Elizabeth Short's mutilated body was found on the sidewalk in a Los Angeles neighborhood in 1947 Liza Esquibias is an Editorial Intern at PEOPLE. She is a rising senior majoring in Journalism at ...

Bersinger raced to contact the authorities. The case of Short — nicknamed the Black Dahlia — has both horrified and gripped the nation, and the world, for decades. Short’s murder remains ...

She dyed her hair jet black, matching the funereal hue of the clothes she favored. The Black Dahlia, people called her, ...