Black Dahlia corpse found here (Los Angeles, California)

USA / California / View Park-Windsor Hills / Los Angeles, California
 murder site, interesting place
This is where the body was found, as described in the Coroner's report, 546 feet south of Coliseum Street and 54 feet from the curbside fire plug (still there). Several websites give wrong addresses, usually south of 39th Street and on the wrong side of the street. In 1947 this quarter mile stretch of Norton was just raw land, no houses and no witnesses.

Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) has been portrayed many ways in the six decades since her body was dumped in two pieces on an empty lot in Los Angeles: Manipulative playgirl. Aspiring starlet. Troubled soul. Above all, time has immortalized Elizabeth Short as the pin-up girl of Los Angeles Noir. The Black Dahlia. Fascination with her life, and especially her death — her gruesome, violent, unsolved murder — continues to this day.

www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/dahlia/in...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia
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Coordinates:   34°0'59"N   118°19'58"W

Comments

  • Edited content: If people want fanatical detail of a murder, they can search the web. Keep it simple.
  • Could someone please remove the phrase "manipulative playgirl" from the description above? Besides verging on the lurid, it's unsubstantiated. Thanks.
  • It doesn't say she was one. Only that she has been portrayed as one. Which she was, by the newspapers at the time and several films made since then.
  • The only way the city could prevent another body from being dumped there was to add a "No Parking" sign. If they can't park there, they can't dump a body there. What else could they do?
  • You have the address wrong too. It's definitely in the 3700 block of S Norton Ave, and north of Coliseum Street. The landmarks visible in the original crime scene photos confirm it.
  • More evidence that she was than wasn't. Letters, interviews from those who knew her well, and those who knew her very briefly, etc.
  • You need to look at the photos again. In one of the photos, it clearly has the number 3825 stenciled on the curb.
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