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The body of this 22-year-old aspiring actress was found mutilated on January 15, 1947 in Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California (USA). To this day it is not known who killed her, despite the fact that dozens of people claimed responsibility for the crime to date one of the most relevant unsolved murders in the United States.
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Elizabeth Short was born in Boston on 1924
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in 1930, in the middle of the Great Depression
his father left home and simulated a suicide, being left solely in charge of his mother in medford -
Years later, upon the arrival of his father after the alleged suicide, he had the opportunity to go live with his father in HOLLYWOOD
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She moved to Santa Barbara, where she was arrested on September 23, 1943.
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In Florida, she met Major Matthew M. Gordon Jr., of the air command, with whom she began a relationship and even planned to marry, but he died in a plane crash in 1945 before that happened, points out the New York Daily News.
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in 1946 Elizabeth returned to California
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January 15, 1947 Elizabeth was found dead on a vacant Los Angeles site by Betty Bersinger, a resident of the area. The woman was walking with her 3-year-old daughter at around 10 a.m. when she saw something in the brush, which appeared to be a broken mannequin.
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On January 23, 1947, the killer called the editor of the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper, expressing concern that news of the murder was not being closely followed. He then offered to send items belonging to Short to the publisher.
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On January 25, Short's bag and shoe were found in a garbage can a short distance off Norton Avenue
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For 15 years, he has dedicated himself to gathering all possible clues so that there is no doubt that the man who murdered Elizabeth Short was George Hodel.
