Hes a journalist, he lets the facts guide him, and he doesnt have any agenda other than the truth., Anne Redding, chair of the Justice Studies Department at Santa Barbara City College, has researched the homicide for more than thirty years and uses it as a centerpiece in her Study of Murder class. The book was made into a widely-panned Brian De Palma film. His father was devastated. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. Dillon offered up one of his friends, Jeff Connors, as a likely suspect. Two of the photos, he was convinced, were of Elizabeth Short. Dillon was living in Florida at the time of his correspondence with De River, but had formerly lived in Los Angeles. His evidence was simply not convincing, Lambkin says. In 2003, Steve Hodel published a book, Black Dahlia Avenger; A Genius for Murder, in which he claimed his father, who died in 1999, had murdered Short and was responsible for other unsolved killings over two decades. Those who claimed to have identified the killer, he felt, were deluded. It is theorized that Dr Bayley's degenerative brain disorder which symptoms include homicidal ideation/behaviour in even pacifists. Prior to Wilson's death, however, Gilmore made an entirely different claim to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in a story appearing January 17, 1982. The FBI, who had been called into the case to provide forensic assistance, noted in their files the problematic behavior of the reporters. Bayleys lesion and drastic personality change could be the result of, Frontotemporal dementia from a series of little strokes, Fallon says. An eerie grin was slashed along the edges of her mouth. Harnisch points out that this was a hulking eight-story medical building devoted entirely to doctors, so just having an office there proves nothing. London has Jack the Ripper. In fact, police never could account for Dillon's whereabouts between January9 and January15, 1947. . In his correspondence, he mentioned an intense interest in sadism and sexual violence in hopes of authoring a book on the subject. Detective David Lambkin, who was head of the Unit at the time, said that Hodel lost credibility as a result of the numerous other murders he attributed to his father. Harnisch is writing a book about the case, but the homicide and the investigation are only part of his focus. Thats kind of given the case new life.. The horrific homicide has sparked such enduring fascination that the crime has been transformed into kitsch. He rode toward her, to prevent her from wandering into a busy street, when he was hit by a truck. In December 1946, she ended up in San Diego where she met the cashier at an all-night movie theater. "The things that she is saying are not consistent with the facts of the case. Traced the address to a prominent surgeon named Dr. Walter Bayley In 1946 Dr. Bayley had started to exhibit signs of early onset Alzheimers, had abandoned and disinherited his family, and lived with a younger . Others wrote that the newspapers gave Short the sobriquet. While some of the original 24 suspects were discounted, new ones have arisen. And he spends his evenings watching surgery films. The following acquaintances of Hodel were questioned and none were able to connect the suspect with murder: Fred Sexton, 1020 White Knoll Drive; Nita Moladero, 1617 North Normandy [Normandie]; Ellen Taylor 5121 Fountain Avenue; Finlay Thomas, 616 South Normandy [Normandie]; Mildred B. Colby, 4029 Vista Del Monte Street, Sherman Oaks, this witness was a girlfriend of Charles Smith, abortionist friend of Hodel, Turin Gilkey, 1025 North Wilcox; Irene Summerset, 1236 North Edgemont; Norman Beckett, 1025 North Wilcox; Ethel Kane, 1033 North Wilcox; Annette Chase, 1039 North Wilcox; Dorothy Royer, 1636 North Beverly Glenn. I absolutely love research, he says. Finally, the murder has been the most frustrating pursuit of all. One theory held that, because Short had checked her baggage, including her clothing and cosmetics, a week before she died, she must have been staying with another woman (who presumably would have lent Short the essentials) during the intervening time. When Larry Harnisch, a Los Angeles Times copy editor and writer, began studying the case in 1996, he eventually concluded that Bayley could be Short's killer. Bayley had a degenerative brain disorder, which could have resulted in violent behavior. When he studied the marriage certificate, he discovered the couple was married in Inglewood. She immediately accepted. In the early 1990s, George Knowlton's daughter Janice began claiming that she had witnessed her father murdering Elizabeth Short, a claim she based largely on "recovered memories" that surfaced during therapy for depression after a hysterectomy. What keeps me going is that I promised myself I would clear up all the lies and myths and try to reclaim Elizabeth Short from the Dahlia freaks. He rode toward her, to prevent her from wandering into a busy street, when he was hit by a truck. Hansen was also linked to three other suspects, each of whom was a medical doctor: Dr. Patrick S. O'Reilly, Dr. M. M. Schwartz, and