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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. On January 15, 1947, an aspiring 22-year-old actress ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Piu Eatwell suggested a theory for who killed the Black Dahlia decades after her horrific death, there was one person who agreed with her: the son of a police officer who worked the case.

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.

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 ...

Jan. 9 (UPI) --On this day in history: In 1768, Philip Astley, regarded as the "father of the modern circus," staged the first event in an open field at what is now the Waterloo area of London. In ...

As Brian De Palma’s “The Black Dahlia” heads for theaters this spring and “60 Minutes” unveils its own investigation into the still-unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, aka The Black Dahlia, ...

Former LAPD Detective Steve Hodel stands with his doctor father, George. The surgeon's family now believes without any doubt that he was the killer of Elizabeth Short (inset), whose body was bisected ...