Instituto
Tecnológico
Superior de Loreto
TecNM Campus
Loreto
Ingeniería Industrial
3” B”
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PROJECT EVIDENCE
- Jair Abed Acosta Barranco-
Jesús Alberto Mares Reyes
The case of the Black Dahlia, the most famous murder in
Los Angeles that decades later continues to attract the
fascination of the public.
Few noticed the presence of that dark-haired woman when they left her at the
elegant Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, United States.
But when her torso was found nearly a week later, Elizabeth Short became a
household name and the legend of the Black Dahlia began, a case that 70 years
later remains unsolved.
On the morning of Jan. 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger was walking with her young
daughter down an unfinished street in a construction zone in the Californian city's
Leimert Park neighborhood when she saw what she thought were the two halves of
a tailor's mannequin.
But it was actually Short's body, who had been cut in two, right at her waist, and
had no trace of blood.
She had been mutilated, they took out her intestines and cut her from the corners of
her ears, the
The murder became "a sad cliché, a warning fable: the deluded young woman
comes to Hollywood and things go very wrong for her," says the former sergeant.
She was soon given the nickname, Black Dahlia, in a nod to the film The Blue
Dahlia, starring Veronica Lake and released the previous year, and because Short
sported dark hair.
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In the decades since, the Black Dahlia's case has inspired university theses, art
projects, and the name of a death metal band, and has been referenced in video
games and television shows.
In 2006 it even made it to the cinema, in an adaptation of James Ellroy's successful
novel inspired by the case.
Ellroy himself says he has no hope that the culprit can be found.
The crime "is never going to be solved, because it wasn't meant to be solved," he
says.
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"We debunked a lot of theories about the posible killers and tried to focus on
Elizabeth Short's story as a person," he says.
And she remembers the surprise when an older man who joined one of their
excursions assured them that he had a connection with the Black Dahlia.
"He told us that as a child, as a newspaper delivery man, he was one of the first to
arrive at the scene of the crime. He told us that Short was the first naked woman he
ever saw," Cooper explains.
"I think it affected him for the rest of his life."
Like the 19th-century London murders attributed to Jack the Ripper, Short's murder
continues to give rise to new theories.
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More recently, Steve Hodel, a former homicide detective, claimed that the killer
was his father, a doctor named George, and that he also committed other
memorable crimes.
Police searched Hodel's former home "We debunked a lot of theories about the
possible killers and tried to focus on Elizabeth Short's story as a person," he says.
And she remembers the surprise when an older man who joined one of their
excursions assured them that he had a connection with the Black Dahlia.
"He told us that as a child, as a newspaper delivery man, he was one of the first to
arrive at the scene of the crime. He told us that Short was the first naked woman he
ever saw," Cooper explains.
"I think it affected him for the rest of his life."
Like the 19th-century London murders attributed to Jack the Ripper, Short's murder
continues to give rise to new theories.
The extraordinary story of Donovan Tavera, the man who cleans up the blood after
the murders in Mexico
More recently, Steve Hodel, a former homicide detective, claimed that the killer
was his father, a doctor named George, and that he also committed other
memorable crimes.
Police searched Hodel's former home