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Alayna

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Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Yeah, why would you not take photographs, take a mold of it, like do whatever you can. Right. Like that's... And to let that crime scene become so...

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Yeah, why would you not take photographs, take a mold of it, like do whatever you can. Right. Like that's... And to let that crime scene become so...

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

so contaminated and congested i just yeah yeah i'm like did they ever come out and say like we didn't take the photograph because blah blah no i think they just things it's the same thing as like it got lost and this is the like they just don't explain it yeah a few weeks later investigators acknowledged that they had no leads and that this case was cold

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

so contaminated and congested i just yeah yeah i'm like did they ever come out and say like we didn't take the photograph because blah blah no i think they just things it's the same thing as like it got lost and this is the like they just don't explain it yeah a few weeks later investigators acknowledged that they had no leads and that this case was cold

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Now, the story of the Black Dahlia murder had dominated the papers for weeks, with stories informed very heavily by people just theorizing and speculating and whatever bits of information the LAPD was willing to parcel out to the public. The latter of these included information about certain arrests and potential suspects who were inevitably and very quickly ruled out.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Now, the story of the Black Dahlia murder had dominated the papers for weeks, with stories informed very heavily by people just theorizing and speculating and whatever bits of information the LAPD was willing to parcel out to the public. The latter of these included information about certain arrests and potential suspects who were inevitably and very quickly ruled out.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

But behind the scenes, there were other suspects whose names weren't immediately released to the press and who were considered way more seriously than the people they were releasing to the press. Also, in the years since Elizabeth Short's death, a large number of authors and journalists, they've published books and articles naming many suspects.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

But behind the scenes, there were other suspects whose names weren't immediately released to the press and who were considered way more seriously than the people they were releasing to the press. Also, in the years since Elizabeth Short's death, a large number of authors and journalists, they've published books and articles naming many suspects.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

ranging from famous people like Orson Welles and Woody Guthrie and even notorious gangster Bugsy Siegel. Damn. Lots of people have been fingered for this. The suspect list contained more than 20 names, including many doctors and a few women. Huh. Which I don't know if I... Just the pathology of this one, I don't see it, but I could obviously be wrong. Yeah.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

ranging from famous people like Orson Welles and Woody Guthrie and even notorious gangster Bugsy Siegel. Damn. Lots of people have been fingered for this. The suspect list contained more than 20 names, including many doctors and a few women. Huh. Which I don't know if I... Just the pathology of this one, I don't see it, but I could obviously be wrong. Yeah.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Well, some of these theories have been very debunked over the years, like very easily. There remains a small list of names that many believe contains the killer's identity in there. This girl, I believe it. I definitely think so. So this one... Is interesting.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Well, some of these theories have been very debunked over the years, like very easily. There remains a small list of names that many believe contains the killer's identity in there. This girl, I believe it. I definitely think so. So this one... Is interesting.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

So in John Gilmore's 1994 book, Severed, The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder, the author strongly suspects Jack Anderson Wilson, a.k.a. Arnold Smith, as the killer based largely on circumstantial evidence, which is evidence. Yeah, no matter what. No matter what. And that's really all we got at this point. And he bases it on an interview he conducted with Wilson before his death.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

So in John Gilmore's 1994 book, Severed, The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder, the author strongly suspects Jack Anderson Wilson, a.k.a. Arnold Smith, as the killer based largely on circumstantial evidence, which is evidence. Yeah, no matter what. No matter what. And that's really all we got at this point. And he bases it on an interview he conducted with Wilson before his death.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

In the interview, Wilson claimed to have been driven to kill by some supernatural force. He told Gilmore he had to do that when the spirit overtook him. Wilson went on to hint at his participation in the murder, saying, quote, you understand the trouble I could get into because of what he did. If he could somehow make it seem like that he didn't do it, you know what I mean?

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

In the interview, Wilson claimed to have been driven to kill by some supernatural force. He told Gilmore he had to do that when the spirit overtook him. Wilson went on to hint at his participation in the murder, saying, quote, you understand the trouble I could get into because of what he did. If he could somehow make it seem like that he didn't do it, you know what I mean?

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

It's like we're talking about litigation and that sort of thing. Everyone is entitled to go nuts. What? Everyone is entitled to go nuts. This is like that investigator being like, you know, she probably teased him and he went berserk. And again. Babes, we're not entitled to that. It separates us from the animals. You need to like, what are you talking about?

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

It's like we're talking about litigation and that sort of thing. Everyone is entitled to go nuts. What? Everyone is entitled to go nuts. This is like that investigator being like, you know, she probably teased him and he went berserk. And again. Babes, we're not entitled to that. It separates us from the animals. You need to like, what are you talking about?

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

That's the thing. This is not a disorganized, frenzied, passionate moment of crazy anger moment. This is meticulous.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

That's the thing. This is not a disorganized, frenzied, passionate moment of crazy anger moment. This is meticulous.