The Black Dahlia Files by Don Wolfe

Author:Don Wolfe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

Mr. Ruditsky: I think she, too, is psychopathic.

Senator Wiley: Who is psychopathic?

Mr. Ruditsky: Virginia Hill. She called me one night, and she said, “You better get over here right away; I have trouble at the house.” I went over there. There were three or four people in there that I didn’t know. She was sitting there. Al Smiley was there. There was a fellow by the name of Swifty Morgan there. They were having dinner. She was there in a bathing suit and had a gun in her hand. She said, “I am going to kill everybody in the house, the maid, and the Chinese butler, and everybody.” She said, “They have been stealing and robbing me.” Well. Looking at the woman, when you see her, you know she is a definite—definitely a mental case. That was my opinion of her.

When Siegel returned to Los Angeles on Monday, January 6, 1947, he was on a desperate cash foray, and at 10:30 A.M., Al Greenberg’s McCadden Gang robbed the Mocambo nightclub on the Sunset Strip, escaping with a small fortune in jewelry and more than $6,000 in weekend receipts. The jewelry had been put on display at the Mocambo by Siegel’s friend Maurice Reingold, who had a history of frequent thefts of his heavily insured jewelry. The accountant, Isabelle Koch, described the leader of the trio that robbed the Mocambo as a forty-five-year-old man with a felt hat who held the employees at gunpoint saying, “Let’s nobody be no heroes now,” while a younger man, who walked with a limp and was described as at least six feet, four inches tall, swept the jewels out of the safe into a satchel. The leader in the felt hat was later identified as Al Greenberg.

According to the FBI files, Siegel planned to stay in Los Angeles for several days and had purchased a TWA ticket for a flight to New York on January 14, 1947, for a week’s visit with Esta and his two children, who were living in an apartment at 88 Central Park West. But on the morning of January 14, the FBI learned that Siegel had suddenly canceled his trip.

It was on January 9,1947, three days after the Mocambo robbery, that Elizabeth Short returned to Los Angeles from San Diego and was dropped off by Red Manley at the Biltmore Hotel before walking out of the Olive Street exit and vanishing that evening; it was on the morning of Tuesday, January 14, that Bugsy cancelled his flight to New York. Sometime that night, Elizabeth Short was killed by being repeatedly struck on the head by a blunt metal instrument and having her face slashed open with a knife.

On January 15, the day Elizabeth’s mutilated and bisected body was discovered on Norton Avenue, Bugsy made reservations at the Colonial House in Palm Springs, which was known to be a Syndicate retreat. FBI reports establish that Siegel planned to stay in Palm Springs for ten days before returning to Las Vegas.21

On January

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