Black Dahlia

Elizabeth Ann Short, also known as, the Black Dahlia was born on July 29, 1924, at Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Short was murdered on January 14, 1947. Her mutilated body was found in a vacant lot in a residential area of Los Angeles, CA. Short was identified through the FBI Identification Division files. Numerous persons were questioned in the murder of Short, but her killer was never found... - Words provided under Freedom of Information Privacy Act by Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States.

This is the latest mystery what has taken over my mind completely. How it started is, i watched this movie, The Black Dahlia, yesterday. There was a creepy twist after the climax and i couldn't understand that. So i googled for the movie and i came to know that the movie is based on a novel, The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy. i tried searching for some explanation about the twist and later i reached a webpage where it was stated that this Black Dahlia is not a fiction, it's a real murder case. Fine, it's ok till here. just for the curiosity, i used wikipedia to know more about the case and i spotted this line: About 60 people confessed to the murder, mostly men, as well as a few women !!! why the hell ?!?!?!? to know the answer, i dug more into this and finally, found that this case is one of the most mysterious murder case ever and so far, FBI and Los Angeles Police Department has not found the actual criminal !

Widely popular theory about Black Dahlia is: Elizabeth Short was among the abandoned five sisters and she lived her life on her own in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Massachusetts etc places, worked as a waitress and kept changing her apartments and hotels every two three weeks. She had a boyfriend Matthew Gordon, who was an Air Force pilot and a part of the 2nd Air Commandos in the China Burma India theater of operations. He used to write letters to her from India and she had a baby with him but it turned out to be a miscarriage. She was an amateur porn star and she was found dead on January 15, 1947 in Los Angeles. Her murder reached such a level of publicity that it involved hundreds of officers and thousands of suspects. It had became a trend to get involved in her murder case. Just to earn popularity, more than 60 people confessed that they have committed her murder. But till now, the murder has remained the mystery and nobody knows who killed her.

alright, here starts the interesting part. after googling for a while, i reached FBI website where i found complete investigation report of Elizabeth Short's murder. i mean, it's not a joke, it's a complete log-book of every damn thing about this murder !!! every press footage, right from her sample hair to her nails, her blood to DNA present in her cloths, details about every single evidence, all the information came in, all the information went out, entire history of Elizabeth Short, entire suspects' list, her all possible photographs including the ones shot at the crime site and trust me, each and every photograph is almost 80 years old and they're the scariest photographs i've ever seen !!! this report is more more more interesting and shocking than any Sidney Sheldon stuff. i ran through entire 204 pages document and read every single word about the crime. How the victim was identified, how she was tortured before the murder, how her face was ruined with sharp glass, how her face was brutally slashed when she was alive, how her body was sliced in two separate pieces, how her blood was drained from her body... it was more terrifying than any other suspense thriller i have seen so far !

Although, there were two three prime suspects who could have possibly killed her. One of them was a director from Hollywood who had quite a business of producing high standard whores and high society porn who used Elizabeth for his movies. Another suspect is a daughter of well known contractor from Los Angeles who was a lesbian and acted in porn movies with Elizabeth and raped her brutally on screen. But as per FBI report, it was medically proven that she never had sex in her life and neither any sex tapes were found by LAPD. But in later pages of the report, i read that the doctor who certified her virginity was among the suspects at a point of time, around 7 years after the murder. in fact, earlier it was stated that because of certain genetical disorder, she was suffering from infantile genitalia. That was proved fake by FBI medical officers but it could never help them to prove that she had a child with her boyfriend whom they could never trace as they believed he died in 2nd world war in India. Later, her boyfriend's family was contacted but they denied the fact that Elizabeth had any engagements Matthew Gordon. FBI had put every damn person linked to her on suspect list. Starting from the officers spotted her dead body first, officers who did the primary investigation, officers who were on duty in Hollywood, officers who were linked with the prostitutes living near by the crime site, the people from neighborhood, owners of the hotel where she worked, relatives of the sisters of hers and lot more ! Years after that, when FBI couldn't solve the case, they announced $10000 reward on confession, just for the sake of money and publicity, around 60+ people came forward. Not only that, but it was a competition among them who earns the reward and for that, several confessors were attacked by the other ones. After Elizabeth, two other murders were committed and it is believed that they were the real people connected with the actual murderer and to secure the reward, they were killed before they confessed the crime. There are couple of letters in FBI report flooded between Director of FBI and Social organisation heads on the topic of request not to publicize the case anymore as the psychological sickness of the murderer had started taking over the community.

I finished reading the FBI report and gave a last google and guess what? i landed on a website which claims that they have the solution for the Black Dahlia mystery ! i couldn't stop myself from clicking on the link and the chapters where i landed were more more strange, more more surprising and stunning. and of course, they were far more creepy than FBI report.

I closed that website and felt pity for her. She was hardly 14 when she started living by herself. when she was separated from her father, she was an asthma patient. There are a few photographs of her in the report when she's normal. She looked quite attractive, kiddish and innocent and ambitious. but in later sections, where it is explained line by line what she went through, her victimized photographs are posted on every single page. She looks freaking scary in those pages. Sexual psychopath who killed her, raped her multiple times with different sex gears. He tortured her worse than army torture and that too, for hours and hours. He mercilessly ripped her skin off the face. slowly trailed a knife from her mouth to her ears. sliced her body in two different pieces, and she was alive when he did all these !!! he drained her blood completely out of the body and left two pieces of hers aside the street. I was reading the documents alone in my apartment and there was nothing around me but dark and sounds of one cat crying outside. On screen, i had this blood lines printed and there was Elizabeth's chopped up face with crows biting her eyes in right bottom of the screen. i had no guts to turn my eyes up and look at any corner of the room. i had not blinked since a long time and neither i moved the page on my screen, and all of a sudden, an email alert came on screen with a sound ping and fuck !!! that scared the shit out of me !!! i missed couple of hart beats !!! that was the most horrifying moment ever !!! i mean, it's not like that horror stuff scares me. in fact, i've watched the highly ranked horror movie The Grudge alone in the apartment at 2 in night, but i'd been reading about last days of this girl whose murder is a real story, more scarier than any other thriller movie ! i am alone in my apartment nowadays and i have this haunted shelf right above my bed. When i am sleeping, i always get a feeling that someone is peeping from there. showing his half blurred face and staring into my eyes. The face somewhat looks exactly like Elizabeth's !

Fine, let's cut it here. I am deleting this report now and an advice: it's better to watch thriller movies rather than reading real murder investigation reports :)