Elizabeth Short
The body of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was discovered brutally murdered on January 15, 1947, in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los Angeles, her body cut in half, drained of blood, and cleaned of all evidence.
The sole witness was of little help, claiming only to have seen a black sedan parked in the area. Despite many theories, allegations, and leads over the years, the killer was never found. Today, the Black Dahlia murder (as the case came to be known) remains one of the oldest cold case files in L.A., and the city’s most famous.
