Essay on The Black Dahlia: The Life of Elizabeth Short

Homicide. After double checking the fingerprints, they knew they were a 100% match (Block). They drove to the Golden Gate Bridge, ripped the pictures of the prints, and threw them into the water (Block). This story and Buchanan’s other works of fiction, showcase the skill Buchanan had in writing. Not only could she follow leads, interview individuals, and report on crime scenes, but she could also dream up impossible, yet realistic stories that made readers hang onto every word.

The case I chose to write on is based on a DVD that we watched in class called ‘Beaten by a hair’. In this case, a woman was reported missing after she went to work and never returned home. After the police discovered a bloody pillow case in the woods, near her house, they linked it to the missing pillow case in the woman’s room, and then realized that they had a murder case on their hands. A mystery in the case was that one of the local neighbors had mentioned seeing the woman leave through the front door of her house but the evidence says different, so investigators had to find out who left the house that morning. I am interested in this case because it was very intriguing how the forensic officers put all the pieces

Another theory of who killed Elizabeth Short is that George Hodel killed Short. Hodel is a surgeon, so he was very capable of performing the surgeon-like dismemberment of the body. (Beth Short). In 1949, Hodel was tried for the molestation of his own daughter, but was later acquitted of the charges. (Beth Short). This shows that George Hodel was not a normal person and was disturbed in the head. The real evidence comes from former LAPD detective and son of George Hodel; Steve Hodel. His son Steve says that he has found pictures with Beth Short, and that he has heard

It was the midst of day, June 30, 20--; an ill-pleasuring mess had been proposed to the police of Detroit. The corpse of an old, clumsy, joke of a gentlemen, found covered in newspaper dumped into a dumpster. The corpse was dismantled, mangled, and at the same time of many other killings. The detective, Ms. Liu, immediately concluded the cause of death and the murder weapon.

There had been a pause in the murders. Something was going on inside. . . . I told myself that it was over at last. Finally, I saw a woman appear, as white as a sheet, being helped by a turnkey. They said to her harshly: "Shout 'Vive la nation! '" "No! No!" she said. They made her climb up on a pile of corpses. One of the killers grabbed the turnkey and pushed him away. "Oh!" exclaimed the ill-fated woman, "do not harm him!" They repeated that she must shout "Vive la nation!" With disdain, she refused. Then one of the killers grabbed her, tore away her dress, and ripped open her stomach. She fell, and was finished off by the

In the Kathy Reich’s novel, Deja Dead, a Forensic Anthropologist, named Dr. Temperance Brennan, recently moved to the Canadian province of Quebec to escape her divorce. There, Dr. Brennan works for the “Laboratoire de Medecine Legale”, a coroner’s office in the city of Montreal. The novel begins when Dr. Brennan is called to investigate bones found by two Quebec water workers at an abandoned monastery. At the scene, Dr. Brennan discovers the meticulously mutilated and dismembered remains of a female stashed in a series of trash bags. As the novel progresses, Dr. Brennan begins to notice a pattern amongst the remains brought to her lab: all victims were female, most dismembered with similar methods of disposal and evidence of mutilation.

On the first day that the police began their digging, they found two bodies. One of the bodies was buried under the garage. The other body was the one found in the crawl space. As the days passed, the body count grew higher. Some of the victims were found with their underwear still lodged deep in their throats. Other victims were buried so close together that police believed they

Introduction: One summer morning, a 38-year-old woman named Anna Garcia was found dead. Anna was found lying facedown in the entry hallway of her home in a pool of blood. Many different pieces of evidence found at the crime scene have been analyzed to determine the manner of Anna’s death: natural, accident, or homicide. The analyzed evidence found at the crime scene includes fingerprints, blood type, shoeprint, hair, unknown substances, blood spatters, and DNA. Anna Garcia’s autopsy report currently contains information on Anna’s toxicology results, external examination results, and physical examination results. The evidence that has been analyzed mainly focuses on the persons of interest: Alex Garcia, Doug Greene, Erica Piedmont, and Lucy

Investigation: The detective upon receiving information on the events, beings his initial investigation of the crime. The detective, along with his team, collects evidence such as: video surveillance, finger prints, bullet analysis, blood pattern analysis, DNA, and interviews the witnesses. At some point in the investigation, an interview was conducted on a customer that got a full description of the suspect. The detective, upon hearing his statement, requests for a sketch artist. The sketch artist pencils up a picture of the suspect and copies are made and handed out to all patrols. The individual describes the suspect as a tall white male, with short brown hair, about 6’4, wearing glasses with a five o’ clock shadow, and about 210lbs. The suspect was described as wearing a white hoodie and blue

In a small midwestern town in Villisca, Iowa rests the quiet house of Josiah B. Moore and Sarah Montgomery Moore, who were both killed with an ax around midnight along with their 4 children Katherine, Herman, Boyd, and Paul. All in the age range between 5 and 11. In addition to those murders, as if it weren’t bad enough, two friends of theirs were sleeping over. The Stillinger sisters, Lena and Ina both just 12 an 8 years old, were killed as well. The Villisca Murder Case as called by law enforcement was the longest unsolved case of our time. It’s still unsolved, and has been left open for more than 100 years. It was a terrible tragedy because the small town of Villisca lost eight innocent lives that night. The murderer unknown, evidence they hardly have any, and eight people’s skulls

In 1995 a police detective received a call that there was a skeleton found in the back of the casey's gas station in Dewitt Iowa. The police detectives said they found a bag of bones in a square of cement peaking above the surface. They reported that the bag smelled of acid and of cleaning chemicals. When they opened the bag they found a bag of bags that were smashed into small pieces. They call in a murder detective to try to re enact this murder. The detective said this was a murder that looked like a Jeffrey Dahmer murder.

Elizabeth had many struggles throughout her life. She had to deal with depression and anxiety throughout adulthood. She was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder due to all the constant bullying she experienced at Central High school. Her disorder was so bad she had to drop out of two colleges that she attended. After she transferred she dropped out to marry at age sixteen.

Early the next morning of December 8th, the lifeless body of Debbie Carter was found strangled in her small apartment. The murder of Debbie Carter flipped this small, rural, bible-belt, town on its head. People were outraged, overwhelmed, and stunned that such a thing could happen in this town to a young, beautiful girl whom everyone had known. This gruesome act put enormous pressure on local law enforcement to find the atrocious criminal. Finger prints, hair, and blood spatter was carefully collected from the scene.

A biography is defined as a written account of another person 's life. The key word in the definition being another person’s life. Biographies are full of great information that can often times make history fun and exciting. Historical phenomenon is often portrayed through biographies allowing us to see how society has developed over time and how the past and present may be similar. Although biographies are full of information often times it is impossible to prove them to be true because they aren’t written by the person themselves. Linda Colley’s The ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh is a great example of an exciting biography that allows us to learn about British Imperial Rule through someone else’s eyes.

Elizabeth was born in Boston July 29, 1924 to her parents Cleo and Phoebe Short. Her father left randomly and wasn’t heard from until years later. She left for Miami when she was 16 and grew up there until she was 19, where she then moved to California with her dad. She left him after getting in an argument and spent her time