Dr. Arthur McGinnis Faught. . Walter Bayley (1529-1593), was an English physician. Hodel lies, Dr. Walter Bayley, a surgeon who lived in the neighborhood did it. The drastic personality shift at the end of Bayleys life wasnt anything I could have ever dreamed of happening, she told him. Take away any one element and nobody would care today. When he asked her about Elizabeth Short, she became wary. Despite persistent attempts by Republic Pictures to get him to return to complete the film, he refused. Reporters interviewed an acquaintance of Short and discovered that she had checked luggage that contained all her belongings at a bus station in Los Angeles. There were more than a half-dozen editions a day and editors prodded reporters for scoops so editions could be updated. They couldn't prove it now. She said to a cop who also spent time there, They should call her the Black Dahlia. The cop is the one who gave this account to the newspapers. Hurrying to the Times morgue, he searched the clips for Ruth Bayley and what he eventually found shifted his rolefrom writer to sleuth. His research began when he was a copy editor at the, Harnisch did not grow up in Los Angeles with iterative reminders of the Dahlia case. Walter was our only sonthe only child of our flesh and blood, Bayley said in a newspaper story. But there was still another component to Walter's crumbling life and that had to do with his health. Dumais, a 29-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey, confessed to Short's murder a few weeks after it occurred. An address book embossed with Hansen's name was among Short's belongings mailed to the Los Angeles Examiner after her murder by someone claiming to be the killer. Later, Hodel says, Ellroy pissed backwards, recanted his earlier endorsement, and told interviewers, maybe I was fooled. I interviewed Ellroy recently for another story I was writing, and we chatted amiably for about twenty minutes. Gordons mother later told reporters that Short had sent her son twenty-seven letters in eleven days. Detective Brian Carr, the LAPD officer in charge of the Black Dahlia case at the time of Steve's briefing, said in a televised interview that he was baffled by Kay's response. This interview and the, When he finally tracked down Barbara Lindgren, his initial investigation into Bayley was almost complete. According to the files, at the time of the murder O'Reilly was a good friend of Hansen and frequented Hansen's nightclub. Although critics of Harnisch's theory question whether Bayley's mental and physical condition at the time of the murder would have been consistent with the commission of this type of crime, the original investigators' theory that the body was cut in half because the killer wasn't strong enough to move it intact partially answers this objection. When Bayley died in January 1948, his autopsy showed that he was suffering from a degenerative brain disease. Now I find out he had some kind of secret and lived in constant fear of being exposed. Harnisch disagrees with the claim made by some writers that the detectives were inept, and the case was compromised by department corruption. The Short family and the Bayley families know each other. It was so partisan, he says, picking at his chicken pot pie. He sipped his V.O. I think there was another unknown serial killer that he has also stated was likely his father. Ten days after Shorts body was found, the killer mailed an envelope of Shorts belongings to the Examiner. Kay, however, later insisted that he did not agree with Hodels contention of a police cover-up. The other photograph remains unidentified. Richardson informed Jack Donahoe, the head of LAPDs Homicide Squad about his finding and said he would tell him where the suitcases wereunder one condition. Detectives had planned to mail her fingerprints to the FBI in Washington, but an Examiner editor suggested using the papers Soundphoto machine, which was similar to a fax, to transmit the fingerprints to the Hearst Washington Bureau and then hand deliver them to the FBI. Bayley had an office a few blocks from the Biltmore Hotel, the last place where Short was seen alive. I happened to be working on the rewrite desk of the, Once Short was identified, reporters scurried to find out as much about her as possibleon deadline. Thats off the charts weird. Based on these recovered memories, Knowlton published Daddy Was The Black Dahlia Killer with veteran crime writer Michael Newton in 1995. After encountering these early erroneous accounts, he vowed that everything he wrote would be exact, backed by authenticated sources, and he ended up spending an inordinate amount of time, which stalled his own research and writing, challenging the accounts of other writers. Frontotemporal dementia primarily affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. OK, but so were a lot of people. Det. The living room in his 1910 bungalow is cluttered with his great-grandmothers china cabinet and mirrors; his grandfathers tool chest, which he uses as a coffee table; his mothers piano; a Maxfield Parish lithograph that his grandfather