Black Dahlia: Ask Me Anything, January 2024

Welcome to this month's Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case. Report on the book. 138,000 words as of Friday. I have finished Part 1, which is the life of Elizabeth Short. Right now I’m on the Biltmore lobby. The “lost week.” And I will point out that the people who insist the most adamantly that they know where Elizabeth Short went are the least trustworthy. How to honor Elizabeth Short’s memory – charitable donation to an organization that deals with the homeless or victims of domestic violence. I talked about Leslie Dillon; the attitude district attorney's investigator Frank Jemison toward Elizabeth Short; the surgical skill shown by Elizabeth Short's killer; Los Angeles newspapers of the 1940s; whether the killing of Elizabeth Short affected property values in Leimert Park; and other unsolved murders of women in the 1940s.