Elizabeth Short Research Paper
Elizabeth Short known like “The Black Dahlia” was a lovely young lady born on
July 29, 1924 in Boston Massachusetts. The third of five daughters their parents
were Cleo and Phoebe Short. Cloe left and Phoebe had to be a solo parent. Cloe
abandoned the family when she was five. By the age of fifteen she had already
dreamed of being an actress and made it one of her goals. She would always wear
all black. She quit school on her sophomore year. Elizabeth moved to Los Angeles
at the age of twenty-two to support herself while dreaming of being an actress in
Hollywood. She worked in a bar as a waitress. She would sleep with men that had
connections with film making so they could help her break into the Hollywood
fame. She would …show more content…
rarely talk to her family so she was pretty much alone.
By 1947 Elizabeth was living in Los Angeles she was twenty-two by that time.
And one night she went missing. She went missing six days from January nine to
January fifteen. While a lady was walking in Leimert Park four to six feet away was
a bush of Black Dahlia’s, on top of that bush was Elizabeth short Sliced in half but
not even one drop of blood which meant this crime was committed elsewhere.
The murderer had used a knife to slash 3-inch gashes into the corners of her
mouth. And posed her like a mannequin the lady and people thought she was a
mannequin thrown away. The corpse also had the initials “BD” carved in her.
There was rope marks on her wrists and ankles. They already had her finger prints
because she applied for a job as a clerk of the Army’s camp cook. Also because
she had been arrested by the Santa Barbara Police for underage drinking seven
months later.
Their was letter’s sent to the police office making up false information causing
the police office to have difficulty locating the murderer. One of all those letter’s
contained the victims birth certificate and national security card this was mailed
anonymously and did not help. There was twenty-five suspects total. The
time
passed and passed and they would not get any closer to finding the murderer so
they decided to drop the case due to all the time that had passed. In early 2013
an article in the San Bernardo Sun detailed a more recent investigation that was
put on by a retired police Paul Dostie, author Steve Hodel had said that his father
was the murderer of “The Black Dahlia”. There
July 29, 1924 in Boston Massachusetts. The third of five daughters their parents
were Cleo and Phoebe Short. Cloe left and Phoebe had to be a solo parent. Cloe
abandoned the family when she was five. By the age of fifteen she had already
dreamed of being an actress and made it one of her goals. She would always wear
all black. She quit school on her sophomore year. Elizabeth moved to Los Angeles
at the age of twenty-two to support herself while dreaming of being an actress in
Hollywood. She worked in a bar as a waitress. She would sleep with men that had
connections with film making so they could help her break into the Hollywood
fame. She would …show more content…
rarely talk to her family so she was pretty much alone.
By 1947 Elizabeth was living in Los Angeles she was twenty-two by that time.
And one night she went missing. She went missing six days from January nine to
January fifteen. While a lady was walking in Leimert Park four to six feet away was
a bush of Black Dahlia’s, on top of that bush was Elizabeth short Sliced in half but
not even one drop of blood which meant this crime was committed elsewhere.
The murderer had used a knife to slash 3-inch gashes into the corners of her
mouth. And posed her like a mannequin the lady and people thought she was a
mannequin thrown away. The corpse also had the initials “BD” carved in her.
There was rope marks on her wrists and ankles. They already had her finger prints
because she applied for a job as a clerk of the Army’s camp cook. Also because
she had been arrested by the Santa Barbara Police for underage drinking seven
months later.
Their was letter’s sent to the police office making up false information causing
the police office to have difficulty locating the murderer. One of all those letter’s
contained the victims birth certificate and national security card this was mailed
anonymously and did not help. There was twenty-five suspects total. The
time
passed and passed and they would not get any closer to finding the murderer so
they decided to drop the case due to all the time that had passed. In early 2013
an article in the San Bernardo Sun detailed a more recent investigation that was
put on by a retired police Paul Dostie, author Steve Hodel had said that his father
was the murderer of “The Black Dahlia”. There