The Girl the Newspapers Invented: The Black Dahlia Murder
The Girl the Newspapers Invented: The Black Dahlia Murder of Elizabeth Short
On a January morning in 1947, a young mother pushing a stroller through a half-built Los Angeles neighborhood saw what she thought was a discarded mannequin in the weeds. It was a twenty-two-year-old woman, posed, drained of blood, and left a step from the sidewalk. Within days the whole country knew her by a nickname she never used in life. But who was Elizabeth Short before the press turned her into the "Black Dahlia"? What happened during the six days between the hotel lobby where she was last seen and the vacant…
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