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BLACK DAHLIA BIRTHDAY SALON @ TOM HOUSE - HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO


PRESENT
BLACK DAHLIA BIRTHDAY SALON
JANUARY 17TH 2018
5PM
SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM
$15 COVER
PREPAY RESERVATION GAURANTEES SEAT

~ENJOY~
HAND-BLENDED TEA
CAKES & DAINTIES
VIEW EROTIC ART
ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS
RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA
WISH DAHLIA A HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO
TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
1421 LAVETA TERRACE
ECHO PARK, CA 90026


Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – January 14 or 15, 1947), known posthumously as "the Black Dahlia". Her case became highly publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime.
On January 9, 1947, Elisabeth Short returned to her home in Los Angeles after a brief trip to San Diego with Robert "Red" Manley, a 25-year-old married salesman she had been dating. Manley stated he dropped Short off at the Biltmore Hotel, and that Short was to meet her sister, who was visiting from Boston, that afternoon. By some accounts, staff of the Biltmore recalled having seen Short using the lobby telephone. 
On the morning of January 15, 1947, Short's naked body was found in two pieces on a vacant lot on the west side of South Norton Avenue, midway between Coliseum Street and West 39th Street in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. At the time, the neighborhood was largely undeveloped. Local resident Betty Bersinger discovered the body at about 10:00 a.m. while she was walking with her three-year-old daughter.  Bersinger initially thought she had found a discarded store mannequin.
When she realized it was a corpse, she rushed to a nearby house and telephoned the police.
Short's severely mutilated body was completely severed at the waist and drained entirely of blood. Medical examiners determined that she had been dead for around ten hours prior to the discovery, leaving her time of death either sometime during the evening of January 14, or the early morning hours of January 15. The body obviously had been washed by the killer. Her face had been slashed from the corners of her mouth to her ears, creating an effect known as the "Glasgow smile.” 
 Short had several cuts on her thigh and breasts, where entire portions of flesh had been sliced away.
 The lower half of her body was positioned a foot away from the upper, and her intestines had been tucked neatly beneath her buttocks.
 The corpse had been "posed," with her hands over her head, her elbows bent at right angles, and her legs spread apart.
Upon the discovery, a crowd of both passersby and reporters began to gather; Los Angeles Herald-Express reporter Aggie Underwood was among the first to arrive at the scene, and took several photos of the corpse and crime scene.
Near the body, detectives located a heel print on the ground amid the tire tracks, and a cement sack containing watery blood was also found nearby.
Short's unsolved murder have had a lasting cultural intrigue, generating various theories and public speculation. Her life and death have been the basis of numerous books and films, and her murder is frequently cited as one of the most famous unsolved murders in American history, as well as one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles County.
 It has likewise been credited by historians as one of the first major crimes in post-World War II America to capture national attentio

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