The Black Dahlia Research Paper

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Elizabeth Short also known famously as “the black dahlia” is one of the most gruesome and longest unsolved cold cases in United States Criminal History. Her murder took place on January 15th, 1947; which on that date her body was found in a vacant lot by a mother while walking with her child, which in fact at first she had mistaken Mrs. Short for a warehouse mannequin. This location of the body was discovered in the city of Los Angeles; it was determined that her cause of death was caused by ruled as one due to all the injuries she obtained from all over her body but ones mostly to the head and the joker like smile that was given to her from ear to ear.
Because of these injuries Mrs. Short hemorrhaged so severely that it killed her instantaneously,

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