gave his grandmother when they married; and on the mantle his grandparents candelabras and an antique German wind-up clock. The story was such big news, the body was found down the street from her mothers house, and the family knew Shorts sister. A beautiful girl who is an up and coming actress, brutally tortured and murdered. Hansen was a Hollywood nightclub owner at whose home Short lived, either as a paying boarder or as a guest, on several occasions between May 1946 and October 1946. His father was devastated. After the article ran and Harnisch began researching the book he intended to write, he was haunted by Douglas supposition, so he embarked on a search to find out everything he could about the 3800 block of Norton Avenue and the surrounding neighborhood. Dr Walter Bayley who knew Elizabeth's older sister, Virginia. He had the strange habit of watching surgery films at night. Webbs story is like a mini-morality tale: A little girl doesnt listen to her mommy and makes this horrible discovery. Harnisch obtained Bayleys death certificate and one of the causes of death is listed as encephalomalacia. Walter Thomas Bailey (January 11, 1882 - February 21, 1941) was an American architect from Kewanee, Illinois.He was the first African American graduate with a bachelor of science degree in architectural engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the first licensed African-American architect in the state of Illinois. West was the ultimate boy scout, Harnisch says, a devout Presbyterian. The case was dropped owing to lack of evidence, but documents were later found that indicated Spaulding was about to publicly accuse Hodel of intentionally misdiagnosing patients and billing them for laboratory tests, medical treatment, and prescriptions not needed. He called Harnischs theory the most plausible explanation of the murder that Ive heardthe theory is great. Severed also claims Wilson was involved in the murder of Georgette Bauerdorf. Not to mention Black Dahlia's body was found in Hollywood, California. When he asked her about Elizabeth Short, she became wary. In 1999, she claimed in various public forums that Norman Chandler participated in a coverup of the murder. Walter Bayley (1529-1593), English physician; Harold Walter Bailey (1899-1996), English scholar of languages This page was last edited on 11 March 2017, at 19:46 (UTC). Hes a journalist, he lets the facts guide him, and he doesnt have any agenda other than the truth. That is why Ive been so miserable. He returned to Long Beach, and she spent the next few months crashing at the apartments of acquaintances, telling guys she met sob stories she was having trouble cashing checks or she was a war widow whose baby had died in order to cadge money for meals. Stephen Kay proclaimed the case solved, but others have noted that he had formed this conclusion by treating Steve's many disputed assertions as established fact. The murder of Elizabeth Short has spawned numerous books, countless newspaper articles, several movies, in addition to video games and podcasts. The files indicate that O'Reilly had once been married to the daughter of an LAPD captain who was also a bisexual.[14]. There have been countless bizarre unsolved murders in Los Angeles and most of them have been forgotten. Bayley was never a suspect in the case, but many medical doctors and others with medical training were. She agreed to serve as the matron of honor at Shorts sisters wedding, she told Harnisch, because there wasnt anybody else. When he suggested that such a role indicated a close level of friendship, she was very dismissive and refused to elaborate. . Dr. Walter Alonzo Bayley was a Los Angeles surgeon who lived in a house one block south of the vacant lot in which Elizabeth Short's body was found, until he left his wife in October 1946. [33] While Severed says that homicide Detective John St. John was about to "close in" on Wilson based on the material Gilmore provided, St. John told the Herald-Examiner in the same article that he was busy with other killings and would review Gilmore's claims when he got time. She said that she was with Doctor Hodel sometime prior to the murder and that she knew nothing about his being associated with the victim. Fallon, who is familiar with the Elizabeth Short murder, agrees that the location of the lesion is the key. They threw hundreds of cops and investigators borrowed from other departments at this murder. During his reporting for the fiftieth anniversary story he interviewed legendary FBI profiler John Douglas. While most decades-old murders slip into obscurity, the Black Dahlia case attracts so much attention that the LAPD has continued to assign the homicide to a specific detective since the lead investigator retired in 1960. [22] Steve Hodel maintains a website wherein he continues to update the case with additional discovered information.