On January 15, 1947, young mother Betty Bersinger, out for a walk in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park, made a chilling discovery.

(Books like Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia have drawn numerous comparisons between the corpse’s state and ...

Steve, whose 2003 book Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story became a bestseller, became consumed by the case. Hodel was rumored to have dated Short and he became a prime suspect after he was ...

Short remained in L.A. until her murder, apart from a brief stint where she fled to San Diego out of fear of an ex-boyfriend, according to the book Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius Murder by Steve Hodel ...