Harnisch pulls a dusty cardboard box out of his office, fishes out a Manila folder, removes a copy of the marriage certificate, and points to address3959 Norton Avenue. The other photograph remains unidentified. Thats kind of given the case new life.. Unlike other crimes, there is no statute of limitations on murder and a homicide investigation is never closed until it is solved. When Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez questioned D.A. I happened to be working on the rewrite desk of the Daily News that morning and drew the story when our police beat phoned in the first bulletin, Smith wrote in a column years later. She also claimed that nineteen other people, including many of her classmates, had molested her. On a recent sunny afternoon, Harnisch takes me on a stroll down Norton Avenue to illuminate some of his claims. Author James Ellroy endorsed Harnisch's theory in the 2001 film James Ellroy's Feast of Death. Bayley was 67 years old at the time of the murder, had no known history of violence or criminal activity of any kind, and is not known to have met Short, even though his daughter was a friend of Short's oldest sister. The horrific homicide has sparked such enduring fascination that the crime has been transformed into kitsch. On January 15, 1947 a woman walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of Norton St., in Liemert Park, Los Angeles caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a department store mannequin lying in the weeds on the side of the street; the top half separated from the lower half. 's files also indicate that Hansen had tried to seduce Short but was rebuffed. Stephen Kay proclaimed the case solved, but others have noted that he had formed this conclusion by treating Steve's many disputed assertions as established fact. Some speculated that Dillon's ex-wife Georgie Stevenson was related to former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, who contacted the Oklahoma governor on Dillon's behalf, although none of these relations have been verified. The neighborhood was all-white in 1947, but now is predominantly African American with some Japanese residents who have sculpted bonsai trees in their front yards. In the early 1990s, George Knowlton's daughter Janice began claiming that she had witnessed her father murdering Elizabeth Short, a claim she based largely on "recovered memories" that surfaced during therapy for depression after a hysterectomy. In 2003, he was identified by Los Angeles Times reporter Larry Harnisch as a possible suspect in the infamous Black Dahlia case. Later, Hodel says, Ellroy pissed backwards, recanted his earlier endorsement, and told interviewers, maybe I was fooled. I interviewed Ellroy recently for another story I was writing, and we chatted amiably for about twenty minutes. During this time his marriage dissolved, he moved to a small apartment, and he faced the depressing reality of spending holidays away from his wife and son. When a Dahlia enthusiast heard about Harnischs investigation, he sent him a box filled with photocopies of newspaper articles about the crime, a transcript of the inquest that contained most of the autopsy notes, a homemade documentary, a copy of Shorts grades from elementary school, and a dim photocopy of the marriage certificate of her oldest sister, Virginia Short. In 2003, Harnisch was sanguine about his book. Walter Bailey may refer to: Walter Bailey (lawyer), state prosecutor in South Carolina; . frwood2@comcast.net. As they discuss the case, they reveal antipodal personalities. Kay, who had worked with Hodel on some cases when he was a homicide detective, wrote, while emphasizing that he was not speaking for the D.As office, The most haunting murder mystery in Los Angeles County during the 20th, century has finally been solved in the 21st. Bayleys son was killed on January 13 and Short might have been killed on that exact date, Harnisch says, because she disappeared on January 9th and her body was found on January 15th. Fickling and Short spent some time in a hotel in Hollywood, but the romance fizzled. A Michigan death metal band is called The Black Dahlia Murder. He became mentally unbalanced and was mad because his son was killed in an auto accident 20 years before the murder, and Dr. Bayley killed the Black Dahlia in . After fingering his father for the two murders, Hodel later claimed he was one of the Twentieth Centurys most prolific serial killers. Some writers contended the original detective team was inept. An, Ten days after Shorts body was found, the killer mailed an envelope of Shorts belongings to the, Among authors, the case has resonated for decades. The question of why this case has fascinated so many for so long has intrigued Larry Harnisch and sent him on such an intensive and serpentine journey of research, interviews, and archival study that some consider him Los Angeles most knowledgeable Black Dahlia authority. They couldn't prove it now. The chunk of flesh that had been sliced from her thigh was later discovered to have been a rose tattoo. They couldnt prove it now., Later in the recording, however, he announces that he is probably being bugged, and Lopez speculates that Hodel was taunting investigators. The following acquaintances of Hodel were questioned and none were able to connect the suspect with murder: Fred Sexton, 1020 White Knoll Drive; Nita Moladero, 1617 North Normandy [Normandie]; Ellen Taylor 5121 Fountain Avenue; Finlay Thomas, 616 South Normandy [Normandie]; Mildred B. Colby, 4029 Vista Del Monte Street, Sherman Oaks, this witness was a girlfriend of Charles Smith, abortionist friend