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Black Dahlia: ‘I Killed the Black Dahlia’
Just when I thought I had seen every sort of lunacy that’s possible about the Black Dahlia case, I found this in my local paper yesterday. Did someone finally confess to the “grusome” murder? Look!...
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Black Dahlia: George Hodel, Soil Analysis and Sweeps Month
Look it’s an “update” on the Buster the Wonder Dog saga, via L.A. Observed. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. For those of you (that would be most of the world) who haven’t followed the saga of “Buster the...
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Black Dahlia: The Black Dahlia Files and Donald Wolfe
While we are on the subject of nonsense in the Black Dahlia case, the Sky Valley Chronicle posted a story yesterday based on Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files.” As many of you may know, this...
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Black Dahlia: Not for Young Readers
Imagine my surprise to find this little gem floating around on the Internet, and I see that I’m a couple of years late. According to Amazon, it’s a 2011 account of the Black Dahlia case for middle...
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Black Dahlia: Bevo Means Did Not Name the Black Dahlia Case
I recently heard from someone who had taken a bus tour of Los Angeles and wondered why the tour guide said that Bevo Means had named the Black Dahlia case. The answer, of course, is no, if the tour...
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Black Dahlia: Lily DuTertre and Wikipedia
Unless you prowl the outer fringes of the publishing industry, you may have never heard of Lily DuTertre, who is an avid compiler of “high quality Wikipedia articles” into books. Like this one on...
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Black Dahlia: A New ‘Suspect’ (Who Isn’t Dr. George Hodel) and a New...
Nobody does “true” crime stories quite like the Brits. And the Daily Mail is all over this one. Suppose I told you that Suzanne Degnan (1946), the Black Dahlia (1947), Jimmy Hoffa (disappeared 1975),...
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Black Dahlia: Fixing a Small Error Before It Becomes a Big One
KPCC recently did a story about the LAPD’s archive of crime photos. And whoever wrote the caption took a logical – but incorrect – guess about the people in this photo of the Black Dahlia crime scene....
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Imagining the Future
Note: This is a post I wrote in 2006. The subject came up today when I was having lunch with Ed Fuentes, so I thought I would repost it. Notice that in this plan, Union Station was to have been built...
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Black Dahlia: 1947 L.A. Examiner Front Page Sells for $500+
Someone bought this front page of the Jan. 17, 1947, Los Angeles Examiner, with the story about the identification of Elizabeth Short, for $511.01. Not the entire paper. Just the front page. The...
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Black Dahlia: ‘Not Elizabeth Short’ For Sale on EBay
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. An EBay vendor has listed this hand-colored picture with bids starting at $99.99, stating that…. Well, read it in their own words: AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS OF RESEARCH AND...
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Black Dahlia: RIP Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who died yesterday at the age of 95, is better remembered for “77 Sunset Strip” and “The F.B.I.” He’s probably even better remembered for “The Chapman Report.” But yes, he did...
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Black Dahlia: Photos and Newspaper Clippings on EBay
A large lot of Black Dahlia material, including newspaper clippings, several magazines, newspaper photos, etc., has been listed on EBay. Bidding is currently 99 cents but I’m sure it will go much...
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Black Dahlia: Dr. George Hodel and Soil Test Results …‘Definitely Not...
KNBC-TV Channel 4 has finally updated its story on Buster the Wonder Dog finding … something … at the purported Murder HQ of Dr. George Hodel. Let’s review the timeline: On Nov. 9, 2012, the makers of...
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Black Dahlia: My Photos of Elizabeth Short Get Around
Some folks on the Internet are quite casual about where they get images. I always watermark mine so that even if someone swipes it, the url is still visible — unless someone crops it out. Here’s a...
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Black Dahlia: Joseph G. Fickling Memorabilia on EBay
An EBay vendor has listed the pilot wings that belonged to Joseph G. Fickling, Elizabeth Short’s onetime boyfriend. Apparently these items were in a storage unit. The vendor has posted a photo of...
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Black Dahlia: Gloria Swanson Photo Inscribed to Mark Hansen on EBay
Here’s another item that is tangentially related to the Black Dahlia case: A photograph of Gloria Swanson inscribed to Florentine Gardens business manager Mark Hansen. Hansen was a small-time operator...
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Black Dahlia: Donald Wolfe, ‘The Black Dahlia Files’ and a Faked Document...
Page 198 of Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files.” Someone asked about the fake a document in Donald Wolfe’s “The Black Dalia Files.” Here’s a post I wrote about it on April 14, 2006. Eight years...
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Black Dahlia: True Detective, October 1948
A copy of the October 1948 issue of True Detective with a cover story on “The Black Dahlia Murders” has been listed on EBay. This is the magazine that got poor old Leslie Dillon in trouble. The...
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July 29 — Elizabeth Short’s birthday
Today is Elizabeth Short’s birthday. She would have been 90.
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