The Black Dahlia - An UNSOLVED Hollywood Murder Mystery 

Her spirit started living her body as soon as the first few attacks started happenning. Our spirits leave our bodies like that so we do not feel the pain at all. Research it!

I always thought the BD was killed by either Bugsy Siegel or some other mob guy OR an abortion doctor named George something (his son was convinced his dad either did it or pretended to.) One book I have is about the story this mobbed up guy told about the motel room this supposedly happened in, and that by the time the murderer cut her mouth she was already totally dead. He said "you could see it by her eyes" while she was hanging by her wrists and obviously before she got bisected. Why do so many men hate women so much that nowadays they are trying to persuade them they should mutilate their bodies because they are born in the "wrong" ones while letting men pretend they are women and becoming enormously wealthy by doing what some people call a "Menstrual Show" (or "womanface") These people have mommy issues, methinks.

​@paulaharrisbaca4851 no, George Hodel was not the one. That son of his, he had an axe to grind. He simply found a few pics of black haired women from his possessions, and even though they don't look at all like Elizabeth Short, he assumed one could be Elizabeth. He was a surgeon but other than that - no connection.

Sorry Sharon. That Hodel was the one. What a devil. He planted body in Surgeon Bayley's home area too. And he cd slice bodies just as well. Poor Elizabeth

@@paulaharrisbaca4851where tf did the transphobia come from, the hell 💀

Thanks for the additional information. I wish I could see it in person, but I'm just a beach bum on the opposite coast.

Yes and Desilu Studios was where the first Star Trek series was filmed.

@@tubian323 as well as Andy Griffith and Gomer Pyle, USMC.

And the big globe on the corner of the building roof is the actual RKO Radio Pictures globe..

Desilu studios in Culver city

Indeed

I feel so bad in all his videos when he says you can see the photos on google, I always pause and do the google search and come back. We all have a curiosity dark side, and he always is respectful with great history flashbacks.

So True

Yup, in Medford. I plan to visit in July '22 :)

That would be awesome!

Thats pretty cool

I want to work at Paramount

Same, I’m sure we will cross paths again. Stay safe out there

Even living in the house where she was murdered

NO!

I never could understand why anyone would want to live in that house. This young woman was butchered like an animal. As a woman myself. All she wanted to do was have a little bit of fun before marriage and kids.RIP.

A mother found her body

If I came across the body of a mutilated corpse like what happened to this poor woman I'd probably suffer from PTSD and would never sleep again!

Awesome, the school I went too as well. Nostalgia, I'm just 34. Ha

John Marshall High School class of 98 baby

I went to John Potter Stevens HS way back in 1970. At the time the school was brad new & didn't even have a stadium. No cell phones, not internet back then. That's when kids went out side to play alot more. :>)

@Vincent Mg silver lake Atwater area la my highschool

My High School, too. I am NOT 30.

Same. This has to be one of the most disturbing cases in history! Knowing what happened to her body i just can't wrap my head around it to this day. All the evidence points directly at George. The psycho has taken the truth with him to his grave.

No, Westminster is too far away from the area Elizabeth frequented & where she was found, and Janice Knowlton's stepsister said that Janice's account was a lie, after Janice had a troubled life and had been abused by her father. George Hodel was most likely the murderer, a surgeon (and apparently a serial killer) who knew how to precision-cut the spine between L1-L2 and neatly cut at the end of the duodenum. In 2003, it was revealed in notes from the 1949 grand jury report that investigators had wiretapped George Hodel's home and obtained recorded conversation of him with an unidentified visitor, saying: "Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn't prove it now. They can't talk to my secretary because she's dead. They thought there was something fishy. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. Killed her. Maybe I did kill my secretary." ~ Wikipedia

I would not want to live there, bad vibes

Maybe he doesn't know the Dahlia was found on his property 🤔

Do you think it's haunted?...

The family that lives there has no idea. They dont care.

Do you think that person knows or even cares? "Black Dahlia? What's that? A perfume? A 1980's movie?"

The clean cuts were what made the investigators suspect that a doctor or surgeon committed the murder. Not even a butcher could have made neat clean cuts.

Of the most popular unsolved murder mysteries I put Elizabeth Short in one of the top 3. It's always the same with these old mysteries, no shortage of perfect suspects but the evidence will likely never be there to prove who the murderer actually is beyond all doubt. Hodel is a top suspect but I don't believe the picture that he had was Elizabet Short. The picture is what started what originally aroused his son's suspicion. That surgeon that lived close by is also a great suspect but unless someone finds some concrete piece of evidence I think this one will remain a mystery.

I think the Hodel theory has been discredited- he was basically a BS artist who wanted attention.

@@markharc7615 Who was?

@@IanP1963 Steve Hodel accused his father George Hodel and all his evidence has been discredited and debunked by several that have studied the case.

@@KMNixon Really, where is this debunking of Hodel as a suspect?

Dr. George Hodel?

