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In 1947, on a dismal January morning, Los Angeles woke up to a nightmare. A young woman's body, slashed in half at the waist, had been discovered in an empty lot in the Leimert Park district. Although Elizabeth Short was her real name, the world would soon recognize her as The Black Dahlia. Short's disfigured body was discovered, shocking and horrifying the country and setting off one of the most notorious and persistent murder investigations in American history. The specifics of her death were macabre and strange; her body bore marks of torture and mutilation that suggested she was killed by a vicious individual with a deranged mind. The terrible complexity of Elizabeth Short's life story emerged when the police launched their inquiry. She was a stunning and vibrant young lady who had come to Los Angeles hoping to become famous but ended up entangled in a web of lies and betrayal. For many years to come, investigators and amateur detectives alike would be plagued by these issues as the Black Dahlia case rose to prominence as one of the most persistent unsolved mysteries in American criminal history. But who could have hated Elizabeth Short so much? And why was she the one picked to suffer from such a horrible crime? Due to the fact that the murder of the Black Dahlia has not been solved, it is not only one of the most notorious cold cases in Los Angeles, but it is also one of the oldest. We will delve deeply into the mystery surrounding the Black Dahlia case in this book, uncovering the dark side of 1940s Los Angeles and the secrets that lie below the glitzy Hollywood exterior.

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