He's challenging decades of victim-blaming the 'Black Dahlia'

The Woman Who Became the Black Dahlia

Elizabeth Short liked to wander. Sometimes this wandering was merely in her mind, watching movies and dreaming of a life

He's challenging decades of victim-blaming the 'Black Dahlia'

Historian William J. Mann book, 'Black Dahlia,' is a fresh account that restores dignity to Elizabeth Short, the young woman long stamped with tragedy and the infamous moniker.

The Unusual Suspects: Who Were the Main Players in the Black Dahlia Murder

All morning long, the detectives in the Homicide Department had done their best to keep to their regular business, refraining from glancing up every time the door opened. But the nearer the hands of the clock moved toward ten, the more that became difficult. The waiting wasn’t made any easier by the heat, which the papers were calling a sample of July. It was the sort of weather where trousers stick to seats and envelopes seal themselves. What a…

William J. Mann on Rumors, the Press, and the Black Dahlia Murder’s Enigmatic Players

All morning long, the detectives in the Homicide Department had done their best to keep to their regular business, refraining from glancing up every time the door opened. But the nearer the hands of the clock moved toward ten, the more that became difficult. The waiting wasn’t made any easier by the heat, which the papers were calling a sample of July. It was the sort of weather where trousers stick to seats and envelopes seal themselves. What a…

Book review of Black Dahlia by William J. Mann

True crime fans will find William J. Mann’s Black Dahlia to be a comprehensive and definitive guide to one of America’s most enduring mysteries.

ZODIAC SERIAL KILLER CASE CRACKED? LINKED TO DISMEMBERED ACTRESS?

Elizabeth Short was an American woman found nude, murdered in Los Angeles, California, in 1947. She became known as the “Black Dahlia.” The case was highly publicized due to its gruesome nature, and remains unsolved. The Zodiac killer, pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer, murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area over the span of about nine months. He claimed in letters to have killed 37 people, but he was never identifi…