Elizabeth Short, the #BlackDahlia, was #BornOnThisDay,July 29, 1924. Murdered in 1947, (age 22)

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Elizabeth Short was #BornOnThisDay,July 29, 1924. Murdered in 1947, (age 22)remembered posthumously as the #BlackDahlia,her death remains unsolved. Her case continues to be publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime & her mysterious background. #RIP #GoneTooSoon #truecrime

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WARNING: GRUESOME PICTURES OF HOMICIDE VICTIM. I MEAN, REALLY GRUESOME.

Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation: Part XVIII

BY DAVE MCGOWAN | MAY 26, 2011

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Thus far on this journey, we have seen how what are arguably the two most bloody and notorious mass murders in the history of the City of Angels – the Manson Family murders of the occupants of the home on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, and the so-called Four-On-The-Floor bludgeoning murders of four Laurel Canyon drug dealers on Wonderland Avenue – were directly connected to the Laurel Canyon music scene.

But the city of Los Angeles can boast of one other particularly notorious murder, which stands to this day as both the most gruesome single-victim murder and the most famous unsolved murder in the city’s history.

On January 15, 1947, the mutilated body of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found posed in a field. The ritualistically butchered body was nude, sliced cleanly in half, and completely drained of blood. Parts of the body had been removed, after which the corpse had been thoroughly sanitized. Bruising clearly indicated that the young girl had been savagely beaten. Forensic evidence suggested that she had been forced to eat feces during her tortuous ordeal. She was quickly dubbed the ‘Black Dahlia,’ and it is by that name that she is known and written about today.

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Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation Part XVIII

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I've read several books on the Black Dahlia.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. This article is some serious Q-type of shit ...

"The most likely scenario is that Hodel committed the crime in conjunction with various others in his pedophilic, Luciferian social circle. Man Ray, for example, is a compelling suspect, given that the posing of Ms. Short’s body appears to mimic The Minotaur, one of his better-known photographs. Man Ray, by the way, was something of the Robert Mapplethorpe of his era – the same Robert Mapplethorpe, it should be noted, whom investigative journalist Maury Terry has similarly linked to the Son of Sam case and various other ritualized murders"

Lot of other tenuous suggestions that the 'hippie music scene' of Laurel Canyon is linked to all three of the most notorious LA area murders (Manson, and Wonderland being the other two).

I did a whole lot of reading it, put it like that.

[ChazInAz]

3. Yeah...

Really stretching to make those connections between Sixties musicians and a (Then.) twenty-year-past murder.
Reminds me of some of the more fevered Jack The Ripper "theories".