ET seems on the Black Dahlia homicide, from the invention of Elizabeth Short’s mutilated physique, to the decades-spanning investigation surrounding Hollywood’s notorious unsolved killing. In a uncommon interview, a reporter instructed ET about coming upon Short’s stays in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park earlier than police arrived on the scene on Jan. 15, 1947. Newspapers on the time ran with a nickname she gained earlier than her loss of life at 22 years outdated, which referenced Veronica Lake’s 1946 movie noir and Short’s head-to-toe gothic look. After an unprecedented media frenzy in regards to the manhunt, LA detectives have been left with a sequence of cleared suspects and dead-end ideas. Inspired by Old Hollywood’s notorious chilly case, bestselling crime novelist James Ellroy penned ‘The Black Dahlia’ in 1987, which helped kick off a renaissance of public curiosity and recent leads. ET spoke with a number of individuals among the many many proclaiming to know the identification of Short’s killer, however their claims have been by no means confirmed and so they stay unsubstantiated theories. Around the time of director Brian De Palma’s big-screen tackle Ellroy’s novel, Steve Hodel – the son of one-time suspect George Hodel — opened as much as ‘48 Hours’ about why his father matched the profile for the Black Dahlia’s assassin. Mia Kirshner performed Short within the 2006 adaptation, adopted by Mena Suvari for ‘American Horror Story’s inaugural ‘Murder House’ season. Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine’s 2019 miniseries, ‘I Am the Night,’ circled again to Hodel and long-held suspicion that the infamous surgeon killed Short on the famed John Sowden home in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood. No one has ever been formally charged by regulation enforcement in reference to the Black Dahlia.
