Victim
Elizabeth Short
- Born
- 29 July 1924
- Died
- January 1947, aged about 23
- Record
- Wikidata Q233693 · Wikipedia
Victim in The Black Dahlia Murder
Massachusetts-born woman killed in Los Angeles; nicknamed the Black Dahlia by the press. Killed around January 14-15, 1947.
1947–1949 · Los Angeles, California · Unsolved
Elizabeth Short, 22, was murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947. Hundreds confessed, dozens were suspected, and no one was ever charged. Read the case.
Dated events
Elizabeth Short is born in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston.
Short moves to Vallejo, California, to live with the father she had believed dead.
Short arrives in the Los Angeles area, where she spends the last six months of her life.
Robert Manley drops Short at the Biltmore Hotel; it is her last confirmed sighting.
A packet containing Short's birth certificate and address book is mailed to the Examiner.