Aftermath
Over fifty people have confessed to killing the Black Dahlia. All of them have been checked out by the LAPD, and they concluded that none were guilty. Even now, people have all kinds of theories as to what happened and who did it. There's more than one person who feels their father did it. A childhood friend believes Orson Welles did her in, and another writer basically wrote a novel which has somehow become the authoritative text on the subject. One blames a doctor with a tangential relationship to Beth's sister. A curious website hashes it all out with some arcane numerology. James Ellroy wrote a mystery based on the case called The Black Dahlia, which is being made into a film. Most of these theories make interesting reads, though they tell you more about the writer than about Elizabeth Short herself. She gets a bit lost in the shuffle. But there's no denying that she's caught the imagination of thousands over the years. Would she have felt that her long and painful death was worth immortalization? It's doubtful. But that's why people come to LA, right? So you never know.
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