of Hodel, Turin Gilkey, 1025 North Wilcox; Irene Summerset, 1236 North Edgemont; Norman Beckett, 1025 North Wilcox; Ethel Kane, 1033 North Wilcox; Annette Chase, 1039 North Wilcox; Dorothy Royer, 1636 North Beverly Glenn. Examiner reporters were the most aggressive and their unorthodox and often unethical approach led them to uncover leads before the detectives. Mary Pacios who grew up near Short in Massachusetts and wrote Childhood Shadows, suggested that Orson Welles, who appeared to saw a woman in half during a magic trick, was the killer. The killer, Douglas surmised, had some connection to the neighborhood. But they dont take the next step. His daughter was friends with Elizabeth Short's sister but it isn't certain that he ever met Elizabeth. Hansen was also linked to three other suspects, each of whom was a medical doctor: Dr. Patrick S. O'Reilly, Dr. M. M. Schwartz, and Dr. Arthur McGinnis Faught. His research takes us to a deceased surgeon named Walter Bayley. , the date the body was discovered, he jammed a broomstick into the dirt on his front yard, spread out a large sheet of paper, and with a felt tip pen traced the progression of the shadowsa primitive sun dialand compared them to the shadows in the photos to garner a rough idea of who was at the scene and when. On January 15th. She told Harnisch that she was stunned that Bayley and Partikya used to pick up dinner to go, listen to classical music at their medical office, and eat dinner while watching surgery films. And the parts fit better.. If you read the book without delving into it too closely, I can see why you might buy into what he claims. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. De River and undercover LAPD officers met Dillon in Las Vegas for a couple of days and then proceeded to drive back to California. She said to a cop who also spent time there, They should call her the Black Dahlia. The cop is the one who gave this account to the newspapers. Redding of Santa Barbara City Colleges Justice Studies Department says that both Eatwell and Hodel have fallen into the trap of confirmation bias. Harnisch further speculates that after killing her, Bayley placed Shorts body a mere 45-second walk from the house where his estranged family lived, because he wanted to frighten and intimidate them. He rode toward her, to prevent her from wandering into a busy street, when he was hit by a truck. Hodels book contains numerous assertions about his father and the Dahlia case, some that are authenticated, some that are speculative; nonetheless, the book received widespread attention and immediately eclipsed Harnischs theory. After Wilson's death, Gilmore named Wilson as a suspect owing to his alleged acquaintance with Short. Knowlton, Janice, with Michael Newton (1995). The profiler, John Douglas, speculated that the killer was probably angry at some residents on Norton Avenue and intended to put the fear of God into that neighborhood. Harnisch recalled this when he learned that Bayley had adopted two girls and then had one biological son whom he doted on and whod been killed. Was this secret a murder? Thats the least I can do for them and for Elizabeth Short, someone who changed my life.. Black Dahlia Elizabeth Short Murder Suspect Dr. Walter Bayley Home House Near Body Discovery Los Angeles CA USA 2021. One of the first suspects was Walter Bayley. Wilson was a lifelong petty criminal and alcoholic who was interviewed by author John Gilmore while Gilmore was researching his book Severed. Hes a surgeon with mental problems who underwent a drastic personality shift. In one of Short's last letters home, her older sister Virginia claimed she had written that a movie director was going to give her a screen test. Although Id uncovered nothing significant, I found all this L.A. history fascinating.. She agreed to serve as the matron of honor at Shorts sisters wedding, she told Harnisch, because there wasnt anybody else. When he suggested that such a role indicated a close level of friendship, she was very dismissive and refused to elaborate. Dr Walter Bayley who knew Elizabeth's older sister, Virginia. "The things that she is saying are not consistent with the facts of the case. It may well be that, barring the dramatic appearance of a written confession, the Dahlia will remain the stuff of Angeleno myth.. He had almost completed his second draft, Ellroy was interested in writing the introduction and was going to set up him up with his agent. There have been countless bizarre unsolved murders in Los Angeles and most of them have been forgotten. Manley was the leading suspect at one time, and Harnisch interviewed a detective who investigated him. And when you run into coincidences in a homicide investigation, you want to go, Wait a minute. And thats what it made me say, Wait a minute., Rick Jackson, who spent a decade in LAPDs elite Robbery-Homicide Division and was the assistant officer in charge of the departments Cold Case Unit before he retired, is familiar with Harnischs theory. The deceased child's birthday was January 13; Short's body was discovered on January 15. [5], Donald Wolfe's 2005 book The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles names Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1945-1960, as a suspect in the murder. He also said the coincidences piqued his interest. She believes that the bisection of the body was part of the killer's signature and an acting out of the perpetrator's obsession. All the articles just say he was a cop. Harnisch perked up when he noticed that a witness to the ceremony listed an address that looked like Norton Avenue, but he wasnt