A retired Los Angeles Times copy editor began researching the Black Dahlia murder case in the late 1990s. Arguably the world’s top authority on the mysteries surrounding Elizabeth Short's death, he believes he knows who killed her.
At the Long Beach drugstore counter where she liked to linger, a jobless young woman named Elizabeth Short acquired the playful nickname that would fuel her long, macabre afterlife. She dyed her hair jet black, matching the funereal hue of the clothes she favored. The Black Dahlia, people called her, riffing on a Raymond Chandler noir motion picture called 'The Blue Dahlia.' After Short’s mutilated body was found on Jan.
“There was a little bit of edge play going on,' she said. Short was 'striking out on a whim without much of a plan.” Redding tries to show students the ways that Short’s past made her vulnerable. How her father abandoned her family when she was 6. How terrible asthma curtailed her education. How she never recovered from the 1945 death of a military pilot she loved, which seemed to initiate a “progressive degeneration of her ability to cope with the world and take care of herself.
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