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Ex-Cop Claims His Father Was 'Black Dahlia' Killer
NBC4 - TV, Los Angeles ^
| April 11, 2003
| AP
Posted on 04/11/2003 7:04:51 PM PDT by concentric circles
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To: Tall_Texan
Rumors have abounded that she was sexually deformed and the killer was probably disappointed to find out that this great looking beauty wasn't someone he could take to bed. That makes things ironic, doesn't it, when you consider for years she had been portrayed as a prostitute. Fact is, Elizabeth had been living in squalor just prior to her death, as it had been found during her autopsy she had been in poor physical health due to lack of hygiene and malnutrition (her childhood friend Mary Pacios told me this, and John Gilmore's book
Severed confirmed it).
Look at how many people have come forward claiming their family member was the gunman on the Grassy Knoll. I honestly don't know if some of these fakers are looking for fame, money or revenge.
In the years immediately following her murder, a lot of people had come in and confessed. During the last decade, however, the exact opposite is true.
I could name for you a half-dozen people right now who have their own designs on the identity of Elizabeth's killer. And in all honesty, I do not believe even one of them has come close to what really happened in the hours before her body was found on the morning of January 15, 1947.
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posted on
04/11/2003 9:24:29 PM PDT
by
Houmatt
(Call Ashcroft and demand he enforce the laws on treason, sedition and sabotage!!!)
To: concentric circles
Calling for Hercule Poirot!
To: concentric circles
There is a good CD-Rom adventure game about this incident called Black Dahlia.
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:26:23 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(If they truly are God's laws, he can enforce them himself.)
To: Houmatt
Ellroy's mother was also murdered, I believe in the early 1950s. The crime was never solved. At a reading of LA Confidential in 1998, James Ellroy said that he has always wondered if the same person could have killed his mother and Short. He admitted this was unlikely, as there was no similarity between the two crimes. Clearly the parallels between his mother and Short fascinate him.
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:35:32 PM PDT
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motexva
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To: onedoug
Is this the physician the two principal cops working the case had in custody...That's the one. The twists and turns in this case and it's aftermath are almost too numerous to follow.
To: Houmatt
I do not believe even one of them has come close to what really happened...Gilmore's story of Arnold Smith; aka Jack Anderson Wilson, the tall man with a limp; seems to have substance. But then there's Smith's bizarre death before the final tale could be told and the fact that Gilmore had a book to sell.
Interesting story by Russell Miller along this line here.
To: onedoug
"Is this the physician the two principal cops working the case had in custody, and who they strongly supected, but just couldn't turn enough evidence on?"
No...he caught the one-armed man and Tommy Lee let him go!
Ed
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posted on
04/12/2003 1:38:16 AM PDT
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Sir_Ed
To: UnklGene
At least he isn't claiming that his dad was one of the Little Rascals (there have been a whole lot of frauds who made that claim).
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posted on
04/12/2003 2:21:40 AM PDT
by
weegee
(CNN let human beings be tortured and killed to keep their Baghdad bureau open)
To: gcruse
There is a good CD-Rom adventure game about this incident called Black Dahlia. The difference is, while the game does indeed pay reference to the crime, the "Black Dahlia" in this case is a diamond.
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posted on
04/12/2003 7:17:57 AM PDT
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Houmatt
(Call Ashcroft and demand he enforce the laws on treason, sedition and sabotage!!!)
To: concentric circles
That's the one. The twists and turns in this case and it's aftermath are almost too numerous to follow. Pardon?
I have been studying the case for years, and that is the first time I have heard that name.
Exactly when did Harry Hansen and Finis Brown pick up and question Hodel?
According to various news reports from around that time, the only person who was ever considered a suspect was Red Manley (who was cleared after polygraphs and alibi witnesses).
Since then, there have been many false confessors, crackpots (e.g., Janice Knowlton), wild guesses and good possibilities.
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posted on
04/12/2003 7:47:36 AM PDT
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Houmatt
(Call Ashcroft and demand he enforce the laws on treason, sedition and sabotage!!!)
To: Houmatt
You said it! I came to that conclusion after reading half of her book, which I regret paying good money for.
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01/18/2015 12:30:00 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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