sure because the certificate had been photocopied numerous times and was smudged and hard to read. After encountering these early erroneous accounts, he vowed that everything he wrote would be exact, backed by authenticated sources, and he ended up spending an inordinate amount of time, which stalled his own research and writing, challenging the accounts of other writers. His final task is to chronicle the last few months of Shorts life, and Harnisch has gone to extraordinary length to track down biographical details. [16] Popular accounts of the Black Dahlia case often portray Hansen as having connections to organized crime, but there is no evidence of this. At present the following suspects are discussed by various authors and experts: Bayley was a Los Angeles surgeon who lived one block south of the vacant lot in which Short's body was found, until he left his wife in October 1946. [27] She frequently alleged that she was sexually abused by a long list of dead movie stars and other notables, including Norman Chandler, Gene Autry (whose name she continually misspelled as Autrey), Arthur Freed, and Walt Disney. . There is Black Dahlia lingerie, Black Dahlia perfume, Black Dahlia T-shirts, and a number of other schlocky items. had bugged Hodels home and he was recorded saying, Supposin I did kill the Black Dahlia. He was later exonerated of all charges, though. During his reporting for the fiftieth anniversary story he interviewed legendary FBI profiler John Douglas. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. The family has gone through so much and all writers have ever done is rip them off. I am too busy working on active cases." The real killer, he believed, only killed once. Short was face up, her gray-blue eyes were open, and she had been posed with elbows bent at right angles, her hands over her head, and her legs were spread with her knees straight. His research began when he was a copy editor at the, Harnisch did not grow up in Los Angeles with iterative reminders of the Dahlia case. Now I find out he had some kind of secret and lived in constant fear of being exposed. Detectives were also inundated with dozens of false confessions during the first few months after the murder and they interviewed a steady stream of menand a few womenwho claimed to be the killer. Jack Webb, who created and starred in Dragnet, wrote The Badge eleven years after the murder, one of the first books that chronicled the crime. Two microphones were placed in this suspect's home (see the log and recordings made over approximately three weeks time which tend to prove his innocence. In 2003, Harnisch was sanguine about his book. About a dozen patrol officers, sergeants, command officers, and detectives descended upon the scene, in addition to numerous reporters and photographers. Testimony during the trial revealed that she had previously accused her father of killing Short. There was nothing then in the way of support groupsThe family has put so much time into trying to get away from ittrying to put it behind us.. The prime suspect is a creepy doctor obsessed with a surrealist artist who is a suspect in several other murders. After Black Dahlia Avenger was released, the book attracted so much attention, the LAPD brass allowed Hodel to present his theory to the Cold Case Unit. Note that Short's autopsy by Dr. Frederick Newbarr found no evidence of pregnancy: "The uterus is small, and no pregnancy is apparent." As City Editor Jimmy Richardson sat in a swivel chair beside him, Sutton called Shorts mother, Phoebe, and said that her daughter won a beauty contest in Southern California. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. That is why Ive been so miserable. He returned to Long Beach, and she spent the next few months crashing at the apartments of acquaintances, telling guys she met sob stories she was having trouble cashing checks or she was a war widow whose baby had died in order to cadge money for meals. The Los Angeles Times wrote in 1991: Los Angeles Police Detective John P. St. John, one of the investigators who had been assigned to the case, said he has talked to Knowlton and does not believe there is a connection between the Black Dahlia murder and her father. Harnisch doesnt have the smoking gun, but his theory definitely has to be included in the most likely theories.. An interview with Bayleys former secretary was of particular interest. [8] The incident led to a 1949 grand jury investigation of police handling of the Black Dahlia case and some other unsolved murders. Although the vast majority of suspects in the case were male, authorities did not rule out the possibility of a female killer. We walk one more block to the home where Bayleys estranged family lived at the time, a single story home with gravel instead of a front lawn, edged with purple and yellow lantana, and a broad front porch. Many conspiracy theories have been advanced, but none have been found to be completely persuasive by experts, and some are not taken seriously at all. Thats a lot less glamorous.. Others wrote that the newspapers gave Short the sobriquet. I sat there and listened to the poor, dear mother telling him about her school-day triumphs. He is grateful he began his research decades ago, long before the case generated renewed interest in the Twenty-First Century, because many of those he interviewed are now dead. The address book belonged to Hansen, but he had never used it; Short had been using it as her own. Nothing seemed significant, so he forgot about it. The truth is, Harnisch says, she was just a young woman traumatized by the death of her fiance, a lost soul