The Black Dahlia: Unsolved and Staged

Los Angeles 1947. A woman's body was found in a vacant lot, severed in half

with surgical precision. Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, became America's

most haunting unsolved murder. Here's what most people get wrong. Elizabeth wasn't

called the Black Dahlia because of how she died. She earned that nickname while alive,

wearing black clothing and dahlia flowers in her hair at a local drugstore. The press sensationalized

it after her death. The killer drained her body completely of blood, performed a Glasgow

smile from ear to ear, and posed her like a mannequin. No blood was found

at the scene, meaning she was murdered elsewhere and carefully displayed. The level of precision