I Don’t Care How The Black Dahlia Died

H. Allegra Lansing
16 min readJun 12, 2021

I’m way more interested in how Elizabeth Short lived

It’s the shocking story of a woman killed and mutilated, her body cut in two and left for all the world to see.

Discovered 74 years ago by a housewife walking with her daughter, the cold and lifeless severed body of Elizabeth Short was dumped in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The woman who found her initially thought she was looking at pieces of a department store mannequin. The body was bisected with surgical precision, drained of blood and disemboweled.

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