Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924-- January 15, 1947), well-known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was an American lady discovered killed in the Leimert Park community of Los Angeles, The Golden State. Her case ended up being very advertised as a result of the visuals nature of the crime, which included her remains having been mutilated and bisected at the midsection. A local of Boston, Short invested her very early life in Medford and Florida before moving to The golden state, where her papa lived. It is generally held that Short was an aspiring starlet, though she had no known acting credit reports or work throughout her time in Los Angeles. She would certainly acquire the label of the Black Dahlia posthumously (after the owner of a drugstore in Long Coastline, California, informed press reporters that male clients had that name for her), as newspapers of the duration commonly nicknamed particularly lurid criminal activities; the term may have stemmed from a film noir murder mystery, H...