{"id":21610,"date":"2019-02-05T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21610"},"modified":"2019-02-02T19:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T23:35:23","slug":"10-shocking-facts-about-the-black-dahlia-hollywoods-most-famous-unsolved-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21610","title":{"rendered":"10 Shocking Facts About The Black Dahlia, Hollywood\u2019s Most Famous Unsolved Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kristin Hunt and Mental Floss present 10 Shocking Facts About The Black Dahlia, Hollywood\u2019s Most Famous Unsolved Murder<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are the three I found most disturbing…<\/span><\/p>\n

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THERE WAS NO BLOOD FOUND AT THE SCENE.<\/strong>
\nThe naked body Bersinger discovered was in horrifying condition. In addition to being cut completely in half at the waist, and having her intestines removed, Short’s mouth had been slashed from ear-to-ear, giving her face a ghastly, semi-smiling appearance known as a Glasgow Smile. Her body had also been washed clean before it was left to be found. Despite the severe mutilation, there was no blood at the scene, leading police to conclude that the young woman had been murdered somewhere else, drained of blood, then cleaned before the killer dumped her body.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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SOME LINKED THE CASE TO THE CLEVELAND TORSO MURDERS.<\/strong>
\nWhen Short\u2019s death became national news, police officers in Cleveland felt an awful sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. Between 1934 and 1938, a serial killer had terrorized their city, claiming 12 victims\u2014all of whom were grotesquely dismembered. Some theorized that the Ohio serial killer and Short’s murderer could be the same person, especially since\u2014like Short’s killer\u2014the perpetrator of what came to be known as the Cleveland Torso Murders was never caught.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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GEORGE HODEL IS ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS SUSPECTS.<\/strong>
\nOne of those names is George Hodel, a physician who ran a venereal disease clinic in Los Angeles in the 1940s. According to The Guardian, Hodel was on a list of six primary suspects in the Black Dahlia case, and the LAPD even bugged his home during the investigation. But Hodel\u2014who died in 1999\u2014gained more recent notoriety when his son, Steve Hodel, accused him of killing Short in the 2003 bestselling book Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story.<\/p>\n

Steve claims his father\u2019s handwriting matches strange letters the police received, supposedly from the killer. He also uncovered photos of a woman who resembles Short in his father\u2019s personal photo album, and believes Hodel\u2019s medical background would explain the precise, clinical cuts on the body. But some have discounted Steve\u2019s claims since he started linking his father to other infamous unsolved murders, including the Zodiac killings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kristin Hunt and Mental Floss present 10 Shocking Facts About The Black Dahlia, Hollywood\u2019s Most Famous Unsolved Murder.\u00a0 Here are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,72,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-history","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21611,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610\/revisions\/21611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}