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The Horrific Case in American History: The Black Dahlia Case

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January 15, 1947, on the streets of Los Angeles, USA

The body of a white female was found

The corpse faces up

****

From the navel, the waist is cut into two pieces

The upper and lower body are misplaced

The middle interval is about 50 cm

Arms are raised in a surrender posture

The legs were stiffly opened

It is at an angle greater than 60 degrees

It's full of strong sexual innuendo

There was not a trace of blood at the scene

The bodies were washed clean from the inside out

**Severely damaged

The corners of the mouths on both sides were cut open by sharp knives

Wound up to the root of the ear

A clown-like smile appeared in front of me

Obviously

The state of the body was deliberately done by the murderer

This arrogant act

This desecration of corpses and challenges to the public

It's more shocking than ** itself

This girl who was cut off

He is one of the most famous victims in the history of Crime in the United States

Hello black dahlia everyone

Welcome to this episode of The Horrors of American History

Case Black Dahlia Case Episode 1 1947 1

On The 15th of July at around 10 a.m

A central residential area of Los Angeles, California, USA

Norton block on 39th Street

One is named Short

Boosinger's housewife with her own three-year-old daughter

Go to the shoemaker to get the shoes

As they passed a lush meadow in norton neighborhood

time

Posinger saw what appeared to be a body lying not far away

A broken plaster model of the human body

But after he approached

But I was stunned by the scene in front of me

It turned out to be a dismembered female corpse

body

Birsinger immediately blocked the child's eyes with his hand

And took her with them to the nearest neighborhood to call the police

So far

The world-shocked black dahlia case began

According to the police on-site investigation

In addition to the physical status described above

Judging by the dew marks on the corpse

The time of abandonment may be around 2 a.m

Vehicles and pedestrians often pass by around the site of the abandoned body

However, no eyewitnesses were reported

Obviously

The place of abandonment is not the first scene of the case

subsequently

The autopsy report issued by the forensic doctor on the course of the body's murder

Degrees are described in detail

The victim is fingerprinted

Identified as 22-year-old Caucasian female Elizabeth

Ann Short

Height 171 cm

Weight 51.2 kg

Blue eyes

The hair was originally brown

It is later dyed black

Because the body has traces of being refrigerated

Therefore, the time of death can only be roughly judged

It was between 3 and 5 p.m. the day before

The deceased was hit on the head

Causes inverted skull or excessive blood loss in the face

One possibility is due to blood loss from the face

It flows into the lungs and causes it to choke to death

The body was cut in two parts from the navel

The time should be after the victim's death

But because the destruction of the body is too serious

And there are too many fatal wounds

Therefore, it is not excluded that the victim is alive

Cut open

Blood in the body basic flow drying

Put it inside and out of the body

Wash all with water

No ** or similar traces were found

Fracture of the upper part of the body with an inverted head

Multiple bruises on the face

The mouth is cut from the corners of the mouth to the sides

The wound is serrated

Both the mandible and the occlusal muscle are severed

Wounds up to the earlobes

The wound gives the victim's face a kind of appearance

Eerie smile

It is obviously a reference to the appearance of the clown's makeup

It is very unusual that the mouth has appeared more serious

The rot

And it was stuffed with wax that might have been used to stop the bleeding

There are no significant trauma to the neck

But there are traces of being tied

There are many wounds in the chest

Mainly concentrated in the two ** positions

The right side ** is almost cut off

Other wounds are mostly serrated cuts

There were also multiple cigarette burns

The organs of the upper body are stuffed into the chest cavity

Dissected

There is no digestive food in the stomach

But part of the residue shows that the victim swallowed it

Eaten or forcibly swallowed**

There were multiple bruises and fractures in both arms

Multiple finger fractures

Most of the red nail polish has fallen off

Several nails were also pulled out

There are bound scars on the wrists

The lower part of the body had bound wounds at the ankles

The scar area is large

The wound rolls up from the bottom up

The victim may have been hoisted upside down

Both legs were fractured from the knee position

There are multiple scratches and bruises on the thighs

There is a large wound on the front side of the left thigh

**There are no traces of infringement

Organs such as intestines are flushed and stuffed into the abdominal cavity

There is a similar surgery for the lower abdomen that has been removed

of wounds

**Removed

Overall

More organs are lost in the lower body

Judging by all the wounds of the victim

The victim was dismembered by a large machete-like weapon

There are multiple possibilities for the cause of death

But there is no doubt about it

She was brutally tortured before she died

36 to 48 hours

The murder weapon used by the criminal to torture her should be included

Sticks including short knives

Blunt instruments

axe

Saws, etc

Because the body is washed and refrigerated and discarded

There are very few effective clues

After the case was filed, the police spent a lot of manpower and material resources

