In a half hour, the killer could have transported the body to the beach or the mountains; add another half hour and he could have reached the vast expanses of the Southern California desert. She wasnt. - Los Angeles' Most Gruesome Murder Ever Elizabeth ("The Black Dahlia") Short's Murder Still Unsolved. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. He also said the coincidences piqued his interest. [36] The reason why he was a suspect is unclear, especially since Siegel was more concerned with the Flamingo Hotel and Casino at the time and he was known to be a "lady's man" not a "lady's killer." After Black Dahlia Avenger was released, the book attracted so much attention, the LAPD brass allowed Hodel to present his theory to the Cold Case Unit. However, Newton also admitted that Janice's allegations against her father were entirely circumstantial and lacked substantial corroboration. He also identified Short's handbag purse and one of her shoes after they were discovered in a trashcan on January 25, 1947, several miles from the murder scene. He has interviewed more than one hundred-fifty people, ranging from the first officer on the scene, to family members of Short, to a former boyfriend, to detectives assigned to the investigation, to the woman who discovered the body. His initial outline for the book was narrowly focused. Killed her. It was so white and separated in the middle. I decided Id report the story; Id go out and interview people., To know who to interview, he needed to conduct more research. At the end of the conversation, she implored Harnisch in an anguished tone not to tell anyone how to find her. They dated for about a week and then she joined him on a sales trip as he headed up to L.A. When I asked him to explain, he hesitated and then refused. An interview with Bayleys former secretary was of particular interest. [24] George Knowlton allegedly murdered Short in the garage and bisected her in the sink, then forced his then ten-year-old daughter Janice to accompany him when he disposed of the body. The secret DA Hodel/Black Dahlia Files locked in a DA's vault for more than fifty years reveal that not only was Dr. George Hodel the named prime suspect, but a joint task-force consisting of 18 detectives from the LAPD and DA offices conducted a live stakeout of his Hollywood residence 24/7 for six weeks. I am too busy working on active cases." Will Fowler, a reporter for the Examiner at the time, told Harnisch that he had been the first reporter at the scene and had arrived before the police. Thats only a block from where Shorts body was found, he says, running his finger along the address. Kurtis also probes the theory that the killer was a surgeon named Walter Bayley. No suspects were detained, and no further evidence has been uncovered as of yet. He also spends the evening wandering around the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, where Short was last seen, paying homage to her and ruminating about the case. investigation, which was initiated as a result of the Dillon debacle, placed him in San Francisco at the time of the killing. Both Harnisch and Hodel say they have no interest in pursuing Eatwells theory of the case because the extensive D.A. He visited the downtown library and photocopied all the microfilmed Dahlia stories from the three other major newspapers in Los Angeles at the timethe Examiner, the Herald-Express, and the Daily News. Customers called her the Black Dahlia, a play on the 1946 movie The Blue Dahlia, and because of her swirling black hair and black clothing. Hodel and Walter Bayley seem to be the best known suspects. She was the matron of honor at the wedding of Elizabeth Shorts oldest sister in Inglewood. Though charges have never been filed in the case, theories abound, and Kurtis investigates some of the most prominent ones. [33] While Severed says that homicide Detective John St. John was about to "close in" on Wilson based on the material Gilmore provided, St. John told the Herald-Examiner in the same article that he was busy with other killings and would review Gilmore's claims when he got time. I decided to do the story like it was breaking news, like a second day story. In October 1946, Walter walked out on his family and filed for a divorce. Harnisch had spent most of his career editing other writers, but after all the blogging he had done, he realized his writing had improved dramatically, so he embarked on another draft, which he is attempting to finish as he continues to delve deeper into Walter Bayleys background. Dillon was living in Florida at the time of his correspondence with De River, but had formerly lived in Los Angeles. I found out that a woman in the drugstore is the one who named her. When I asked him if he preferred Harnischs or Hodels suspect, he snapped, I wont talk about that anymore. The other photograph remains unidentified. Steve Hodel, many years later, brought a . Dr. Bayley lived a block from where the corpse was found. In his office, Harnisch points out a framed photo of Short, who was called Beth at the time, wearing a green beret, a matching top, and a string of pearls. