The Missing Killer Stephen R Kay

A mother once took her child for a walk in a Los Angeles neighborhood and stumbled upon a gruesome sight: the body of a young naked woman sliced clean in half at the waist. This was the start of one of Hollywood’s most notorious unsolved cases in history. The case has been passed down from detective to detective, searching for answers and clues to find the missing killer. The woman was named Elizabeth Short and she was a young actress from a small town in Massachusetts. There were hundreds of people that came forward trying to claim they were the one that had committed the killing of “The Black Dahlia” but only a few had stood out as actual possible suspects. Initially, George Hodel was framed as the missing killer. His son, Steve Hodel, was going through his dad’s belongings when he noticed two photos of a

The police concluded through a “handwriting test comparing his writing and the killer’s letter that it was unidentifiable” (DeMaria). While searching through his fathers belongings, Steve found a large bag of concrete, the same size, and brand as a concrete bag found near Elizabeth Short’s body. Steve’s research has even gained some attention from law enforcement. In 2004, Stephen R. Kay, the head deputy for L.A. County’s district attorney office, said, “if George Hodel was still alive we would have enough to indict him for the Elizabeth Short murder” (DeMaria). In the end, the Los Angeles Police Department had a bigger suspect on their hands. Secondly, in 2017 British author Piu Eatwell announced that she had finally solved the case. She claimed that, “the real culprit was Leslie Dillon, a man who police briefly considered the primary suspect but ultimately let go” (DeMaria). Her theory was that Dillon, who worked as a bellhop, murdered Short at a local nightclub and carried her to the park where she was