At the Biltmore Hotel, where Short was last seen, the bar serves a Black Dahlia cocktail. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. Harnisch has studied the case off and on for twenty-four years. Walter was our only sonthe only child of our flesh and blood, Bayley said in a newspaper story. Then he had to determine who was still alive. The other photograph remains unidentified. As you can see, Harnisch says, its an easy walk from the crime scene to Walter Bayleys houseonly one block. Youre going to get your ass caught. Douglas speculated that the killer wanted to shock and horrify the residents, sending the message that Short was a slut. In his office, Harnisch points out a framed photo of Short, who was called Beth at the time, wearing a green beret, a matching top, and a string of pearls. She later wrote to him: Perhaps Matt was my man. While most decades-old murders slip into obscurity, the Black Dahlia case attracts so much attention that the LAPD has continued to assign the homicide to a specific detective since the lead investigator retired in 1960. As reliable sources of information about the case, such as the FBI files and portions of the Los Angeles district attorney files, have become publicly available, statements about Short and the murder attributed to Wilson in Severed and supposedly tying him to the crime have not been borne out as accurate. In August, 1945, five days before V-J Day, Gordon was killed in a crash and Short never overcame her grief. This seemed very strange, Harnisch says. She claimed to be a war widow, yet she never married her fiance. Prior to Wilson's death, however, Gilmore made an entirely different claim to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in a story appearing January 17, 1982. He and his wife knew the Bayley family well and Harnisch surmises that when Elizabeth Short, who had been couch surfing and virtually homeless for the past year, had been dropped off at the Biltmore Hotel, after a sojourn in San Diego, with no place to stay and little money, she might have recalled some advice from West or her sister. There were also many coincidences why people assume that he murdered The Black Dahlia because of how she died and the horrible things that the killer did to her. On January 9, Short made up a story about meeting her sister at the Biltmore, so Manley dropped her there. 1, spent 43 years as a homicide detective and investigated more than 1,000 murders and twelve serial killers. He never imagined that he would unearth a murder scenario and a suspect who would intrigue LAPD detectives. Bayley was 67 years old at the time of the murder, had no known history of violence or criminal activity of any kind, and is not known to have met Short, even though his daughter was a friend of Short's oldest sister. After his death, Bayley's widow alleged that his mistress knew a "terrible secret" about Bayley and claimed this was the reason the mistress was the main beneficiary upon his death. Larry Harnisch's Site on Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. I can still see him put his hand over the mouthpiece of the old-fashioned upright phone and say, Now, what do I tell her?, Richardson screwed up his one good eye and said, Now tell her. She agreed to serve as the matron of honor at Shorts sisters wedding, she told Harnisch, because there wasnt anybody else., Harnisch adds one more variable to his hypothesis. The envelope included a letter using cut-out words from newspaper clippings that said, "Here is Dahlia's belongings." The mother didnt answer. Daily News reporter Jack Smith, later a revered Los Angeles Times columnist, wrote that the frenzied coverage was The Front Page come to life.. Bayleys lesion and drastic personality change could be the result of, Frontotemporal dementia from a series of little strokes, Fallon says. Detectives were also inundated with dozens of false confessions during the first few months after the murder and they interviewed a steady stream of menand a few womenwho claimed to be the killer. It later comes out that she was promiscuous, perhaps even a lady of the night. This is where Jake Gittes in the movie Chinatown discovers that a civic kingmaker has been surreptitiously buying up San Fernando Valley scrubland for rock-bottom prices because he has insider knowledge that the land will soon be worth a fortune when an aqueduct brings water to the area, enabling the property to be developed. Ill never say Im a hundred percent sure. In 2003, he was identified by Los Angeles Times reporter Larry Harnisch as a possible suspect in the infamous Black Dahlia case. Take away any one element and nobody would care today. An interview with Bayleys former secretary was of particular interest. Steve Hodel, many years later, brought a . A hefty man with a white mustache and goatee who is wearing a Panama hat, Hodel reflects on the painful period after the release of his book when his integrity was questioned. If she met him on the pretext of getting help, she would have pulled the sob story about having a son who died. Despite persistent attempts by Republic Pictures to get him to return to complete the film, he refused. He hoped to discover the link between the