[23]. After spending more than two decades investigating the case and Los Angeles history, and researching the victim and a suspect, Harnisch anticipates finally finishing his book next year. After experimental film director Kenneth Angers book Hollywood Babylon II, was published in 1984, featuring lurid crime-scene photos that exposed the grotesque nature of the crime to a new generation of readers, it created wide-spread interest in the case. Dillon was a 27-year-old bellhop, aspiring writer, and former mortician's assistant who became a suspect when he began writing to Los Angeles Police Department psychiatrist Dr. J. Paul De River in October 1948. I decided to do the story like it was breaking news, like a second day story. Her anonymity was soon transformed into notoriety and her case evolved into the nations most infamous unsolved murder. Douglas asked Harnisch what he knew about the neighborhood. Although I wasnt quite there yet, this was definitely interesting. The picture, which is signed: To T.J. Love and luck always, Beth, reveals Shorts gracious nature. Joe Barrett, a roomer at the Hodel residence cooperated as an informant. He hoped to discover the link between the killer, the crime scene, and the neighborhood. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. Harnisch, who was in touch with the Short family, received an email from one of her sisters who saw the pictures in a magazine article about Black Dahlia Avenger, and stated they were certainly not Short. As a result of wide-spread corruption in the LAPD, Hodel claimed, the murders were covered up and never solved. Lane had lived in Los Angeles at the time of the murder and was employed by Columbia Studios, a favorite hangout of Short's, as a maintenance man. Dumais was cleared of any involvement in the crime, although he continued to claim he killed Short each time he was arrested for various offenses, well into the 1950s. When Harnisch began researching his book, he had no interest in attempting to solve the murder. On January 15th, the date the body was discovered, he jammed a broomstick into the dirt on his front yard, spread out a large sheet of paper, and with a felt tip pen traced the progression of the shadowsa primitive sun dialand compared them to the shadows in the photos to garner a rough idea of who was at the scene and when. Police put Hodel under surveillance from February 18 to March 27, 1950, to ascertain whether he could be implicated in the murder. Redding of Santa Barbara City Colleges Justice Studies Department says that both Eatwell and Hodel have fallen into the trap of confirmation bias. While other Los Angeles murder victims had been brutalized and their bodies mutilated, Harnisch acknowledges there was something sui generis about what the killer had done to Elizabeth Short. This launched Hodels investigation. During the summer of 1997, his family was out of town, so he had some extra time to take a more thorough look at the contents of the box. According to Cray, Guthrie drew police attention because of some sexually explicit letters and tabloid clippings he sent to a Northern California woman who he was allegedly stalking. And Ill add one more element: noir. Wolfe hypothesizes that Wilson was present at Short's murder and claims a connection between Wilson and gangster Bugsy Siegel through some small-time gangsters Wilson supposedly associated with. There are two things I refuse to discuss: Donald Trump and The Black Dahlia.. At the time, the street was undeveloped because the war had stopped construction, and Short was found on an empty lot, but now at the location there is a beige stucco house with Italian cypresses shading the lawn. Over the course of their correspondence, De River began to believe that Connors did not exist and that Dillon had committed the murder himself. A few have intimated she was a hooker. According to Knowlton, Short was a sex worker and a procurer of children for a child trafficking ring. She wrote her mother and told friends she was pursuing an acting career, yet she never took an acting class or showed any interest in the movies. It is the coldest of cold cases, a case so old the detective in charge of the investigation wasnt born at the time of the homicide. He wanted to interview Short and her husband in an attempt to determine the identity of Barbara Lindgren, but they were dead. After fingering his father for the two murders, Hodel later claimed he was one of the Twentieth Centurys most prolific serial killers. Fallon returns to the subject at hand and asks Harnisch if he has a copy of the autopsy notes or knows the section of the brain where the lesion was identified. And the parts fit better.. After three drafts, engaging in countless online battles with people writing about the case whom he constantly fact-checks, and struggling to find a publisher, there are days, he says, when he wished he never heard of the case. After creating a roster of everyone named in the storiesdetectives, patrol officers, suspects, family members, witnesses, and reportershe created a list of people to interview. It was so refreshing to find someone who was sticking to the facts and the original documents, she says. It turns out that T.J.s wife wouldnt write to him, so Charlie got Short to write him and send him the photo., Short was working as a waitress