What's the black dahlia?

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What's the black dahlia?
The Black Dahlia





Elizabeth Short was born on July 29, 1924 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Little did she know that 22 years later she would be the victim of one of the most gruesome murders America has ever seen. Elizabeth Short, who was nicknamed the Black Dahlia, was sadistically murdered in 1947 in California. This case is one of the most publicized and talked about in history. Elizabeth Short was brutally tortured and killed by Arnold Smith, who then deposited her body in an abandoned lot in Los Angeles.


The Black Dahlia was born in Hyde Park, Massachusetts to her mother, Phoebe Mae, and her father, Cleo Short. She had four sisters. Her father, Cleo Short, abandoned his family in October of 1930. She spent her summers in Medford, Massachusetts and her winters in Florida. She had many nicknames such as “Bette”, “Betty”, or “Beth”, and the widely known, “Black Dahlia.” Her friends gave her the nickname in her teens because of her stark black hair, all black clothing and


the dahlias, large bright flowers, that she wore in her hair. When Short was nineteen she moved to Vallejo, California to live with her father. The two moved to Los Angeles in early 1943, but Short left almost immediately due to an argument with her father. She was arrested on more than one occasion for underage drinking and after the second time was sent back home to Medford. Short soon returned to California and visited her hometown in Massachusetts every few months.


Elizabeth was rumored to have possibly been a prostitute, or “woman of the night” as she dated many men, and had many admirers. Some believe that this led to her murder, that possibly an ex-boyfriend or someone she may have turned down became enraged and murdered the young woman. It was later proven in her autopsy that she was born with a genital defect, preventing her from having normal intercourse, disproving rumors of her being involved with prostitution, or sleeping with many men. One career Elizabeth did pursue was acting. She dreamt of being a celebrity and living a life in the spotlight. She frequented celebrity hotspots such as nightclubs, and bars. She was also rumored to have an alcohol addiction problem.


Elizabeth never lived in one place for more than a few weeks. She often stayed in hotels, apartment buildings, boarding homes and private homes. Past neighbors, and owners of the places where Short stayed said she often didn’t pay her rent, or got behind very quickly. The last place she was seen alive was the


Biltmore Hotel the night of January 9, 1947 .


Elizabeth Short was found dead in a vacant lot on Norton Avenue, nicknamed “Lovers Lane”, in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. Her body was found by Betty Bersinger, who was taking her three year old daughter for a morning walk on her way to the cobbler. It wasn’t difficult to spot Short’s body, as it was placed less than five feet from the sidewalk. When police arrived at the scene they saw a most horrific sight. A young woman who had been severed in half at the third lumbar of her spine. Elizabeth Short had been bound and tortured before she was murdered. Marks on her upper thighs, wrists, ankles, and abdomen show that she was bound by either rope, wire, or possibly both. Short’s hair had been hennaed and it was wet at the time that her body was discovered, also, her entire body had been washed clean. She had three inch cuts from the corners of her mouth towards her ears on both sides of her face. There were three large lacerations just above her right eyebrow and there were multiple cuts across her face. Elizabeth had been beaten in the head and suffered a brain concussion as well. Her breasts had been close to completely mutilated, there were large cuts on her chest, abdomen and groin, and she had been slashed from her vagina to her rectum. A criss-cross pattern had been cut into the pubic area, and Short had been repeatedly sodomized both before and after death. She had a tattoo of a rose on her left thigh. The skin and muscle where


Short had the tattoo had been completely cut away from her body. This section of skin had been forced inside the rectal cavity, and grass and her own pubic


hair were forced inside her vagina. Several small shapes had been cut from her skin, and were found nearby by investigators. After a five hour long autopsy, the final causes of death were determined to be a brain concussion, and exsanguinations, or, bleeding to death, most often from hemorrhaging. The injuries to the head and face were the main sight of the hemorrhaging. It is likely that Short was alive to be tortured, and cut in half, only to die after bleeding to death. Most of these actions are classified as sexually sadistic and the suspect is thought to have possibly been a sex fiend who had tried to have his way with Elizabeth, but was refused by her.


