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Some sources attribute the Black Dahlia name to the 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia, starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd (pictured). [157] According to newspaper reports shortly after the murder, Short received the nickname "Black Dahlia" from staff and patrons at a Long Beach drugstore in mid-1946 as wordplay on the film The Blue Dahlia (1946).
George Hill Hodel Jr. (October 10, 1907 – May 17, 1999) was an American physician, and a suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. [1] He was never formally charged with the crime but, at the time, police considered him a viable suspect, and two of his children believe he was guilty.
The Black Dahlia Files notes that the LAPD questioned comic actor Arthur Lake, who starred in the Blondie film series, regarding both the Black Dahlia murder and the 1944 killing of oil heiress ...
One of his first assignments was the notorious Black Dahlia murder, [3] a case he worked on and off until his retirement in 1993. [4] His nickname, Jigsaw John, originated in his early career with a dismemberment murder he solved in Griffith Park in which the victim had been cut up jigsaw -style.
Though the case was never solved, the home is thought to be the location of the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short a.k.a. the "Black Dahlia", as investigators called her.
A possible break in the decades-old "Black Dahlia" murder case puts the spotlight back on the John Sowden House in Los Angeles, the home where 22-year-old Elizabeth Short (pictured below with a ...
The Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia or simply, Root of Evil, is an American investigative crime podcast covering the Black Dahlia murder and suspect George Hodel. [2] The podcast was produced as a partnership between Cadence13 and TNT as a companion to the fictional television series I Am the Night.
A month after "the scent of death" was detected in its basement by a trained cadaver dog, the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House in Los Angeles -- a purported site of the Black Dahlia murder ...