching for new clues, receiving false confessions and hitting many dead ends, The Black Dahlia case has left people with little hope that it will ever be solved.
“The murderer has never been found, and given how much time has passed, probably never will be,” the FBI site says.
source: people.com
