A new book emphasizes the life, rather than the death, of Elizabeth Short, whose 1947 murder reflected a nation on edge.

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Before her murder made her a true-crime obsession, Elizabeth Short was a real person. A new book tries to separate truth from myth in the infamous case.

'Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood' tells the definitive story of Elizabeth Short's macabre murder — and who she really was INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO/Getty Solving one ...

Will we ever know who killed Elizabeth Short — a.k.a. the Black Dahlia? Since the case went cold 78 years ago, it seems… pretty unlikely. But here’s what we do know about this bizarre case. Who is the ...

At 21, wanderlust — that aching desire to escape to somewhere else — took hold of Elizabeth Short. Medford may have been her home, but Los Angeles was salvation, a bustling city the young woman ...

It’s been over 70 years since Hollywood’s most infamous unsolved murder took place. In the early hours of Jan. 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered and then left on the side of ...

Elizabeth Short’s body was found cut in half and left on a road in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 1947 As an investigation unfolded, the media dubbed Short the "Black Dahlia" Nobody has been charged with ...

According to his new book, Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood, Elizabeth Short was not an aspiring actress or promiscuous woman lurking in Hollywood's shadows — but ...