Investigate the killer in the surrounding area

Look for eyewitnesses

But very little was gained

Angry, more than 30 people turned themselves in

Say you're a suspect

It took a lot of energy to verify

Again, nothing was found

Then Elizabeth, who is called the black dahlia

Who exactly is Ann Short

Elizabeth

Ann Short

Born on July 29, 1924

Medford in Massachusetts, USA

He was only 22 years old at the time of his murder

Elizabeth's family belonged to the 1920s

Typical middle-class family

Father Cleo

Short had a decent job building mini-Goyles

Fu Stadium

Mother Phoebe

Short is a hard-working housewife

She kept the house in good order

Discipline the children harshly

The victim's parents gave birth to five daughters

Elizabeth came in third

In 1929

The United States abruptly entered a period of great depression

Hit hard by the economic crisis

Father Cleo not only lost his job

Savings were also swallowed up by the plunging stock market

The whole family goes bankrupt

The second year

At the age of six Elizabeth

Clio had a day to drive out

He never came back

Police found his empty car on a bridge

Judged that he had jumped into the rushing Charles River

kill

Cleo left no legacy

Elizabeth's mother was sad

Having to afford to raise five daughters alone

allow

He moved into a small apartment with his daughters

Found a job as a bookkeeper

Taking care of five children alone while working

Life is tough though

But he did not relax in the education of his five children

In the evaluation of the neighbors

The five sisters are friendly

**

Be polite and behave appropriately

Elizabeth was different from the other sisters

She grew up suffering from bronchitis and asthma

He underwent a lung surgery when he was 15 years old

Due to the very cold winters in Boston

Not conducive to his treatment

Doctors advised him to stay in a warm place in the winter

square

In 1940

Elizabeth was sent to Miami

Soon after

In his sophomore year of high school, he dropped out of high school

Go to the hotel and start working as a waiter

In 1942

Mother Phoebe suddenly receives a letter from her dead husband

letter

It turned out that his father, Cleo, was trying to escape financial hardship

Difficult to disguise**

In fact, he went to California to start a new life

When the mother worked alone for 12 years

After raising the child**

This irresponsible man suddenly appeared

Offered to return to the family

Not his anger

He refused his request

Maybe it's because the city I live in is warmer

The fit father Cleo sent to Elizabeth

Got some money

Invite your daughter to California to live with him

The letter, however, became Elizabeth

A turning point in life

Early 1943

Elizabeth, 17, travels to Vallejos, California

He defected to his father, whom he had not met since he was six years old

But in a short time, the father and daughter fell out

Elizabeth, who was a girl, set two ideals

first

Married to a soldier

Preferably the Air Force

second

Become a showbiz star

He began to wander around the barracks and naval bases

Public places

He also had entanglements with several soldiers

His father was disgusted by his state

Coupled with her father's legacy of the entire family at an early age

Abandonment

This eventually led to the complete breakdown of his father-daughter relationship

After an argument

Elizabeth took a friend's car and left her father's

accommodation

Head to Camp Cook near Santa Barbara

Find a copy at one of the camp's retail stores

The job of a cashier

Elizabeth, 16, is out of town

Sweet and moving

Her beauty made her popular at the base

The soldiers called him barracks sweetheart

One night in September 1943

When he sat down to eat in a restaurant with a group of friends

Suddenly encountered by the police to check the drinking age

California is like many other states in the United States

The legal drinking age is 21 years old

Elizabeth was not yet 19 years old

Some people who knew Elizabeth said

Elizabeth herself never drank

He was arrested because of other people at the table

All drinking

This arrest in 1943 and before

His experience working at an air base

Make him leave his fingerprints and photos in the ** system

Four years later

Police use the latest fax technology to compare fingerprints

It took less than an hour to confirm the identity of the deceased

The local juvenile court dropped the indictment

But hopefully Elizabeth's father would act as a guardian

Take away Elizabeth

However, he was rejected by his father, Cleo

Fortunately, a female ** took in Elizabeth at that time

He later applied to Elizabeth through the court

Bought a ticket

Send her back to the Maid costume where her mother and sisters are

But Elizabeth did not want to stay in the cold hometown at that time

He arrived in Medford shortly after

He immediately set off for the beach in Miami

Everyone's exploration of the world ends differently

And Elizabeth's ending will be as terrifying as hell

What exactly caused such a tragic ending?

Is it personality or unladylike encounters

Who is the murderer

Vendetta or psychopathy

The next episode of this episode is announced

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