Decades of Mystery: Who Was Elizabeth Short? The Real Story Behind the Black Dahlia

The Growth Time Machine with Daniel Curtis · Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 16m

Her 1947 murder became one of the most famous unsolved cases in American history. In the decades since, Elizabeth Short’s life has been buried beneath rumours, competing theories, dramatic “solutions” and a mythology that has often become more famous than the woman herself.In this episode of The Growth Time Machine, Daniel Curtis speaks with Larry Harnisch, a longtime journalist and former Los Angeles Times copy editor who has spent around three decades researching the Black Dahlia case. His investigation began with a Los Angeles Times anniversary story and grew into years of archival…