A woman taking a peaceful morning stroll in central Los Angeles with her three year-old daughter, came across what she thought was a mannequin broken in half. But as she got closer to the figure laying in the dirt face up, she realized that it wasn’t a broken mannequin, it was something far worse. It was a woman’s naked body, cut in half. Her hair was tattered, she had gashes cut into the corner of her mouth and her intestines were tucked into her buttocks. It was a very macabre scene. When the two detectives assigned to the case, Harry Hansen and Finnis Brown, arrived on the scene they lifted the woman’s fingerprints and sent them into the FBI headquarters. A match was quickly found. The dead woman lying in the vacant lot was Elizabeth Short, a beautiful, young aspiring actress. She had her whole life ahead of her, with nothing but big dreams. Who killed her and why ?
Elizabeth Short was born on July 29, 1924, in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. She was one of five girls to Cleo and Phoebe Short. She was raised in Medford, Massachusetts, where Cleo’s successful business of building miniature golf courses was booming. In 1929, however, the Great Depression hit and caused the Short family to go bankrupt. Cleo couldn’t continue to go through the agony of not being able to support his family. Cleo parked his car on a bridge and disappeared. A few years later Cleo wrote Phoebe a letter saying he saved up money to move her and the kids to California, but she shunned him, stating she never wanted to see him again. Phoebe continued to be a single mother and raised all five girls on her own. As Elizabeth got older, respiratory problems were occurring. She developed severe asthma and chronic bronchitis. By the time she was sixteen, her asthma go...
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...ew the affect she had on men and she used it frequently. Elizabeth moved back to California again, still aspiring to be an actress. She moved between many places. Staying for free at places she could. Elizabeth was always impecunious. Elizabeth never had close friends but always had company around. The last person to see Elizabeth alive was Robert Manley. He dropped her off at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles so she could, supposedly, meet up with her sister whom she was going to stay with. Robert Manley said his goodbyes, in the lobby, and went back home. Six days later, Elizabeth’s body was found in a desolate lot. Elizabeth had been killed by massive internal hemorrhaging caused by blows to the head.
Nearly 50 people confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short but all of them have been acquitted. Many people believe that the murderer was Robert Manley.
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Elizabeth Short was born on July 29, 1924 to Cleo and Phoebe Short. Elizabeth, her parents, and her four sisters lived in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Cleo, her father, left the family during the depression because he went bankrupt. Elizabeth lived in a fairly normal life growing up. However, she did have respiratory problems which eventually caused her to spend the winters in Miami, Florida. Wanting to become an actress, Elizabeth moved to Valljo, California to live with her father (Scheeres 3). Within a year, Short was sent back home to due to underage drinking. Again, Short started spending the summer in Massachusetts and winter in Florida. One time in Florida, she met and fell in love with Major Matthew M. Gordon Jr.. Gordon was in the Air Force and was soon sent to India. While in India, he proposed to Elizabeth in a letter, but Gordon died in a plane crash before he could make it back to America (Crime & Investigation Network 1). To help deal with Gordon’s death, Elizabeth spent time with men, especially...
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