Anyone here familiar with the : Black Dahlia" murder and If so, what is all about? Was the case ever solved?

This story was on 48 hours (CBS show) last night. Check out this link or go to 48 hours website.





http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/2...

Anyone here familiar with the : Black Dahlia" murder and If so, what is all about? Was the case ever solved?
Here's an author who thinks he has the solution:


Donald H. Wolfe, author of "The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, The Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles" (ReganBooks, January 2006).





According to his publisher, Wolfe was allowed access to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office files on the case and "has discovered evidence hidden from the public for over fifty years." Wolfe "assembles all the missing pieces of the Black Dahlia murder puzzle and names the notorious psychopathic murderer who once wandered the labyrinthine corridors of power that crisscrossed the shadowy underworld of the City of the Angels."
Reply:In 1947 and aspiring actress was found murdered and her body dis membered in Los Angeles. The case was never solved.
Reply:I don't believe it was ever solved. The murdered woman was named I believe , Elizabeth Short, but they called her the Black Dahlia because she had jet black hair and wore black clothing alot. I believe the murder took place in the mid forties or perhaps the late thirties in Hollywood. It's a very famous case.
Reply:It's the Jon Benet case of 1940's LA. Still unsolved. A young actress come to LA seeking fame and fortune. Winds up dead and dismembered. Lots of names were suspected as having connections with it. None proven. The name comes from the tabloids tendency to use flower nicknames for crimes in LA.
Reply:it has never been solved - and the woman elizabeth or amanda short ( i never remember the first name) she was violently murdered cut in half and many other awful things. but there is also a band by the same name that is pretty freaking good
Reply:Look it up! And they are makeing a movie so go see that too!
Reply:One morning in the 1940s a woman walking her dog spotted what she thought was a disassembled mannequin scattered in a vacant Los Angeles lot. To her horror, the woman found that it was actually the dismembered corpse of a young female murder victim, cut completely in half at the stomach.





Two very shocking aspects of the case were sensationalized by the press. First, the victim's blood had been drained and the corpse carefully cleaned. Second, it appeared that many of her horrible wounds, including having her mouth slashed open from ear to ear, were suffered while she was still ALIVE.





The woman was identified as Elizabeth Short, one of many young girls who had come to LA hoping to make it as an actress, but had been getting by as a waitress and possibly a prostitute. The tabloids nicknamed her the "Black Dahlia" in part because of her jet black hair.





The gruesomeness of the case made it the biggest story of the day and the city was shrouded in fear. The fact that there were so few leads caused all sorts of wild theories...some even saying that she was killed in some kind of ritual by a secret group of LA's elite....The case has never been solved.