![]() Piu believes there is overwhelming evidence that Leslie Dillon, a 27-year-old drifter and bell worker, carried out the murder, after being instructed by Hollywood businessman Mark Hansen to get rid of her. This element of the murder was to persist throughout the investigation as he sent a package of her clothes and mocking letters were received by the media, signed the 'Black Dahlia Avenger'. It was clear from the disposal of the body in such a public place that the killer wanted his grotesque handiwork to be found. She was identified by her fingerprints, having been arrested years before in 1943 for underage drinking with soldiers. Her killer had also washed her remains, including her hair. She had been forced to eat faeces, her organs - including her uterus and intestines - had been removed, and her body had been completely drained of blood before it was dumped. Who killed Natalee Holloway? The teenager who went to celebrate the end of college and never came backĪ post-mortem suggested that Elizabeth had been tortured before she was killed. Each half had been placed around 10 inches apart and her mouth slashed ear to ear in the manner of a terrifying clown. Initially, people thought she was a mannequin as her remains had been cut in half through the abdomen at the ribs. It is this narrative that author Piu Eatwell believed helped Elizabeth's killer walk free after he was ordered to "get rid of' her by a Hollywood businessman with links to both the criminal underworld and the LAPD - who she claims helped to cover up the case.Įlizabeth was found on January 15, 1947, her body horrifically disfigured after her death. ![]() The killing, unsolved for seven decades, was used as a macabre morality tale for girls like Elizabeth who went to Hollywood in the 1950s to seek their fortune. She became known as 'The Black Dahlia,' a title alluding to the mystery of her death, her choice of clothes and her head of distinctive raven hair. ![]() It was a murder obscene enough to shock even jaded Los Angeles to the core and the spectre of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short still lingers to this day. She was found tortured and cut in half, her face horrifically mutilated by the psychotic sadist who left her remains on a sidewalk for a mother and her child to find.
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