The body had been surgically bisected at the waist and the victim’s mouth was slashed from ear to ear, forming a ghoulish “smile.” The press dubbed her the Black Dahlia, and the case would ...

In Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime ... Short’s killer also carved a smile into her face by cutting the sides of her mouth, ...

Elizabeth Short's mutilated body was found on the sidewalk in a Los Angeles neighborhood in 1947 Liza Esquibias is an Editorial Intern at PEOPLE. She is a rising senior majoring in Journalism at ...