@@Debra-k1f Dr Walter Bayley. Hodel wasn't a surgeon

Yes Dr George Hodel is the strongest suspect. Wikipedia: Although he was never formally charged in the crime, George Hodel came to wider attention after his death when he was accused by his son, LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel, of killing Short and committing several additional murders. Prior to the Black Dahlia case, Hodel was suspected, but not charged, in the death of his secretary, Ruth Spaulding; and was accused of raping his own daughter, Tamar, but acquitted. Hodel fled the country several times, and lived in the Philippines between 1950 and 1990. Additionally, his son Steve Hodel has cited his father's training as a surgeon as circumstantial evidence. [Elizabeth Short had been sliced in half with surgical precision that only a trained surgeon could do so neatly. Sliced between L1-L2, and neatly cut at the end of the duodenum.] In 2003, it was revealed in notes from the 1949 grand jury report that investigators had wiretapped Hodel's home and obtained recorded conversation of him with an unidentified visitor, saying: "Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn't prove it now. They can't talk to my secretary because she's dead. They thought there was something fishy. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. Killed her. Maybe I did kill my secretary."

Ive heard so many people are leaving or stuck homeless because its so expensive. Its for sure a dream vacation but id be too scared to live there. Seems like alot of bad happened in LA.

Thats Liberal Commie politicians for ya. I don't want to leave this beautiful state but I can't take the politics or the way its ran. If it gets much worse I may just have to.

@@yodasmomisondrugs7959 Go to Florida then. Where Commie Rep "conservatives" let meth heads and burn outs run their state. You should feel right at home lol

@@yodasmomisondrugs7959 Oh wow, maga-T fascist propaganda spewage. So fact-based and original! 🙄 Keep living in your alternate reality, fascist

Bigots hate it here. Go move to a state with your own kind.

Built by Lloyd Wright Jr. it gets rented out now to people similar to how airb&b does ( costly ).

Yeah, LA, Vegas, New York a lot of people go there" knowing " that they're going to make it big, but they all have a gritty underbelly

The doctors son said he really thinks his dad killed her.

GhostCity Shelton and he is wrong.

I also partied there in 1984

Excellent pastrami sandwiches and onion rings too

OMG, I'm interested in the same cases!! Fun fact: I was raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi which is about a 30 minute drive from Money where the incident in the store took place. In 1955, my mom was 5 years old, living in Clarksdale. She says she remembers when Emmett went missing and was found, because everyone in the black community was talking about it! She said that she remembered my grandfather telling my grandma that, "they'll never see that boy again!!" If you haven't done so already, go see the movie, "Till." Or you can also watch the awesome PBS documentary, "The Murder of Emmett Till. "

Glad we can spread some light man. Stay safe and sane out there

Definitely , so many little places on my bucket list thanks to you both hopefully I will come over there at some point

All The DT LA hotels have a dark history even the newer ones. Also in Vegas all the people die in them all the time.

The last time she was seen alive was leaving the Biltmore hotel

She had drinks at the cecil hotel before but she was last seen at the biltmore hotel. She visited the Cecil less frequently then the biltmore.

She wasnt at the Cecil hotel, she was at the Biltmore hotel and she was found quite a few miles from that area.

Liz was last seen at the Biltmore hotel.

Yeah just hearing the basics of her story tells you she was the typical stupid lost girl going through the motions. Meet them all the time as an adult. Doesn't mean they deserve to be murdered for being naive. Did that allow her to put herself in a no return situation, or was it someone her knew her and took advantage? We'll never know!

@@yodasmomisondrugs7959 she wasn't stupid!

@@yodasmomisondrugs7959 Stupid lost girl? She worked in a retail store in my hometown before she went to Hollywood. Back off. Her parents loved her. She was not stupid and she was loved.

I thought that in a documentary there was a short clip of her in a movie. Not well known one, and she was on for seconds with no dialog.

Right. She was said to be an "aspiring actress," but there are no known records of her going on auditions or even getting none speaking roles. She was often broke and dated as often as she did, to get a hot meal on a date!

I believe in God and only He can judge but I bet the doctor may regret what he did in life now.

I read Steve Hodel's book and it was great and well researched! Even though he got the pictures wrong, he put forth enough details to make a convincing case against his dad! I've heard about this other doctor, a Dr. Bailey. Haven't found much information on him.

The evidence against Hodel is pretty interesting, and creepy at the same time. Not to mention the similar gruesome murder in the Philippines around the time he went over there. The FBI were on to him. This story has haunted me for years.

The son states that he believes his dad killed her.

@@ghostcityshelton9378 yeah i remember reading that, too.

@Andrea Wylie Strange and questionable wedges happen in the wheel of justice system so yeah, that is also good possibility.

Hodel DIDNT kill Betty short, or killed anyone in fact.

P Tryner Leslie Dillon was in San Fransisco during the murder. It’s impossible that it was him

I thought the movie was trash 🗑

The "H" suicide i remember reading about it. Sad she got a call for a part a day later just sad. And she wasnt found for a few days. Heartbreaking.

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