in Massachusetts when she received the news of the crash. Then another book. "Her book was trash, and it wasn't even true," her sister told the . Dr. Bayley lived a block from where the corpse was found. . Everyone wants to fuck with it.. Yet another theory was that the murder may have been an attempt to frame Siegel by Jack Dragna, who wanted revenge for Siegel's attacks on Dragna's business interests since his arrival in the 1930s. The heinous nature of the crime drew widespread attention to the case. FBI profiler John Douglas said the violence perpetrated on Short's body suggests personal anger towards the victim. The question of why this case has fascinated so many for so long has intrigued Larry Harnisch and sent him on such an intensive and serpentine journey of research, interviews, and archival study that some consider him Los Angeles most knowledgeable Black Dahlia authority. Brian's Website New England has the Boston Strangler. Los Angeles mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was allegedly a suspect in the murder investigation of Short. A self-published book by a former LAPD Vice detective wrote in 1950 that an abortion doctors office was located in a building on West 6th. Shortly before police arrived, Fowler, who wrote a memoir, Reporters, told Harnisch that he had closed Shorts eyes and later helped load the bottom half of Shorts body into the coroners vehicle. Whats that? the child asked. 1951). Among authors, the case has resonated for decades. Harnisch pulls a dusty cardboard box out of his office, fishes out a Manila folder, removes a copy of the marriage certificate, and points to address3959 Norton Avenue. Thats the kind of thing Adrian West would have done. Also, Siegel was involved with Chicago Outfit starlet, and his on-off girlfriend Virginia Hill. Finally, he spent afternoons in the dim subbasement of the Los Angeles County Hall of Records, leafing through plat books where property deeds were recorded. The first thing we thought was that it was a mannequin, that someone was playing a trick on us because there was no blood, Fitzgerald told Harnisch. century. If George Hodel were alive, Kay wrote, he would file two counts of murder against him for the Dahlia and the Red Lipstick murders. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. In the surviving transcripts of microphone recordings, Hodel was heard making highly incriminating statements. Throughout the entire investigation, the reporters have talked to witnesses and published facts which were bound to hinder the investigation of the local department, the agent in charge of the FBIs Los Angeles office wrote to the director. Harnisch now had a connection between a witness to Virginia Shorts wedding and the crime scene. In his office, Harnisch points out a framed photo of Short, who was called Beth at the time, wearing a green beret, a matching top, and a string of pearls. After all these years, I still get about one call a week, says LAPD Detective Mitzi Roberts, who has been in charge of the case for a decade. At about 10 a.m., she was pushing her three-year-old daughter in a strollernot just any stroller, but a Taylor-Tot stroller, she was proud to point outto a repair shop to pick up her husbands shoes. Examiner reporters and detectives discovered that Elizabeth Shorts prints were on file because she had applied for a clerk job at Camp Cooke in California during World War II and had been arrested by Santa Barbara police for underage drinking. About 60 people confessed to the murder, mostly men but including a few women. The author, Steve Hodel, who fingered his father as the killer, wasnt the first writer to make this claim. Walter also disinherited his wife, who had remained at the house on South Norton Avenue, and their other daughter, Beatrice. Then we realized what the hell we had. The mannequins were used in the "house of mirrors" set for The Lady from Shanghai, a film Welles was making with his ex-wife Rita Hayworth around the time of the murder. She claimed to be a war widow, yet she never married her fiance. He was later exonerated of all charges, though. They dated for about a week and then she joined him on a sales trip as he headed up to L.A. Despite three witnesses testifying that they had seen Hodel having sex with Tamar, he was acquitted in December 1949. And Los Angeles Times columnist Larry Harnisch believes that Walter Bayley was the doctor who did it. Hodel draws sweeping conclusions, but when I began to investigate all I found were shadows, Hodel contends that Harnischs suspect, Walter Bayley, had a secret, but it wasnt murder. In August, 1945, five days before V-J Day, Gordon was killed in a crash and Short never overcame her grief. She drifted around the country during the next year-and-a-half until her death, never held another job, and often stayed briefly with friends and acquaintances. Virginia, had married soldier Adrian West in 1945 at the home of Dr. Walter Alonzo Bayley at 3959 S. Norton one block from where the bride's sister's corpse would be found years later. 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