The main suspects in the Black Dahlia case were Cecil French, Daniel Voorhees, and Jack Anderson Wilson, AKA Arnold Smith. Arnold Smith was a thin man, about 6 feet 4 inches tall, who walked with a limp and had a long rap sheet for robbery and sexual offenses. This man went by Arnold Smith, one of the aliases for Jack Wilson. Arnold Smith claimed that a man named Al Morrison confessed to him all the details of how he murdered the Black Dahlia. Arnold Smith said that Al Morrison confessed that he had taken Short to a room in a Hollywood hotel. Short had been surprised that he (Morrison) was planning to stay in the room too and refused the alcohol he offered. She was uninterested in a fling with him, so Morrison


took her to a house on East 31st Street, where they had a physical altercation. Morrison knocked her out and got a paring knife, large butcher knife, and some


clothesline. When Short revived and tried to escape, he stuffed her underpants into her mouth and tied her up. He proceeded to stab her numerous times until she


expired. Then he cut her in half in the bathtub to drain her body of blood. He washed everything clean, then took her out and placed her in the vacant lot. Not long after he gave this story to the police, Arnold Smith admitted that he, himself, was Al Morrison and confessed once again to the Black Dahlia murder. Smith could not be charged without hard evidence because of the possibility that he was just another confessing sam longing for fame. Hard evidence could not be found within the hotel room that was mentioned because the room burned down and any evidence that there might have been burned with it. To this day it is believed that Jack Anderson Wilson, or as he is called, Arnold Smith, murdered Elizabeth Short. He knew all the details of the murder to make the scene and story complete. He also knew about things that were done to Elizabeth’s body that had not been publicized in the media.


The Black Dahlia was one of the most tragic murder cases America has ever seen, and the most gruesome as well. Arnold Smith heartlessly killed Elizabeth Short and degraded her by mutilating her body and dumping it in a vacant lot, only


to have the horrible incident publicized and viewed by many, it is most likely that this is exactly what the killer wanted.














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Reply:Elizabeth Short was not a prostitute, nor did she have a tattoo. Report It

Reply:Referring to the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947. Her body was discovered severely mutilated.
Reply:It's actually a flower
Reply:The only "Black Dahlia" I've ever heard about was the moniker the police and newspapers gave to a girl named Elizabeth Short,who was found in an empty lot in Los Angeles,horribly mutilated(she was cut in half and cut across the face from ear to ear)While ther are many theories as to the identity of her killer,the case was never solved and remains unsolved to this day.A film was made last year about a fictionalized investigation into the murder and it was pretty good.


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Reply:HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD LYRICS





My Black Dahlia








[The Server aka Endless Summer 2:]


I loved you, you made me, hate me.


You gave me, hate, see?.


It saved me and these tears are deadly.


You feel that?


I rip back, every time you tried to steal that.


You feel bad? you feel sad?


I'm sorry, hell no **** that!


It was my heart, it was my life, it was my start, it was your knife.


This strife it dies, this life and these lies.


And these lungs have sung this song for too long, and its true I hurt too, remember I loved you!





[Chorus - Tha Producer aka Da Seducer:]


I've , Lost it all, fell today, It's all the same


I'm sorry oh


I'm sorry no


I've , been abused, I feel so used, because of you


I'm sorry oh


I'm sorry no





[J-Dog aka The Flat Iron Chef:]


I wish I could I could have quit you.


I wish I never missed you,


And told you that I loved you, every time I ****** you.


The future that we both drew, and all the **** we've been through.


Obsessed with the thought of you, the pain just grew and grew!


How could you do this to me?


Look at what I made for you, it never was enough and the world is what I gave to you.


I used to be love struck; now I'm just ****** up.


Pull up my sleeves and see the pattern of my cuts!





[Chorus]





[Bridge - Tha Producer and Shady]


Seems like all we had is over now you left to rest.


And your tears are dried up now, you just lay without a sound.


Seems like all we had is over now, you left to rest.


And my fears are over now, I can leave with my head down.





[Chorus]





The black dahlia~ was a woman that was horribly murdered. Her name was Elizabeth short.





Elizabeth Short was murdered; the killer remains unknown. Her body was found on 15 January 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, severely mutilated and cut in half. Her face was slashed from the corners of her mouth toward her ears.