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- NAME: Black Dahlia
- BIRTH DATE: July 29, 1924
- DEATH DATE: c. January 15, 1947
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts
- PLACE OF DEATH: Los Angeles, California
- Full Name: Elizabeth Short
- AKA: Beth Short
- Nickname: "Black Dahlia"
- AKA: "The Black Dahlia"
- AKA: Bette Short
- AKA: Betty Short
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Nicknamed "the Black Dahlia," Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered in Los Angeles in 1947, her body cut in half and severely mutilated. The Black Dahlia's killer was never found, making her murder one of the oldest cold case files in L.A. to date, and the city's most famous.
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According to the Sun, the investigative team has uncovered incriminating evidence against Hodel's father, Dr. George Hill Hodel, who the younger Hodel has long believed to be the Black Dahlia killer. In February 2013, the team conducted an extensive search of the doctor's home, where Buster had previously detected the scent of human decomposition in several areas of the basement, according to reports. Following their search,
soil samples taken from Dr. Hodel's home were reportedly submitted for lab testing.
Other evidence against George Hodel, according to his son, includes an old recording of a conversation between the doctor and an unknown person, during which Dr. Hodel allegedly stated, "Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn't prove it now. They can't talk to my secretary because she's dead."
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