Elizabeth Short (22) was a native of Boston, who had spent her early life in New England and Florida.
In July 1946 she relocated to California, where her father lived.
She stayed in a rented room behind the Florentine Gardens nightclub on Hollywood Boulevard, and worked as a waitress whilst apparently looking for acting roles.
However there is “no record of her having played so much as a bit part”.
Elizabeth Short’s body was found on 15th January 1947 by a woman called Betty Bersinger, who initially thought it was a mannequin.
The media went on to refer to Elizabeth Short as the “Black Dhalia”, a spin on the 1946 crime film the “Blue Dahlia”.
Excerpts from an online article read;
The LAPD identified Elizabeth Short by her fingerprints, and an autopsy was performed on Short’s body on January 16, 1947.
Marks on her body suggested the woman had been bound and tortured, and her official cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage and shock.
By Emily Martin article headed A Brief History of The Black Dahlia
Murderer Luke Mitchell On Elizabeth Short
The following extracts have been copied directly from Corinne Mitchell’s trial testimony in which Elizabeth Short was referred to. Advocate depute Alan Turnbull was telling the jury about the murderers psyche report (from page 2457 of day 2);
- Alan Turnbull: There is something else in that report that I wonder if you would help me with. Look with me please at page 11 of that report.
- Lord Nimmo Smith: This is defence production 26?
- Alan Turnbull: It’s defence production 26 my Lord, thank you very much. And we’ll put it on the screen because the ladies and gentlemen don’t have a copy of it. And it’s that paragraph at the top of the page that I’m interested in. You’ll see there that Luke is discussing with Dr Campbell is the fact that he had a Marilyn Manson DVD which the police took away
- Corinne Mitchell: Yes
- Alan Turnbull: And that was the one which was bought on the Wednesday after Jodi’s killing?
- Corinne Mitchell: Yes
- Alan Turnbull: It goes on to say that ‘he indicated that the DVD portrayed a video with dancers dressed as Elizabeth short. When he explained, for my benefit, that Elizabeth Short was known as the Black Dhalia and had been a good actress and had been found dead by the side of the road with traumatic incision of (sic) injuries, these were across her face, across her abdomen and chunks of flesh had been removed from her chin and left breast. Luke Mitchell stated that he had not had any knowledge of Elizabeth Short until he had accessed this information via a website. He states that he did this after the death of Jodi Jones’
- Corinne Mitchell: Yes
- Alan Turnbull: Now had you seen the DVD that went with the Marilyn Manson CD?
- Corinne Mitchell: Some of it (incomprehensible) I don’t like Marilyn Manson
- Alan Turnbull: Yes. It’s just the notion that it portrays dancers dressed as Elizabeth Short that I’m interested in. Did you see that on the bit that you saw?
- Corinne Mitchell: No
- Alan Turnbull: Have you by any chance seen another Marilyn Manson video that accompanied the single from that CD, where the dancers had sort of uniforms on and a mark painted up the side of their face as if it was showing some sort of split in their cheek?
- Corinne Mitchell: No. But as I say I don’t like Marilyn Manson so don’t watch any (incomprehensible)
- Alan Turnbull: Alright. But you see I’m looking at the reference here to dancers dressed as Elizabeth Short. And it would appear that this is something that Luke has told Dr Campbell about?
- Corinne Mitchell: Yes
- Alan Turnbull: And has explained to Dr Campbell that he found the information about Elizabeth Short via a website?
- Corinne Mitchell: Yes it says that here
- Alan Turnbull: Do you know where he did that?
- Corinne Mitchell: No
- Alan Turnbull: Would it have been at your house?
- Corinne Mitchell: Possibly, I don’t understand (sic) so I don’t know. More than likely his fathers
- Alan Turnbull: Was there a computer still working and available in your house after the police came to take things away in early July?
- Corinne Mitchell: No, there was nothing there
- Alan Turnbull: Okay. So it couldn’t really have been in your house if it was?
- Corinne Mitchell: Unless it was Shane, if Shane got his laptop back. I doubt that he would have used Shane’s laptop so it was possibly at his fathers
- Alan Turnbull: Right. Because Luke’s explaining here that although he accessed this website, he did it after the death of Jodi
- Corinne Mitchell: Yes
- Alan Turnbull: Right. But between Jodi’s death, on the 4th July there would be a computer in your house but not afterwards?
- Corinne Mitchell: That’s right
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Excerpts By Scammer Sandra Lean
Scammer Sandra Lean omitted the above evidence from her second innocence fraud book, but did state the following;
Of the August 14th raid on the Mitchell home, one officer said in a statement that he was told to look specifically for anything Manson related.
Also, the officer who found the Dahlia paintings said that the images were “not easy” to find on the internet and that someone looking for them would have to know what they were looking for – which clearly suggests this officer did!
Excerpts by Sandra Lean from her 2nd innocence fraud book Innocents Betrayed
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