Elizabeth Short Murder Research Paper

The Elizabeth Short murder still remains unsolved. She lived in Boston, Massachusetts in her childhood along with her mother and father and 4 sisters. There have been many books and films about this murder and the press soon began to allude to Short as The Black Dahlia, which in turn alluded to the film noir murder mystery called The Blue Dahlia.

She was the third of five girls and in her early years, the family was fairly affluent. Her father built mini golf courses but when the stock market collapsed in 1929, he lost everything and they became destitute. In 1930, her father drove to Charlestown Bridge and when his car was found abandoned, everyone assumed he had committed suicide by jumping in the River Charles. This meant that Phoebe

This contained Elizabeth’s handbag and a black suede shoe. Again they had been wiped clean of fingerprints with gasoline.

After Hanson’s notebook had been sent, he became a suspect. He was rich and owned a nightclub and theater. A link was established between him and Short because she had stayed at his home with friends. One of Short’s friends told police that Hanson had made unwelcome advances on Short and she’d turned him down and suggested that he might have killed her because of that. But police ruled him out and he was later cleared of any charges.

Over the next few weeks, police interviewed 150 potential suspects. Initially, there were 750 investigators from the LAPD and other departments working on the case.

On January 26th another letter was sent to the Los Angeles Examiner but this time it was handwritten. It said, “Here it is. Turning in Wed Jan 29 10 am. Had my fun at police. Black Dahlia Avenger.” His letter said where he’d be turning himself in and the police waited for him to show up. He didn’t but at 1 pm the same day another letter arrived at the offices of the Examiner. This one was cut and paste and said, “Have changed my mind. You would not give me a square deal. Dahlia killed was