Studio headshot portrait of Elizabeth Short. It’s been over 70 years since Hollywood’s most infamous unsolved murder took place. In the early hours of Jan. 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was ...

Disclaimer: This article contains mention of death, violence, and gore. Readers’ discretion is advised. The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short remains one of the most notorious unsolved killings to date.

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Emmy-nominated producer Eli Frankel connects the dots between the infamous cold case and another murder miles away Carly Tagen-Dye is the ...

Elizabeth Short's mutilated body was found on the sidewalk in a Los Angeles neighborhood in 1947 Liza Esquibias is a Writer-Reporter on the TV team at PEOPLE. She was previously an Editorial Intern ...

In 1947 Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia, was found dead in a vacant lot in LA, her body surgically bisected at the waist and horribly mutilated. For almost 60 years, the Black Dahlia case has been ...

At the Long Beach drugstore counter where she liked to linger, a jobless young woman named Elizabeth Short acquired the playful nickname that would fuel her long, macabre afterlife. She dyed her hair ...

Though some accounts of Black Dahlia murder victim Elizabeth Short painted her as an aspiring actress, she had no acting jobs during her short life. But the 1947 discovery of her gruesomely posed ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. On January 15, 1947, an aspiring 22-year-old actress named Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los ...

It has been nearly 30 years since reporter Agness “Aggie” Underwood passed away. I regret never having met her, because we would have had a lot in common. According to one of her grandsons, Aggie was ...

On Jan. 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short’s body was found cut in half and left in an abandoned lot in Los Angeles It’s been over 70 ...

Emmy-nominated producer Eli Frankel connects the dots between the infamous cold case and another murder miles away A new book reveals never-before-shared details about the infamous Black Dahlia murder ...

It’s been over 70 years since Hollywood’s most infamous unsolved murder took place. In the early hours of Jan. 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered and then left on the side of ...