The "Cecil Hotel" in Los Angeles, California, is famous for its ties to many mysterious unsolved cases. On February 19, 2013, the body of Lan Ke'er, a Chinese girl, was found in a hotel water tank, and the mystery of her death is still a mystery. But her death was not the first tragedy that happened in the hotel.
73 years ago, a girl walked into the bar on the 1st floor of the Cecil Hotel, and then she mysteriously disappeared. Six days later, her body appeared in the park, and unexpectedly, more than 500 people claiming to be "real murderers" rushed to the police station to turn themselves in, saying that they had killed her.
This is a bit out of the ordinary cognition, only heard of the rush to receive rewards, impersonation of merit, are these people collectively broken their brains, want to go to hell early? This has to start with the identity of the girl. The girl's name was Elizabeth Ann Short and nicknamed "Beth".
Beth was born in 1924 and had an unhappy family life. She was the third oldest in the family, and her father and mother often quarreled over trivial matters, and finally her father even ran away, leaving behind a few children. Beth is so irritated that she vows to find a soldier to be her husband, because the soldier has a sense of responsibility and responsibility.
Beth loves beauty very much, and of course, she does look pretty. Unfortunately, Beth's family is relatively poor and cannot afford her to buy gorgeous clothes. Thinking about it, Beth felt that being an actress was a good way out, and she hoped to change her life. From the age of 16, Beth has been frequently seen in hotels, near military barracks, and on Hollywood Street.
At first, Beth works in hotels to earn money, but she soon discovers that it's faster to make money by socializing with the soldiers or with people in the film world. For this reason, Beth wandered between multiple men, and during the day she dressed up beautifully and walked to the street, hoping to meet a scout who would take her with her, and at night, Beth had to exchange her body for money.
If this life continues, perhaps Beth will not attract the attention of others at all, she has no beauty, no fame, and no resources. But on the morning of January 15, 1947, a housewife found Beth lying on the park meadow without a wisp, her body in an incredible state.
The upper and lower parts of the body have long been separated, but there is no half blood at the scene, the blood is deliberately exhausted, and after cleaning and refrigerating the body, half of the murderer's hair or body fluids cannot be found. Wrists and necks showed signs of being tied, nails were mostly detached, and even police found feces in Beth's stomach.
To be sure, Beth was subjected to inhuman torture before her death. After a comparative analysis by the police, it was believed that the process should have lasted more than 20 hours. But Beth is just a small actor, who would have such a strong hatred for her? And that's not even the strangest thing, the strangest thing is that Beth's death caused a whole bunch of "chain reactions."
Less than a month after the case took place, 33 people came to the police station and said that they were the "real culprits" who killed Beth. But after the police investigated, they found that many of them had come for free prison meals, so they all sent them to a mental hospital. The police spent 3 years investigating the case and still had no clue, and the suspects interrogated were diverse:
There are joseph Dumais, a soldier who claims to have dated Beth and "accidentally" killed her when she was drunk; a housewife who said that her husband had a relationship with Beth and killed her out of jealousy; Tom, who came to the police station 4 times to confess that he should not hurt Beth; Leslie Dylan, a worker employed by a wealthy Hollywood businessman; and Robert Manley, who had a close relationship with Beth.
And that wasn't the end of it, and in the decades that followed, there were people who claimed to know the real culprit. A woman named Jenny wrote a suspenseful book 48 years after Beth's death, in which she confessed that her father was having an affair with Beth, and later she watched Beth die at her father's hands. Added up, more than 500 people confessed to being the killers.
Only poor Beth died of desolation at the age of 23, and after her death, she was also used by countless people to increase her popularity by using the fame of the case. Because Beth was last seen by insiders at the Cecil Hotel mentioned in the opening chapter, and she mysteriously disappeared for several days and then died in a strange way on the street, and decades later, the case has been clueless, and her death has become the most famous mystery in American history.