On January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short's body lay on the corner of 39th Street and Norton Street in Crenshaw, Los Angeles, USA. After the police interrogated several men who had had an affair with Short, they found no clues except that it was a restless girl. It was pure luck that the Los Angeles Observer was given the news rights to the case, the last big case in the American newspaper industry, and soon thereafter the scene of such a big event was packed with TV cameras, radio vans and Live TV reporters. The involvement of newspapers amplifies the brutality of the murderer and makes the police even more stupid. Two weeks after the body was found, the Los Angeles Observer received a package containing Short's wallet, Social Security cards, and assorted other cards and pieces of paper, as well as an address book. It is almost certain that the package came from the murderer. He carefully wiped everything with gasoline, leaving no trace, as if to play a trick on the police. He tore several pages from the address book. According to the remaining more than 200 names, The police found nothing. Then came the swarms of surrenders. A curly-haired veteran with black dahlia clippings in his pockets said drunkenly when he saw the police: "I drink too much, and I'm rude to women." He was later sent to a mental hospital. There was also a doctor's assistant, who claimed to be highly skilled at cutting corpses, and later found out that he wanted to be detained at the police station for a period of time in order to avoid a business trip. There are also women who turned themselves in: "Short stole my husband, and I will cut her into eight pieces." About 300 people turned themselves in within a few years of the incident, but none of them gave the correct details of the corpse.
Elizabeth Short was later recorded in a book called "Hollywood Scandal": "She was a slutty whore who slept with whomever she saw, and finally a jealous man split her into pieces in a fit of rage. Two halves." Later, John Gilmore, an American writer who loves to write about homicides, wrote "The Divided: The Truth About the Murder of the Black Dahlia" and dropped a few bombs. One of them was an autopsy report showing that Elizabeth Short's genitals were not fully developed and could not have sexual intercourse at all. The discovery offers a fresh perspective, no longer the cliché of a call girl, but a pretty girl jumping from one man's arms to another, playing a chain game. Another bomb dropped by the writer was that the murderer was an alcoholic named Jack Anderson, aka Arnold Smith. After drinking too much, he boasted about many details that only the murderer would know, and was recorded. Just as the police were about to arrest Smith, he dozed off smoking in a small Dutch hotel in downtown Los Angeles, which caused a fire and burned to death.
The Black Dahlia Case has also written numerous films and several movies. The writer Jim Moore said that the reason why people are obsessed with the Black Dahlia from generation to generation is because the corpse, like a huge and strange magnetic field, acts on people's subconscious, and never gets caught. The murderer who arrives adds color to it. Elizabeth Short, like the murderer, satisfies the 'achievement hunger'. People with black dahlia tattoos on their arms can be seen everywhere in Los Angeles; goatee-loving pseudo-artists still love to talk about her and deify her; as recently as 2006, there was a movie called "Black Dahlia", Shaw Tet is the most fashionable lesbian in the dimly minded. In 1947, Elizabeth Short was a dazed, inconspicuous little girl among the crowd, but now she is a legend. "Another factor that complicates this case is the psychological confusion surrounding the dead black dahlia, even more so than when she was alive," said an LAPD officer.
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