Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell

Author:Piu Eatwell [Eatwell, Piu]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2017-10-10T05:00:00+00:00

* This was most likely the distinguished Judge Thomas P. White, presiding judge on the Albert Dyer case, appellate judge on the “Sleepy Lagoon” case, and a lifelong friend of Dr. De River and Aggie Underwood. (See page 86.)

† The transcript of the sworn evidence given by Witman to Veitch and Stanley of the Los Angeles DA’s office remained secret, and was not released until the 2000s.

‡ Leslie Dillon had allegedly worked for some weeks in a mortuary. (See page 113.)

§ See page 112.

¶ A copy of the sketch was admitted into evidence by Fred Witman and examined by Veitch and Stanley at the secret hearing. It appears to have subsequently disappeared.

# The findings of the LAPD’s forensic testing of the rooms at the Aster Motel are discussed in more detail on page 261 onwards.

** See page 113.

†† This was a generic serial number on all the Dahlia crime scene photographs: it gave number of photograph, date, and the initials of the photographer.

‡‡ The chief’s referral of the Dahlia case to independent investigation by the grand jury could only mean that he did not have confidence in his own officers to investigate it. It is possible that Worton saw evidence of an implacable standoff between the Gangster and Homicide details on the case, and was reluctant to enter the fray.

§§ Inspector Hugh Farnham was not infrequently entrusted by Thad Brown on sensitive missions. When the actress Jean Spangler “disappeared” in late 1949 in a possible mob-connected murder, Farnham was tasked with searching an area of Ferndell Park where the actress might have gone missing. Farnham was also called as a character witness by a police officer accused of mob connections in the convoluted “Seven Dwarves” affair, involving Mickey Cohen. When Detective Lieutenant William Harper was accused of accepting bribes by Worton’s new Intelligence Division in 1950, he chose Hugh Farnham, along with two other LAPD officers, to hear his disciplinary case. Farnham took the exams for LAPD police chief to replace Clemence Horrall in 1950, coming out among the top five candidates.

¶¶ Contrast with the evidence of Tommy Harlow and Mrs. Pearl McCromber, that Leslie Dillon came to Los Angeles sporadically by bus to work for Harlow in January 1947 (page 135).

##Georgia Dillon’s account as to Leslie Dillon’s whereabouts on the night of January 14, 1947—surely one of the most pertinent, since she was his wife at the time—has never been released.

*** The originals of these recordings have, apparently, disappeared. For further discussion of the disappearance of physical evidence, see the preface of this book.

††† The difficulty with this quoted “extract” is that the date of the recording is not given. If it was made when Dillon was wised up to the fact he was a suspect, he would obviously not be giving out knowledge of key facts at this stage. Contrast this innocuous “explanation” with the detailed explanation of the mutilations that Dr. De River recorded Dillon giving at the interviews in Banning, with JJ O’Mara listening in. (See page 102.

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