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For 56 years, the Black Dahlia murder case remained one of the most notorious and high-profile unsolved crimes of the 20th century. Now, Steve Hodel, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, believes he has finally solved the case. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short - "The Black Dahlia" - was found dead in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, her body horribly mutilated, bisected at the waist, and posed in a bizarre manner.

In 1947, a young woman named Elizabeth Short was murdered in Los Angeles.

On January 15, 1947, the naked, dismembered body of a black-haired beauty, Elizabeth Short, was discovered lying next to a pavement in a Hollywood suburb. She was quickly nicknamed The Black Dahlia. The homicide enquiry that followed consumed Los Angeles for years, and the authorities blew millions of dollars of resources on an investigation that threw up dozens of suspects. But it never was solved - until now.

Hollywood & Crime is a groundbreaking true crime series about the most infamous murders in Tinseltown history. In our 26-episode series opener "The Black Dahlia Serial Killers", host Tracy Pattin investigates the sensational unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short. Known as the Black Dahlia, Short was a star-struck young woman whose body was found completely severed at the waist in January 1947. Many remember her tragic story, yet few know that more than a dozen other women died in similar circumstances around that same time.

The latter half of the 1940s found the major cities of post-war America in a precarious position. On the one hand, population centers were reabsorbing many thousands of returning veterans into the work force, and into a social system they had not experienced for some years. Previous relationships had changed during their absence, and many were starved for female company. While making the necessary readjustments to the war's end, major cities such as New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Los Angeles, were plagued by regionalized mob rule.

Alla fine degli anni Settanta Bologna è la Babilonia d'Italia, città sovversiva dove l'utopia è la realtà e la ribellione la norma. Di quest'irripetibile stagione Francesca Alinovi è stata la musa e la diva. Critica d'arte brillante, talent scout dal fiuto impareggiabile, esploratrice delle tendenze più sperimentali, Francesca ha vissuto un'esistenza travolgente spezzata da una mano che le ha inflitto quarantasette coltellate.

The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of 1947, has a permanent place in American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime mysteries. Now, Piu Eatwell - relentless legal sleuth and atmospheric stylist - cracks the case after 70 years. With recently unredacted FBI files, newly released sections of the LAPD files, and explosive new interviews, Eatwell has unprecedented access to primary evidence and a persuasive culprit.

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Zina Abraham was born in an Uzbeki prison in 1933. It was a tumultuous time in Jewish history. Soviet Union annexed the territories of what is now Uzbekistan and the Stalinist regime had led to widespread discrimination against the Jews. Ultimately released from prison and strapped to her mother’s chest, Zina and her mother, traveled by horseback undetected to Afghanistan. But as a woman in Afghanistan, she was still essentially in prison, concealed from the outside world with no access to education or medical care.

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Elizabeth Short, who is also nicknamed "Black Dahlia", was brutally murdered in January 15, 1947, with her body cut in two and severely mutilated. Dahlia's body was found in a vacant lot that is near the intersection of 39th St. and Norton Ave. in South Los Angeles and had no trace of blood in the place of the crime scene. Her death is one of the most publicized murder cases in 1947, but the police and the investigation team have never been able to solve the brutal crime. Up until now, the case of "Black Dahlia" was still considered by many as a mystery....

L'affaire du Dahlia noir fait référence au meurtre non élucidé d'Elizabeth Ann Short, 22 ans, surnommée le Dahlia noir. Le corps d'Elizabeth Ann Short a été retrouvé mutilé dans un terrain vague de Los Angeles le 15 janvier 1947. Ce crime a fait l'objet de nombreuses spéculations et a inspiré un roman à James Ellroy ainsi que des films et des téléfilms.

Here, in their own words, seven children who have confronted life-threatening illnesses and attended Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, tell their unique stories-of how to seize life, to magnify and glorify it, and be grateful for its gifts. Ranging in age from seven to 17, these children from different backgrounds and with different personalities, share uncommon courage, a vibrant spirit, and piercing candor and eloquence.

Weekly poetry leaking from the brain of a mad woman trying to make some sense out of the very act of breathing. These are poems recited from my online art blog fataldalliance.com. Please take a moment and listen to me ramble on about all and nothing at all. For more poetry and photographs, go to my online blog fataldalliance.com/art.

Love Turned Criminal is a raw memoir about the warning signs of abuse as well as a beacon of hope to all people in similar situations, letting them know they are not alone and there is a way out.

This story tells the good and the bad of my life.