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. Later, Hodel says, Ellroy pissed backwards, recanted his earlier endorsement, and told interviewers, maybe I was fooled. I interviewed Ellroy recently for another story I was writing, and we chatted amiably for about twenty minutes. Bayley was chief of staff at Los Angeles County Hospital and an associate professor of surgery at USC Medical School, and doctors Harnisch interviewed who knew Bayley, as well as his secretary, insisted that it was highly unlikely that a surgeon with his professional standing would have performed abortions. The Short family and the Bayley families know each other. The last person seen with Elizabeth Short before her disappearance, Manley was the LAPD's top suspect in the first few days after the killing. In August, 1945, five days before V-J Day, Gordon was killed in a crash and Short never overcame her grief. A self-published book by a former LAPD Vice detective wrote in 1950 that an abortion doctors office was located in a building on West 6th Streetthe same building as Bayleys office. After all these years, I still get about one call a week, says LAPD Detective Mitzi Roberts, who has been in charge of the case for a decade. [citation needed], Knowlton became somewhat infamous within online Black Dahlia discussion communities for her insistence that the LAPD was engaged in a conspiracy to discredit her story in order to conceal their knowledge of George Knowlton's involvement. Several times, Harnisch visited her grave in Oakland and left flowers. During the Depression, her father, who built miniature golf courses, suffered a financial setback and abandoned the family when Short was six. [18] See statement of Dorothy Hodel,[19] former wife). She immediately accepted. He also claims/accuses his father of being the Zodiac killer and the lipstick murderer. Once there, Dillon and De River traveled to San Francisco to unsuccessfully look for Connors. Federal documents, he tells Fallon, are much more difficult to obtain, the V.A. He contradicted almost every element of Fowlers account. Dumais, a 29-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey, confessed to Short's murder a few weeks after it occurred. In the summer of 1946, she landed in Long Beach in an attempt to resume a romance with another pilot, Gordon Fickling, who she had met at the beginning of the war. During this time his marriage dissolved, he moved to a small apartment, and he faced the depressing reality of spending holidays away from his wife and son. had bugged Hodels home and he was recorded saying, Supposin I did kill the Black Dahlia. They threw hundreds of cops and investigators borrowed from other departments at this murder. The Walter Bayley Theory The theory of Walter Bayley was devised by Larry Harnisch, an LA Times copy editor. The story of the Black Dahlia made headlines for weeks. One, its unsolved; two, the nickname; and three, the horrible nature of the crime. Now everything depended on finding out who was Barbara Lindgren.. Steve Hodel completely dismisses Harnischs theory in Black Dahlia Avenger. [deleted] 8 yr. ago Thanks for the video link! He simply wanted to tell a good crime story and to create an accurate biography of Short, tracing her life from small town Massachusetts, to California, to her death. She told Harnisch that she was stunned that Bayley and Partikya used to pick up dinner to go, listen to classical music at their medical office, and eat dinner while watching surgery films. He visited the downtown library and photocopied all the microfilmed Dahlia stories from the three other major newspapers in Los Angeles at the timethe, After tracking down and interviewing Betty Bersinger, the woman who found the body on Norton Avenue in South Los Angeles, Harnisch discovered that one of the first myths that had accreted around the Dahlia story did not match the reality. Some have suggested that the secret Bayley's mistress was blackmailing him with was that he had performed abortions, then a crime. Larry Harnisch's Site on Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. ", Knowlton also made claims prefiguring those of Black Dahlia Files author Donald Wolfe. What keeps me going is that I promised myself I would clear up all the lies and myths and try to reclaim Elizabeth Short from the Dahlia freaks. Dr. George Hill Hodel, Jr. came under police scrutiny in October 1949, when his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar, accused him of molesting her. He made a discovery, however, that altered his perspective. The Biltmore, with its Spanish and Italian Renaissance design, Moorish beamed ceilings, lavish frescoes and murals, was the citys most elegant hotel when Short wandered inside. Detectives had planned to mail her fingerprints to the FBI in Washington, but an Examiner editor suggested using the papers Soundphoto machine, which was similar to a fax, to transmit the fingerprints to the Hearst Washington Bureau and then hand deliver them to the FBI. She said to a cop who also spent time there, They should call her the Black Dahlia. The cop is the one who gave this account to the newspapers. As they discuss the case, they reveal antipodal personalities. Newton, Michael (2009) The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes, second edition. See supplemental reports, long sheets and hear recordings, all of which tend to eliminate this suspect. files. On a recent sunny afternoon, Harnisch takes me on a stroll down Norton Avenue to illuminate some of his claims. His research takes us to a deceased surgeon named Walter Bayley. While he wasnt adding chapters to his book, the research for the blogs provided valuable background when he returned to writing five years ago, shortly before he retired from the paper. The truth is she came out to Southern California for a man. An, Ten days after Shorts body was found, the killer mailed an envelope of Shorts belongings to the, Among authors, the case has resonated for decades. This was one of the last big stories in Los Angeles pre-television and the competition among the four papers drove the coverage. He wanted to interview Short and her husband in an attempt to determine the identity of Barbara Lindgren, but they were dead. [5], Donald Wolfe's 2005 book The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles names Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1945-1960, as a suspect in the murder. Thats off the charts weird. The drive for violence and sexuality can come up and get worse and worse. Then another book, Black Dahlia Avenger, was released that blew everything out of the water, Harnisch says. The Dahlia case helped Ellroy cope with his own tragedy and his frequent nightmares, he wrote, enabling him to experience the horror and grief over Shorts killing that he hadnt been able to express over his own mothers murder. 