The Black Dahlia and The Blue Dahlia

Scott Tracy

Mystery of the Black Dahlia Murder of Elizabeth Short

  1. 04/27/2022

    Episode #12 Lone Women

    Trelstad, Mondragon, Asher and Norton were significantly intoxicated late at night and were approached because they appeared to be easy prey. Elevated alcohol levels are critical factors in the Jeanne French and Evelyn Winters murders. Being sober didn’t save Elizabeth Short or Louise Springer or Gladys Kern. Alcohol plays no role in those deaths and to me that is indicative of a very different predator.

  2. Episode 14: Conclusions

    04/01/2020

    Episode 14: Conclusions

    Elizabeth had fantasies of a husband to marry. The Black Dahlia Avenger had fantasies of a victim to torture.

  3. Episode #1 Jan 15th 1947

    05/30/2019

    Episode #1 Jan 15th 1947

    I explore the death of Elizabeth Short with a mindful eye on the noir culture of the Los Angeles

  4. EPISODE 2: Jan 16th 1947

    05/29/2019

    EPISODE 2: Jan 16th 1947

    The Examiner has written the Headline to remember. The Los Angeles Times wrote a headline to forget.

  5. EPISODE 3: Jan 17th

    05/29/2019

    EPISODE 3: Jan 17th

    Within hours the FBI identifies Elizabeth Short as the victim based on her arrest for underaged drinking at the bar of the El Paseo Restaurant.  This arrest photo is the one commonly used on book covers and in magazines.

  6. Episode #4 Jan 19th 1947

    05/29/2019

    Episode #4 Jan 19th 1947

    The headlines claim a "Werewolf" stalks the city, but this the Black Dahlia is best compared to the bisected murder committed by the Trunk Murderess a decade previously.

  7. EPISODE 5: Jan 22nd

    05/29/2019

    EPISODE 5: Jan 22nd

    The search for “Red” is over.  Robert Manley is under arrest and co-operating with the Los Angeles Police.

  8. EPISODE 6: Jan 23

    05/29/2019

    EPISODE 6: Jan 23

    "It sounds like a cheap detective thriller," said Capt. Jack Donohoe of the homicide squad, "but we finally were forced to turn to the theory that a woman was at the bottom of it." (Donohoe) pointed to other mutilation murders In which women In jealous rages hacked their girl friends to death.

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