Severed: The True Story of the "Black Dahlia" Murder

The first and still the best book on the strangest of all officially unsolved murders in the annals of modern crime January 1947. LA. Elizabeth Short, aka 'The Black Dahlia', a small-town beauty queen, is found murdered on wasteground. She has been badly mutilated. Her body bisected...John Gilmore, who has spent thirty-five years investigating the case, here tells the story of Short's tragically futile life and reveals the tangled inside story of the police investigation, which never resulted in a conviction. But most shocking of all, he recounts the startling circumstances and gruesome details of the killer's indirect confessions to him and the circumstances of his death.