Would you agree that the Black Dahlia murder is one of, if not, the most depressing and saddest unsolved homicide cases in US history?

[Aztecwarrior480]

Just looking at those repulsive photos of the corpse of Elizabeth Short on google images (or pretty much all over the internet), being severed in half, is very sad and depressing to watch and just imagine the torture she's been put through. It's a shame the scumbag who did it, got away with it and most likely died of old age peacefully (undeservingly) already.
(Warning: Image below is little graphic)

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[NatashaJ]

I agree and the problem with this case is that the information about her case is constantly being changed. It really pisses me off there even an article about her claiming she hate homosexuals and minorities. 1. even if it was true why is that relevant and 2. seriously? I hate how all the articles about her are only focusing on George Hodel and personally I don't think he did. The evidence and the misinformation makes it hard for me to believe he did it. There are a lot of holes in why he could be the killer and I hate how people are way more focus on him being the killer then looking at all possibilities here.

[NatashaJ]

or the articles about her is alittle negative about her about anything.

[NatashaJ]

and also, there were other murders in the 1940s in that area that was pretty horrible that never been solve. Like the "The Lipstick Murder" where a ww2 nurse was stomped to death, The green twig murder where a woman was found dead in her car with a tree branch stick lodged in her vagina. So compare to those two I don't really know which of these 3 was the worst.

[Aztecwarrior480]

Well, they did found a man named William Heirens who confessed to the lipstick murders, changed his story from being guilty to innocent and has been in prison for over 60 years until his death in 2012.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heirens#Death

[NatashaJ]

Not really there really isn't any evidence about the lipstick murder. It went unsolved

[Anonymous]

I never heard of the racist stuff before. Sometimes as the years pass, people add and subtract things in a story for God knows whatever reason. I know she finally did get into the movies (tiny roles) which was her reason for being in California. If you ever get a chance to see "True Confessions" with Robert DeNero, part of the story is loosely based on the Black Dahlia case. In the movie it's called the "Virgin Tramp"case

[Tanairy328]

I think its terrible, but i wouldn't say its the MOST depression one out of so many other ones

[Tanairy328]

*depressing

[Tanairy328]

Jack the ripper is a bad one too, and Charles manson

[meatballs21]

There's a case about it in LA Noire which pretty much ruined the whole story of the game for me.

Spoilers ahead.

You have to arrest someone at the end of every case, and are reprimanded if you charge the wrong one. At the end of the storyline, it turns out that none of the people you've charged so far were actually guilty anyway, it was someone else AND you are forced to let them go. I very nearly stopped playing at that point.

[Lelaila]

I found that case ending also very confusing. I didn't even remember the guy. Although I like that they had their own theory about the Black Dahlia Case, and why the catching of the murderer was never released into the media.

But this game did make me look further into the cases and some of them were influenced by cases in real life.

[meatballs21]

@Lelaila It doesn't help that the game actually penalised you for getting it "wrong" although it was very clear that none of the suspects at the end of the cases were likely to be guilty in a way you could prove in court. You don't expect this sort of thing in games, and I don't think it's "meta" to simulate what frustration a real detective would feel by turning that expectation on its head. It just felt cheap and unsatisfying, not unlike the overarching storyline.

The real cases themselves are indeed fascinating, as is the investigation methods and culture that surrounded them at the time.

[Lelaila]

I totally understand your point.
Before I played all the homicide cases, I thought that I would have been separate cases. That would have made it more interesting, I think. Same M. O. for all the victims just became boring after a while.

[AleDeEurope]

Several years ago I started looking into the murder. I read a lot about it and was sort of obsessed with it for a while, because I was shocked about the whole thing, how she was found, the pictures, and the fact it was never solved :/
To me, it is the depressing murder I know of.

[ThongQueenFlirt]

I remember back in the 70s, there was a TV series called Hunter. On it, they solved the case by finding the killer. I first became interested in the Black Dahlia in my early teens. I read the case, saw the pictures, especially the one with her body lying in a field. Then, seeing her body cut in half for all the world to see. I was saddened, not just about the way she was killed, but mainly the part about her family she left behind to pursue her dreams, She was married with a family. A family she would never see again. How they could have felt about the case being unsolved. There have been plenty of murders gone unsolved, but this one had always held my attention. Even to this very day! This is a cold case I wish they could really have solved. To put all the theories to rest. So that we all can "rest in peace".

[BellePepper]

Like I don't want to say what happened to her wasn't awful but there are a LOOOOOOOOOOOT of horrible horrible murders out there. I don't know about you but I don't have the stomach to rank all the awful ways people have died.

[Nyx_85]

Every time I hear about how she was killed I feel sick. I feel it had to be personal.

[lovelyhoneybones]

It's among some of the worst. I've seen some pretty fucked up unsolved crimes, The Black Dahlia one really shook me.

[ibodi]

However, I feel American get depression so easy dont know why?

[NukeCanada]

They're all depressing. It was probably a cop who did it, which is why they never caught him.

[Anonymous]

She was probably racist. Especially, during those days. So good riddance.

[kitty71]

Was there a movie about her?

[Aztecwarrior480]

Yeah. There was a movie released in 2006 called The Black Dahlia, directed by Brian DePalma, starring Scarlett Johansson, Mia Kirshner and Hilary Swank.

[kitty71]

Interesting I may check it out

[NatashaJ]

the movie wasn't really accurate at all it more focus on the police officer then Elizabeth then the movie even have the nerve to paint Elizabeth as a porn star when there no evidence she was one. Don't watch it they just took her name and use it for money.

[HappypersonT]

It is pretty sad