...Elizabeth was found murdered in Los Angeles on January 15th, 1947. She was coming to Los Angeles to produce her dream as becoming a professional actress. The Black Dahlia is a woman named Elizabeth Short. She got the name Black Dahlia because she produced a movie called the Blue Dahlia. They gave her that name when she got murdered at the park. Background: Black Dahlia is still a mystery because we still haven't found the murderer that killed Elizabeth Short. (Black Dahlia murder case hits 68 years unsolved 2015) No one knows what Elizabeth has actually been through. It is very sad that someone out of their right mind wanted to murder someone. Elizabeth Short… also known as (Black Dahlia) she wanted to be a professional actress, she...
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...The black dahlia seems to be the most perplexing case in the history of the United States. Many factors of the crime are unknown and the case remains unsolved. On the morning of January 15, 1947, the body of a young woman was discovered, sliced in half and completely naked. This gruesome scene was discovered by a mother who was taking her child for a walk in Los Angeles, California. The reporting party noted that the body was posed in such a way that it appeared to be a mannequin. Blood was absent on the scene, indicating the murder took place elsewhere (“The Black Dahlia”). The young woman was later identified as Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress from Massachusetts. Short had moved to Vallejo, California in the early months of 1943 in order...
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...The purpose of crime scene investigation is to help establish what happened (crime scene reconstruction) and to identify the responsible person. This is done by carefully documenting the conditions at a crime scene and recognizing all relevant physical evidence. The ability to recognize and properly collect physical evidence is oftentimes critical to both solving and prosecuting violent crimes. It is no exaggeration to say that in the majority of cases, the law enforcement officer who protects and searches a crime scene plays a critical role in determining whether physical evidence will be used in solving or prosecuting violent crimes. Documenting crime scene conditions can include immediately recording transient details such as lighting (on/off), drapes (open/closed), weather, or furniture moved by medical teams. Certain evidence such as shoeprints or gunshot residue is fragile and if not collected immediately can easily be destroyed or lost. The scope of the investigation also extends to considerations of arguments which might be generated in this case (suicide/self-defense) and documenting conditions which would support or refute these arguments. In addition, it is important to be able to recognize what should be present at a scene but is not (victim's vehicle/wallet) and objects which appear to be out of place (ski mask) and might have been left by the assailant. It is also important to determine the full extent of a crime scene. A crime scene is not merely the immediate area...
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...MDP Paper: Black Dahlia Have you ever heard of The Black Dahlia? The story behind Black Dahlia is confusing, which is why many people don’t have a good understanding of it. This paper talks about how the early life of Black Dahlia, how she died, and the possible murderers. Elizabeth Short or also known as The Black Dahlia July 29, 1924, in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was the third child out of five, born into Cleo and Phoebo. When Elizabeth was only six years old her father abandoned the family. In Elizabeth sophomore year of high school she dropped out and started working. At the young age of 16 Elizabeth was traveling around America, picking up jobs such as a waitress and working in food service. Elizabeth was also known for dating different men. Black Dahlia body was found at Leimert Park at January 15, 1947. ELizabeth body was found cut into two pieces with blood drained out of her and scratch marks found all over. Black Dahlia was missing a small patch of skin, which was later found out the murderer cut of her flower tattoo and put it inside her body. Along with missing patches of skin and bruising Elizabeth had a gash on her breast and on her mouth shaped up into a smile. “Elizabeth Short was no doubt...
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... JonBenet Ramsey was a very beautiful pageant girl who died December 25,1996. Her case was never solved and it has been twenty years. The belief of this case has been unsolved for multiple reasons.According to deep research she found in the wine cellar of the family house taped up with a fractured skull. They found a suppose it ransom note,but they couldn’t find any DNA on the note.Also in that ransom note they say it's similar to the mother’s handwriting in the note and the sharpie came from the house. They found the murder weapon to be a flashlight and she was battered with it. As well as seeing the evidence lead up to no clues on her murder,but they found the range of how she was hit and they believed it was a young child. Also in the intense they couldn’t find any true evidence if it was true. Her brother was most under investigation, because he had a pure hate it for his sister. They had to investigate 140 people who could be the actually suspect in the crime. The case took so long they had to move the case to the FBI,because the family thought the police wasn’t working hard enough. Her brother had a complex issues with himself and he wanted he sister gone. The evidence found couldn’t define it was him or not they felt a hunch that could have been him that night. As well her brother has shown abuse towards her before,he took a golf club a smacked her in the face with it. The most person sad about her death was her mother,but she wouldn’t say anything to the police...
