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Morbid

Episode 647: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 1)

20 Feb 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the introduction to the Black Dahlia case?

501.859 - 502.1 Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)

Oh, yeah.

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502.24 - 524.064 Alina

To dump garbage everywhere. Other stuff, you know, like be the dumb part of people. So when Betty caught sight of a pale white thing in the tall grass in the empty lot, she thought, oh, someone left a broken tailor's mannequin in the lot rather than just getting rid of it properly. Yeah.

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524.264 - 529.127 Alina

You know, it was just one of those things that she kind of walked by and was like, can people stop peopling, please?

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529.147 - 531.569 Ash

Yeah, she was like, oh, my God, put your trash in the garbage.

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531.729 - 546.878 Alina

Exactly. But then Betty got closer to the object, which was just a few inches from the edge of the sidewalk. If you have ever seen the crime scene photos or anything like that or been to that area, you know that she was right up out in the open. To think that she was with her three-year-old daughter. Yeah.

547.498 - 548.499 Ash

That worst nightmare.

548.799 - 569.889 Alina

That shakes me to my core. And, I mean, Elizabeth's body was right on the grass next to the sidewalk. I mean, all of it was intentional. And she immediately realized she was not looking at a mannequin at all, but a horrifically mutilated body of a young woman who had been bisected at the waist.

570.189 - 570.309 Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)

Mm-hmm.

571.371 - 586 Alina

I think that's what initially really drew me to this case, like made me just like morbidly fascinated and absolutely horrified by this case was just the extent of the mutilation that was done to this woman. Yeah. I could not conceive of it. I still can't conceive of it.

Chapter 2: Why are Alina and Ash revisiting the Black Dahlia case?

2179.058 - 2184.445 Alina

I'm like, I don't know if I would be able to be like, well, my cousin does have trim legs.

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2184.786 - 2190.993 Ash

It's a weird way to describe someone you think is 15 or 16 years old. Yeah, with trim legs. It's very 40s.

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2191.153 - 2211.398 Alina

Okay. Very 40s. Truly. Fortunately for investigators, once the identification division of the Washington, D.C. office of the FBI got the photos of her fingerprints, they found a match within an hour. They identified Elizabeth Short from their card file of more than 104 million possible matches. Wow. Yeah.

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2237.108 - 2237.988 Alina

22. That is so young.

2243.752 - 2248.496 Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)

22. 22.

2248.796 - 2257.604 Ash

Yeah. I think I'm also looking at it from a perspective of now being later in my 20s. Exactly. Now you're older than her. So now it's like, whoa. You've barely become an adult yet.

2257.664 - 2258.645 Alina

And she has lived.

2259.205 - 2260.026 Ash

Yeah. A lot. Yeah.

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