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Mystery of the Black Dahlia Murder of Elizabeth Short

Scott Tracy


    • Apr 27, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 36m AVG DURATION
    • 14 EPISODES


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    EPISODE 12: Alone Women

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022


    Trelstad, Mondragon, Asher and Norton were significantly intoxicated late at night and were approached because they appeared to be easy prey. Elevated alcohol levels are critical factors in the Jeanne French and Evelyn Winters murders. Being sober didn't save Elizabeth Short or Louise Springer or Gladys Kern. Alcohol plays no role in those deaths and to me that is indicative of a very different predator.

    EPISODE 14: The Last Suspect & Conclusion

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020


    Elizabeth had fantasies of a husband to marry. The Black Dahlia Avenger had fantasies of a victim to torture.

    EPISODE 1: Jan 15th 1947

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2019


    I explore the death of Elizabeth Short with a mindful eye on the noir culture of the Los Angeles

    EPISODE 2: Jan 16th 1947

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019


    The Examiner has written the Headline to remember. The Los Angeles Times wrote a headline to forget.

    EPISODE 3: Jan 17th

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019


    Within hours the FBI identifies Elizabeth Short as the victim based on her arrest for underaged drinking at the bar of the El Paseo Restaurant.  This arrest photo is the one commonly used on book covers and in magazines.

    EPISODE 4: Jan 19th

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019


    The headlines claim a "Werewolf" stalks the city, but this the Black Dahlia is best compared to the bisected murder committed by the Trunk Murderess a decade previously.

    EPISODE 5: Jan 22nd

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019


    The search for “Red” is over.  Robert Manley is under arrest and co-operating with the Los Angeles Police.

    EPISODE 6: Jan 23

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019


    "It sounds like a cheap detective thriller," said Capt. Jack Donohoe of the homicide squad, "but we finally were forced to turn to the theory that a woman was at the bottom of it." (Donohoe) pointed to other mutilation murders In which women In jealous rages hacked their girl friends to death.

    EPISODE 7: Jan 24th

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019


    An unknown man threatened the life of Sultry Toni Smith, who now lives in the Hollywood apartment once shared by Miss Short. The brunette beauty, her lips trembling with fear, said she answered the telephone in Apartment 501 last night to hear a strange man's gruff voice say: 'Well Toni. you are next.”

    EPISODE 8: Jan 25th & 26th

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019


    This is a significant topic that has been ignored by other researchers.

    EPISODE 9: Jan 29th

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019 35:02


    The Black Dahlia Avenger letter to the LAPD has fingerprints that are not on file. Confessors make headlines. One More Thing: The Georgette Bauerdorf murder is discussed. Fingerprint evidence has no match in this case either.

    EPISODE 10: Feb 10th

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019


    When I compare the torture murder of Elizabeth Short to the mutilation murder of Jeanne French there are many differences. As I look at the crime, the police should have come closer to catching the murderer.

    EPISODE 11: April & May

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019


    More lone women victims, more confessions but no more closer to finding the Black Dahlia Avenger

    EPISODE 13: Grand Jury Suspects

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019 37:05


    The false imprisonment of Leslie Dillon by Dr. J. Paul DeRiver and the Gangster Squad embarrassed the already tarnished LAPD

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