Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia is the popular name for murder victim Elizabeth Ann Short, whose body was discovered on January 15, 1947, in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, California, severed in half and mutilated. The crime was never solved but has been the subject of intense speculation ever since.
Neo-noir author James Ellroy based his 1987 book, The Black Dahlia, around the crime, and Short's murder has been key to the popular perception of Los Angeles as a dystopian land of broken dreams.
See also
Cleveland Torso Murderer
References
- John Gilmore; Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder; Zanja Press; ISBN 0-938331-03-5 (paperback, 1994)