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...a rainy morning and a warm fog settled around her and she felt comfortable walking to school. She sat down at her desk and grabbed a piece of paper she wrote her name in scriptLucy then wrote the date August 7, 1888. This would be a date she would never forget. Ding Ding Ding! Lucy jumped out of her desk and saw her friend best friend Brit. Brit was a tall slender girl with black wavy hair that was always up in a ponytail. She always wore a little makeup on her olive colored skin. Her radiant smile would brighten Lucy’s day. Brit ran to Lucy and gave her a big hug like she hadn’t seen grace...
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...The case in this chapter is about a missing little girl who, for the sake of privacy, is given the false name Rosemarie Lynn Gilley. The forensic anthropologist on the case, H. Gill-King, started the chapter off by describing a "skull-to-photo superimposition." (Video superimposition technique). The process by which an image of the deceased individual's skull has an image of the suspected deceased subject superimposed over it to look for similarities and differences in facial features. For this practice to be used, the image of the child from when they were alive cannot be more than six months old from the time that they disappeared. This is protocol for cases involving deceased children as their facial features go through incredibly speedy changes. From the superimposed images, Gill-King described certain facial features of the missing girl as following" the outlines of the skull like an artist's tracing." He mentions several skeletal attributes such as the auditory meatus, nasal bridge, and maxilla in relation to their similar (identical?) positions on the girls fleshy face. He also observes the dental details from both images and further proves that the images are indeed from the same individual. One such dental detail being the 90˚ rotation of the left maxillary incisor which aligned perfectly in the superimposed images. For this case, two triangles were programmed into/on both of the images to further ensure that they were the same individual. "These triangles were defined...
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...The day was January 15, 1949 and I was the private detective on scene. I wasn’t hired but I find these murders entertaining. At first there were no suspects. My job was hard since there wasn’t anything like this before. I tried to link it to the Cleveland Torso Murders but I tossed that idea out since there were differences and the distance between them. I decided to take my investigation to the next level. Elizabeth Short was a call girl. She must have been on her way to a call when she was murdered. I hired a call girl to come to my house and once she was there I explained my plan. I was going to have her trace the last call that Ms. Short recieved and I was going to walk the same path dressed as a female to the call. If the murderer is...
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...Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia, was found dead January 15th in 1947. “At the age of 22, Short was brutally murdered in Los Angeles, her body cut in half and severely mutilated. Her body was found, nude and posed, by a local female resident…” (Biography.com). Elizabeth Short had been taken advantage of. Her face had been slashed from the corners of her mouth to her ears. Short was forced to smile a “Glasgow smile.” The lower half of her dismembered body was found approximately one foot away from her upper half. The intestines were tucked neatly underneath her buttocks. “The dead woman had been posed with her arms above her head and her face and breasts had been slashed. Rope burns marked her ankles and her legs were spread-eagle with the...
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...Elizabeth Short always aspired to become a famous actress. As she turned 19 she moved in with her father who was living in California to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Elizabeth Short was given the nickname "Black Dahlia" because she almost always dressed completely in black and her hair was jet black, her skin was very pale, and her nail polish and lipstick were very red.She moved with her father at age 19 but then in 1943 she left her father over an argument,and went to live in California working as a post exchanger. “Poor Betty... her problem wasn't too many enimies; it was too many friends.”-James Ellory said. At 1947 her body was found in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles,CA. A mother called Betty Bersinger with her daughter were walking back home ,betty’s attention was caught when she saw what she thought was a manquin on the grass,but when she came closer to the body she realized its was not manquin but a young girl. “The body was just a few feet from the sidewalk and posed in the grass in such a way that the woman reportedly thought it was a mannequin at first,” – FBI She was lying on her back her arms above her head her body was covered with bruises and cuts. But that was not all her mouth had been slashed so that it...
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...Chapter One Dahlia Parson walked down the hall of the J.B. Alexander High School in Laredo, Texas on March ninetieth 2026. She was headed towards the lunch room where she would meet up with her friends. She is a sophomore in high school. Dahlia has a few soft freckles around her cheeks and forehead, and brown eyes. She walked into the cafeteria. "Hi!" Daisy, Dahlia's twin sister, waved as she left the line where you get food, while Dahlia got in line. She grabbed a plastic tray and walked her way through the line as the lunch ladies put a tortilla and meat into one section of her tray. She chose a fruit salad along with celery and carrots with bottled water. She left the line and carefully walked to her sisters table where Daxton, Azalea,...
