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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

More than 77 years after the gruesome murder of Elizabeth Short rocked Los Angeles and grabbed national headlines, questions remain about who attacked the aspiring actress immortalized as "Black ...

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 ...