Elizabeth Short
On January 15,1947 a woman by the name of Betty Bersinger was pushing her 3 year old daughter, Anne, in a stroller,bound for a shoe repair shop. As they passed the corner of norton and 39th they passed several vacant lots. Betty noticed something white,possibly a broken mannequin,over the weeds and shrugged it off since it wasn’t uncommon for people to throw garbage onto the lot at this time. She then caught a second glance at the mannequin to then realize it was actually a severed woman. With an intake of her breath and a stifled scream Betty took herself and her daughter to the nearest house and called the police from there. “I glanced to my right, & saw this very dead, white body” “My goodness...it was so white. It didn’t ...look like anything
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She was third of Cleo and Phoebe Shorts five daughters. Her father made a living off building miniature golf courses but in 1929 there was a stock market crash which caused him to lose a lot of money. Because of this he was no longer able to support his wife and five daughters and in the year 1930 he abandoned his family by staging a suicide. Elizabeth was only five when her father abandoned her family. Her mother continued to raise Elizabeth and her four sisters as a single mother. She would take Elizabeth’s and her sisters to the cinema once a week. This sparked Elizabeth’s interest in acting.Many years later Cleo sent a letter to his wife apologizing for abandoning his family, she refused to allow him to return.Elizabeth was easier to convince and managed to forgive her father. Cleo had been living in Vallejo, California. When Elizabeth was informed about her father's whereabouts she immediately reached out to him promising him housekeeping in exchange for a place to live. However, when Elizabeth moved in with her father she didn’t keep her end of the promise and instead of keeping the house clean, she was the reason why the home was in such disarray. After a few weeks their father-daughter relationship strained and Cleo told his daughter to leave his home in January
She was third of Cleo and Phoebe Shorts five daughters. Her father made a living off building miniature golf courses but in 1929 there was a stock market crash which caused him to lose a lot of money. Because of this he was no longer able to support his wife and five daughters and in the year 1930 he abandoned his family by staging a suicide. Elizabeth was only five when her father abandoned her family. Her mother continued to raise Elizabeth and her four sisters as a single mother. She would take Elizabeth’s and her sisters to the cinema once a week. This sparked Elizabeth’s interest in acting.Many years later Cleo sent a letter to his wife apologizing for abandoning his family, she refused to allow him to return.Elizabeth was easier to convince and managed to forgive her father. Cleo had been living in Vallejo, California. When Elizabeth was informed about her father's whereabouts she immediately reached out to him promising him housekeeping in exchange for a place to live. However, when Elizabeth moved in with her father she didn’t keep her end of the promise and instead of keeping the house clean, she was the reason why the home was in such disarray. After a few weeks their father-daughter relationship strained and Cleo told his daughter to leave his home in January