's investigation of Hodel and at least 21 other suspects. When Bayley died in January 1948, his autopsy showed that he was suffering from a degenerative brain disease. Harnisch strides through the hotel, built in 1923, and stops at the bar, which serves a cocktail known as the Black Dahlia, made with citrus vodka, Kahlua, and Chambord. John Jigsaw John St. John was assigned the Dahlia file after Hansen retired and he kept control of the case until he pulled the pin in 1993. Brian's Website On January 15, 1947 a woman walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of Norton St., in Liemert Park, Los Angeles caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a department store mannequin lying in the weeds on the side of the street; the top half separated from the lower half. Virginia, had married soldier Adrian West in 1945 at the home of Dr. Walter Alonzo Bayley at 3959 S. Norton one block from where the bride's sister's corpse would be found years later. Welles was never a suspect in the investigation. Harnisch disagrees with the claim made by some writers that the detectives were inept, and the case was compromised by department corruption. The real killer, he believed, only killed once. It is the coldest of cold cases, a case so old the detective in charge of the investigation wasnt born at the time of the homicide. She drifted around the country during the next year-and-a-half until her death, never held another job, and often stayed briefly with friends and acquaintances. Dr. Walter Alonzo Bayley was a Los Angeles surgeon who lived in a house one block south of the vacant lot in which Elizabeth Short's body was found, until he left his wife in October 1946. Her body was found in a weed-webbed lot in South Los Angeles, surgically severed in two, washed and scrubbed, posed, and completely drained of blood. During the war, Short, who had asthma, moved to Florida to escape the harsh New England winters, and met a pilot, Major Matt Gordon Jr. I happened to be working on the rewrite desk of the Daily News that morning and drew the story when our police beat phoned in the first bulletin, Smith wrote in a column years later. When he studied the marriage certificate, he discovered the couple was married in Inglewood. He read a history of the ranch and interviewed a group of scholars at Cal Poly Pomona who had conducted a detailed study of the areas architecture and history. Prior to Wilson's death, however, Gilmore made an entirely different claim to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in a story appearing January 17, 1982. He was in no shape to carry a fully intact body around. Hodels book contains numerous assertions about his father and the Dahlia case, some that are authenticated, some that are speculative; nonetheless, the book received widespread attention and immediately eclipsed Harnischs theory. But it makes a neat package, doesnt it?, In the 2001 documentary James Ellroys Feast of Death, Harnisch presents his theory of the case during a dinner hosted by Ellroy, who has studied the murder for decades and has an encyclopedic knowledge of L.A. crime. Reporters are at the Detective Bureau and it is not possible for the investigators to have confidential telephone conversation or even read mail without having some news reporter looking it over to see if it relates to this one.. The prime suspect is a creepy doctor obsessed with a surrealist artist who is a suspect in several other murders. Harnisch perked up when he noticed that a witness to the ceremony listed an address that looked like Norton Avenue, but he wasnt sure because the certificate had been photocopied numerous times and was smudged and hard to read. Despite persistent attempts by Republic Pictures to get him to return to complete the film, he refused. A Michigan death metal band is called The Black Dahlia Murder. Lillian DeNorak [Lenorak] who lived with this doctor said he spent some time around the Biltmore Hotel and identified the photo of victim Short as a photo of one of the doctor's girl friends. After tracking down and interviewing Betty Bersinger, the woman who found the body on Norton Avenue in South Los Angeles, Harnisch discovered that one of the first myths that had accreted around the Dahlia story did not match the reality. The horrific homicide has sparked such enduring fascination that the crime has been transformed into kitsch. At the Biltmore Hotel, where Short was last seen, the bar serves a Black Dahlia cocktail. He was later exonerated of all charges, though. When he asked her about Elizabeth Short, she became wary. Harnisch was devastated. Detective David Lambkin, who was head of the Unit at the time, said that Hodel lost credibility as a result of the numerous other murders he attributed to his father. Those who claimed to have identified the killer, he felt, were deluded. Harnisch adds one more variable to his hypothesis. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.Stephen Bayley (b. [16] Popular accounts of the Black Dahlia case often portray Hansen as having connections to organized crime, but there is no evidence of this. Walter was our only sonthe only child of our flesh and blood, Bayley said in a newspaper story. . Ill never say Im a hundred percent sure. Jack Webb, who created and starred in Dragnet, wrote The Badge eleven years after the murder, one of the first books that chronicled the crime. After encountering these early erroneous accounts, he vowed that everything he wrote would be exact, backed by authenticated sources, and he ended up spending an inordinate amount of time, which stalled his own research and writing, challenging the accounts of other writers. Ill never say Im a hundred percent sure. The homes are well kept, the lawns trimmed, and the shrubbery pruned. She was heading south on Norton Avenue, negotiating the shards of broken glass on the sidewalk that lined the vacant lots. Enchephalomalacia is a structural lesion in the brainsoftening of brain tissue, the psychiatrist wrote to Harnisch. Someone is going to look out a window and see you, Douglas told Harnisch. Harnisch didnt know much, but he thought it was an interesting question. On January 15th. Upon his death, his wife and girlfriend ended up in a legal battle over his belongings with his girlfriend claiming she knew a secret that would ruin him personally and professionally. Writers", "Janice Knowlton, 67; Believed That Her Father Killed the Black Dahlia", "Co-author of "Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer," Pocket Books", "Janice Knowlton, 67; Believed That Her Father Killed The Black Dahlia", The Black Dahlia Murder, aka Elizabeth Short - The Crime library, Black Dahlia Murder Suspects Beth Short Murder The Crime library, "Heaven Is HERE! About the only thing Harnisch and Hodel agree on is the innocence of Leslie Dillon who author Piu Eatwell identifies as Shorts killer in her 2018 book, Black Dahlia Red Rose. With neither the energy nor motivation to finish his book, he put it aside. and water and told me that he did not believe the person who committed the murder was a serial killer. Grabbing her hand, she ran with her to the nearest neighbors house to call the police. Bersinger told Harnisch a different story. His research began when he was a copy editor at the Los Angeles Times and he was writing a 1997 fiftieth anniversary story on the killing. After all these years, I still get about one call a week, says LAPD Detective Mitzi Roberts, who has been in charge of the case for a decade. During World War II, crime surged in L.A. and generated such interest that the Examiner ran a daily tally on the front page. Frontotemporal dementia primarily affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. During an interview Fowler quoted Napoleon: History is an agreed upon lie. Fitzgerald contended that when he arrived there were no reporters or photographers. to various online forums wherein the Black Dahlia case was discussed, posted an article[26] to a Usenet group in August 1998 in which she names Dr. George Hodel (see above) as a suspect in the case. He had the strange habit of watching surgery films at night. Thats a lot less glamorous.. One of the first suspects was Walter Bayley. When asked about an element of the investigation, he is often reluctant to answer, and instead says, Let me check my files. He then lunges out of his chair, disappears into his office, roots through the photocopied newspapers clippings, inquest reports, and investigative files, and returns with a precise answer. Files also state that O'Reilly "attended sex parties at Malibu" with Hansen. It may well be that, barring the dramatic appearance of a written confession, the Dahlia will remain the stuff of Angeleno myth.. There were also many coincidences why people assume that he murdered The Black Dahlia because of how she died and the horrible things that the killer did to her. There is Black Dahlia lingerie, Black Dahlia perfume, Black Dahlia T-shirts, and a number of other schlocky items. The profiler, John Douglas, speculated that the killer was probably angry at some residents on Norton Avenue and intended to put the fear of God into that neighborhood. Harnisch recalled this when he learned that Bayley had adopted two girls and then had one biological son whom he doted on and whod been killed. Finally, the murder has been the most frustrating pursuit of all. Best-selling author James Ellroy was eleveneight months after his mother was murderedwhen he received a copy of The Badge as a birthday present from his father. She said that she was with Doctor Hodel sometime prior to the murder and that she knew nothing about his being associated with the victim. Harnisch now had a connection between a witness to Virginia Shorts wedding and the crime scene. Although I wasnt quite there yet, this was definitely interesting. His father, George Hodel Jr., was a dashing physician who hobnobbed with actors and artists, lived in a house designed by Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wrights son, in Hollywood, and operated a downtown venereal disease clinic. Dumais was cleared of any involvement in the crime, although he continued to claim he killed Short each time he was arrested for various offenses, well into the 1950s. No case has stumped investigators more than the killing of Elizabeth Short, aka "The Black Dahlia." On January 15, 1947, the 22-year-old, budding actress was brutally murdered in South Los Angeles. Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. He was 67 and had no record of crime or violence. As City Editor Jimmy Richardson sat in a swivel chair beside him, Sutton called Shorts mother, Phoebe, and said that her daughter won a beauty contest in Southern California. They couldn't prove it now. He described her as a pathological liar. The jury acquitted the doctor. His obsession with the case culminated in his 1986 novel, The Black Dahlia, which hinted that the victim was involved in stag films. The first was that Walter was 67 years old at the time of the murder (Wikipedia). Along a dreary, weedy block without a house on either side, a housewife was walking to the store with her five-year-old daughter, scolding her a little because she wanted to play in the dew-wet lots. It was so refreshing to find someone who was sticking to the facts and the original documents, she says. Bersinger and her husband had recently purchased their home for $11,000 in a middle-class neighborhood of primarily newly married couples with young children. 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