The black dahlia??

With this new movie coming out, I started researching "The Black Dahlia", and I was wondering what kind of genital defect did Beth Short have that she couldn't have standard intercourse??

The black dahlia??
I seem to recall her vagina wasn't fully developed. This probably would have frustrated and even angered many potential partners, given her overall attractiveness. Very sad, strange story.
Reply:Whether her genitals were fully formed or not has never been confirmed officially, and since both those who argue "yes" and those who argue "no" BOTH claim to have seen the official autopsy report and that that report supports THEIR claim, it's impossible to say at this point. Report It

Reply:The movie that's coming out is based on a book by the guy who wrote L.A. Confidential. His mother was killed around the same time in what he feels is a similar way, so he thinks his mom and Elizabeth Short were killed by the same person.


If you've read a lot of non-fiction about the case, you'll likely be disappointed in the movie(I was disappointed by the book, and I like his writing).
Reply:(Man, I'm starting to HATE Yahoo Answers....haven't done this much looking up of stuff since I left school. Swear it's becoming an addiction...."just one more question!")





Pulled my copy of Michael Newton's _Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes_ (Checkmark Books/Facts on File, 2004) and looked up the case. He's got a copy of the autopsy report, done by Dr, Frederick Newbarr, in the text. NOT going to key in all that material, but my preliminary reading (as a generalist nurse, not an OB-gyn specialist) does not seem to indicate anything unusual in terms of Short's female anatomy; negative for pregnancy and examiner commented spermatazoa samples were taken.


Newton's comments, p. 39-40: "...only Short's head and facial wounds were inflicted while she lived, and those are listed as the cause of death. What followed afterward, as grisly as it was, did not amount to torture (as described in many popular amounts of the crime), since the victim was already dead. The autopsy also debunks a host of other myths about Short's death....Her genitals were not deformed or 'infantile', incapable of sexual intercourse, as later claimed in one 'solution' to the case."


Newton denies teeth punched out, skin burns of any type, sliced off breasts or earlobes missing, or anything carved into the skin. (The autopsy report would rather have reflected THAT finding!)


Haven't seen the movie, but suspect that somebody needed to get a lot of hype and scare in, and said "heck with the facts; what's going to sell at the box office?"

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