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...The Girl The girl in the black rain coat sat calmly on the newly finished bench waiting for the bus. It was a gray cement bench, with writing on the top, like a tombstone, definitely dedicated to someone whose name she couldn’t quite read. It didn’t matter anyway. It was raining hard enough to see the rain come straight down like elongated bullets. The bus arrived in the rain, spewing water on both sides. The girl in the black rain coat sauntered up the stairs of the Tri City Transit Bus, paid her fare, and found an empty seat on the crowded bus. Despite the rain coat’s unflattering bagginess, it wasn’t hard to tell she was a beautiful woman, drop dead gorgeous by anyone’s standards. Long hair black as a dahlia framed an innocent untanned complexion. The next stop came and its only passenger was quick to notice the girl in the black raincoat’s unusual beauty. Spotting lips as red as her cherry red boots, he approached her seat. Thrown off balance by her beauty, he awkwardly asked, “Excuse me, is anyone sitting here?” “No, feel free.” So he sat down next to her. More caught his eye. He saw a single drop of water running down her face. Or was it a tear, he thought. Noticing her eyes were shiny and wet, he believed he found an opening. “What’s a girl as pretty as you got to cry about?” He asked. She solemnly looked at him. “My boyfriend died, I’m heading to his funeral.” “I’m really sorry for you. Let me know if there’s anything I can do. I’m Joseph...
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...Growing up I watched black and white movies with my dad. They were always just mystery movies to me, but there was something compelling about them. I was intrigued. I find that as I watch these movies again I’m able to view them with a more critical eye looking for what made them so special. Prior to World War II American films were about singing, dancing and happy endings. The occupation in Europe changed all that. Many European directors, artists and actors escaped to America and brought their artistic visions and hellish nightmares with them. The movies they made provided them with a creative outlet. They showed a dark side to humanity in which American soldiers returning from war could relate to. It helped them see that they were not the only ones with problems and that life was not always easy. It helped normalize what they were feeling and perhaps even helped them adjust to coming back home. Film Noir films were a complete change to what the American public was familiar with. They exposed the audience to something new and different. These movies brought an “edge and roughness” to life as they knew it. Most of all they provided new techniques to film making. The director’s innovative use of lighting and cinematography were never seen before. The audience was drawn in to focus on the main characters which I think made the scene more intimate. The actors had to up there performances showcasing their acting ability. Music played a big role in these movies as...
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...What I Call Home In life everyone has their own dreams, whether it be about cars, houses, or their career. Most people I know dream to have the biggest and luxurious houses but I was always satisfied with mine. My house is not a tiny apartment nor a huge mansion but a two story, plain brown brick cozy house with white painted doors. The front yard is decorated with beautiful flowers; roses, lilies, violets, dahlias, daisies and much more, my mother usually plant them. She says, "Flowers are a pleasure and perfection of nature, and they give many things to people, and it does not matter if you are rich or poor, they give you a wonderful world which makes you feel happy". It definitely makes her and our neighbors happy. She shares the seeds of her flowers with the neighbors since they love and always compliment her garden. Walking through the front doors of my house after a long day of school always makes me feel so relaxed. There is always a smell of fresh vanilla or brown sugar candles the moment I walk through my white painted door. As I walk up the stairs and I see four bedrooms and a washroom. There is one bedroom for each of us in the family; my parents, brother, sister and myself. I usually go straight to my room when I get home. The walls in my room are painted a nice light green. There’s my bed in the middle of the room, a desk, night table and a closet. I have always wished I had a walk in closet but I'm comfortable with what I have now, this closet does me just fine...
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...Decline of Democracy in America The founding fathers didn’t create a democracy because they thought it would work perfectly. They didn’t give people the right to vote so that everyone would find true happiness. They knew better than to create a utopia where everyone had their own white picket fence, went to church on Sunday and lead lives as model citizens. They understood that toes would get stepped on, feelings would get hurt and sacrifices would happen. The founding fathers didn’t start a revolution to make people happy, they started a revolution because they believed in the idea that everyone had the right to equality. They founded America on the belief that hard work will lead to prosperity in the land of opportunity. All the ideas we associate with America: capitalism, the free market, education, elections, these all came about because people wanted to have power over where their life took them. Being able to make decisions in your own interest: the founding fathers based America on that principal, and they structured the government so it would protect those interests. Today, this is not the case. Although it may appear that America has come a long way since the civil and women’s rights movement, increasing inequality and discrimination in the 21st century has created a democracy that no longer represents the interests of its constituents but its ruling elite. Despite people’s preconceptions that our society represents...
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