Born on July 29, 1924, Short was one of four sisters and grew up outside of Boston, according to the book The Black Dahlia: Shattered Dreams, written by Brenda Haugen. Short’s life was marred ...

Dubbed "The Black Dahlia" by the press due to her affinity ... Years later in 2003, a retired LAPD detective wrote a book pointing to his father, gynecologist George Hodel, who died in 1999 ...

books and countless theories. “It’s the body itself which laid the groundwork for endless generations of Black Dahlia zealots,” said John Gilmore, author of Severed: The True Story of the Bl ...