Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel

Author:Steve Hodel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 1559706643
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing - A
Published: 2003-04-10T21:00:00+00:00

From the various witnesses who saw Elizabeth Short between January 9 and January 14, 1947, it's clear there was no "missing week" in Elizabeth's life. That week was crisscrossed with sightings by both complete strangers and acquaintances, most of whom spoke unequivocally about Elizabeth's moods and movements in the days and hours before her murder, and all of whom saw her within a twelve-mile radius of downtown Los Angeles. These twelve witnesses, culled from reports of other sightings that are less than reliable, are sound.

Officer McBride's sighting of Elizabeth just twenty hours before the discovery of her body, and a mere eight hours before Dr. Newbarr's forensic estimation of the time of her murder, must focus anyone's attention and suspicions on the three individuals in whose company she was seen. Who were these two men and the woman with Elizabeth? What were the descriptions of them provided by Officer McBride but not released to the public? Was one of these two men the person that Elizabeth told Officer McBride about in the bus depot, while "sobbing in terror"? Was he the same man whom Elizabeth just a short time earlier had fled from in the Main Street bar, the same "jealous suitor who had threatened to kill her"?

There is one interesting aspect to Elizabeth Short's "missing week" that may not have been apparent to the LAPD at the time but is now. In the statement made by Linda Rohr, a roommate of Elizabeth's at the Chancellor Hotel in Hollywood, she said that she last saw Elizabeth on December 6, 1946, confirming landlady Juanita Ringo's statements. Linda also said that when Elizabeth was packing to leave, she was very upset. She quoted Elizabeth as saying, "He's waiting for me," but added, "None of us ever found out who 'he' was."

The next known sighting of Elizabeth was on December 12, when she met Dorothy French at the San Diego moviehouse and was offered a place to stay at her home. So from December 6 to December 12 there is indeed a missing week for Elizabeth, but it is before she goes to San Diego and not after she leaves the Biltmore.

Since at the beginning of that week in early December we know Elizabeth was hurrying to meet her mysterious boyfriend, who that day was "waiting" for her, we can fairly assume she spent part if not all of the missing week with him. It was here that she disappeared off the radar screen. Who was this man? Where did they stay? What happened to her? Five days later Elizabeth resurfaced in San Diego, huddling for warmth in an all-night moviehouse, lonely, destitute, and afraid.

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