homeless, grieving, and adrift. [6] In a complicated scenario involving multiple perpetrators, Wolfe claims that Chandler impregnated Short while she was working as a call girl for the notorious Hollywood "madam" Brenda Allen, which led to her murder at the hands of gangster Bugsy Siegel. Ellroy read Black Dahlia Avenger, was impressed by Hodels findings, and wrote an introduction to a subsequent edition of the book. Jack Anderson Wilson was supposedly interviewed in the early 80's. "We have a lot of people offering up their fathers and various relatives as the Black Dahlia killer," said St. John, better known as Jigsaw John. Harnisch found the books for the 3900 block of South Norton Avenue and he worked his way through them until he reached the 1940s. One of the first people to confess to the murder was a WAC sergeant stationed in San Diego. Short called Hansen from San Diego on January 8, making him one of the last people known to have spoken to her. Based on these recovered memories, Knowlton published Daddy Was The Black Dahlia Killer with veteran crime writer Michael Newton in 1995. Among authors, the case has resonated for decades. According to Cray, Guthrie drew police attention because of some sexually explicit letters and tabloid clippings he sent to a Northern California woman who he was allegedly stalking. The scenes containing the set were deleted from the film by Harry Cohn. Fowler claimed there were no officers to prevent reporters and photographers from tromping through the crime scene and interfering with the evidence. [citation needed], Knowlton became somewhat infamous within online Black Dahlia discussion communities for her insistence that the LAPD was engaged in a conspiracy to discredit her story in order to conceal their knowledge of George Knowlton's involvement. So, the pathology lines up., The probate records revealed, Harnisch says, even more significant clues. Police soon discovered that Connors did indeed exist; his real name was Artie Lane. The mother didnt answer. As a result, this is a story that fades to conjecture. In his office, Harnisch points out a framed photo of Short, who was called Beth at the time, wearing a green beret, a matching top, and a string of pearls. Throughout the entire investigation, the reporters have talked to witnesses and published facts which were bound to hinder the investigation of the local department, the agent in charge of the FBIs Los Angeles office wrote to the director. He was also a member of the military. Everyone wants this to be a noir morality play, Harnisch says. NY, Checkmark Books, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Black Dahlia Backlash: Family members take Hodels Avenger to task, "Smashwords I Killed The Black Dahlia (The Telephone) - A book by Anthony Johnson - page 38", "Heaven Is Here! The D.A. He passed along the tip to a Times assistant city editor, expecting him to assign the story to a reporter. This interview and the, When he finally tracked down Barbara Lindgren, his initial investigation into Bayley was almost complete. Welles applied for his passport on January 24, 1947, the same day the killer mailed a packet to Los Angeles newspapers. [5], Among Harnisch's behavioral/psychological evidence: Bayley's neurodegenerative condition was known to produce violent behavior in otherwise passive individuals; his surgical specializations included mastectomies, hysterectomies, and the surgical removal of fat; in conversation with Bayley's former receptionist, Harnisch discovered that he and his mistress would, at dinnertime, watch movies of surgeries and autopsies. While most decades-old murders slip into obscurity, the Black Dahlia case attracts so much attention that the LAPD has continued to assign the homicide to a specific detective since the lead investigator retired in 1960. He worked at the Tuskegee Institute, and practiced . Harnisch has studied the case off and on for twenty-four years. An eerie grin was slashed along the edges of her mouth. As quoted in Newton, 2009, p. 46. Killed her. In secret testimony, Detective Harry Hansen, one of the original investigators, told the 1949 Los Angeles County grand jury that in his opinion the killer was a "top medical man" and "a fine surgeon." About a month later, while he was talking to his wife during a break from his copy editing duties, she told him he had received a letter from the state. Harnisch did not grow up in Los Angeles with iterative reminders of the Dahlia case. The drastic personality shift at the end of Bayleys life wasnt anything I could have ever dreamed of happening, she told him. Other letters from senders who claimed to be the killer were delivered to the LAPD and the papers, but they were never authenticated. He and his wife knew the Bayley family well and Harnisch surmises that when Elizabeth Short, who had been couch surfing and virtually homeless for the past year, had been dropped off at the Biltmore Hotel, after a sojourn in San Diego, with no place to stay and little money, she might have recalled some advice from West or her sister. Ten days after Shorts body was found, the killer mailed an envelope of Shorts belongings to the Examiner. Harnisch was devastated. He asked her to open it up and tell him the name of the street the witness, Barbara Lindgren, listed. Using letters clipped from a page of movie ads, he addressed the envelope. When he asked her about Elizabeth Short, she became wary. On his second draft he changed the point of view to first person, but he later realized the writing sounded too much like a parody of noir. . 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