Black Dahlia Murders

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Elizabeth Short also know a "The Black Dahlia" was brutally murdered in Los Angeles in 1947. She was severely mutilated. Her killer has never been found ,which makes her case the oldest unsolved cases in L.A and one of the most famous.Many homicide investigators would say that this was one of the most brutal murders. Shorts body was found cut in two by a local female resident on January 15, 1947, in a vacant lot near Leimert Park, on the 3800 block of L.A.'s South Norton Avenue , she was beaten and her killer cut her mouth all the way up to her ears , he/she had broken her nose , he/she had cut her body in many different places …show more content…
Like the Andrew and Abby Borden case Lizzie Borden. “ Andrew and Abby were parents to Lizzie Borden and on August 4, 1892 they were both found brutally murdered in their home.” Andrew and Abby Borden were father and mother to Lizzie borden. On August 4, 1892 Andrew and Abby were both found brutally murdered in their home. Lizzie, Addy and the maid were left at home all day when Andrew was at work. Lizzie came into the living room where her father laid down to sleep after he got home from work, and found him dead on the sofa. He had suffered severe blunt force trauma to the head. upstairs Lizzie found her stepmother in worse conditions then her father, with her body laying on the ground next to her bed. Later it was found the Abbey was murdered almost an hour before Andrew. Many investigators had suspicions the Lizzie to be the killer of her parents, after she had tried to purchase poison on august 3. even more suspicion fell on her when the found that Lizzie had burnt her dress in the stove in the home. Yes they did also suspect Bridget Sullivan and Lizzie's uncle John. Lizzie was arrested and tried for the murders but was acquitted due to circumstantial evidence in June of 1893. “Lizzie went with some friends to a beach house on Buzzards Bay on the Massachusetts coast. While there, she tried to buy prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) from a pharmacy, claiming that she wanted to use it to kill bugs that had infested a fur

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