killer, the crime scene, and the neighborhood. She claimed that she worked as a waitress while living in L.A, yet she never held a job here. I shadowed him on his last day on the job when I was a reporter for the, Former colleagues and relatives expressed to Harnisch how shocked they were at how Bayleys personality drastically changed toward the end of his life. This was post-World War II Los Angeles and the whole noir thing is very big now. In 2009,[30] Newton wrote that Janice Knowlton's relatives confirmed her father George was capable of violent abuse and further reported of his "boasts of [having committed] unprosecuted homicides". Hes a journalist, he lets the facts guide him, and he doesnt have any agenda other than the truth. Author James Ellroy endorsed Harnisch's theory in the 2001 film James Ellroy's Feast of Death. Welles left the country for an extended stay in Europe 10 months after the murder without completing the editing of Macbeth, the film he was both directing and starring in. The expertise of Dr. Bayley in medical field was a surgeon which means he had a lot of knowledge about how our body works. Dunne and his wife, Joan Didion wrote the screenplay for the movie, which starred Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. He holds true to the three things that the investigators speculated about the murderer, the murder and the crime scene. In December 1948, Dillon agreed to meet with De River and was given the choice of one of three cities: Los Angeles; Phoenix, Arizona; or Las Vegas, Nevada. [15] Hansen's great granddaughter Helen Alexis Yonov was interviewed for Piu Eatwell's upcoming documentary on the Black Dahlia for NBC Peacock Productions. Upon his death, his wife and girlfriend ended up in a legal battle over his belongings with his girlfriend claiming she knew a secret that would ruin him personally and professionally. Short, who was only twenty-two when she died, was raised in the Boston suburb of Medford, the third of five girls. The scenes containing the set were deleted from the film by Harry Cohn. Among authors, the case has resonated for decades. Bayley was chief of staff at Los Angeles County Hospital and an associate professor of surgery at USC Medical School, and doctors Harnisch interviewed who knew Bayley, as well as his secretary, insisted that it was highly unlikely that a surgeon with his professional standing would have performed abortions. In 2003, Harnisch was sanguine about his book. After encountering these early erroneous accounts, he vowed that everything he wrote would be exact, backed by authenticated sources, and he ended up spending an inordinate amount of time, which stalled his own research and writing, challenging the accounts of other writers. I absolutely love research, he says. Unlike other crimes, there is no statute of limitations on murder and a homicide investigation is never closed until it is solved. Harnisch points out that this was a hulking eight-story medical building devoted entirely to doctors, so just having an office there proves nothing. His first draft, he realized, had been overstuffed, encyclopedic rather than dramatic. The drastic personality shift at the end of Bayleys life wasnt anything I could have ever dreamed of happening, she told him. Not to mention Black Dahlia's body was found in Hollywood, California. Short was face up, her gray-blue eyes were open, and she had been posed with elbows bent at right angles, her hands over her head, and her legs were spread with her knees straight. The editor wanted a noir stroll through the clips, but after perusing the articles, Harnisch realized that boilerplate anniversary stories had been written by reporters on previous anniversaries. I feel a responsibility. One of the pilots at the reunion let me copy this and told me the story, Harnisch says. They spent one night at a motel, but it was an erotically uneventful night, a reporter wrote. Newton, Michael (2009) The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes, second edition. If the autopsy had been conducted by the Los Angeles County Coroner, Harnisch says, he could have obtained a copy because its a public record, but a pathologist at the Veterans Administration conducted the postmortem. He has a secret and lived in constant fear of being exposed. I still dont have all the details Id like and Im still hoping to get more. As a result of wide-spread corruption in the LAPD, Hodel claimed, the murders were covered up and never solved. Donahoe balked. The truth is, Harnisch says, she was just a young woman traumatized by the death of her fiance, a lost soul homeless, grieving, and adrift. Everyone wants to fuck with it.. The lead detective on the case, Harry Hansen, told the Grand Jury that he believed that Shorts killer had surgical expertise. He also spends the evening wandering around the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, where Short was last seen, paying homage to her and ruminating about the case. As quoted in Newton, 2009, p. 46. They didnt. [27] She frequently alleged that she was sexually abused by a long list of dead movie stars and other notables, including Norman Chandler, Gene Autry (whose name she continually misspelled as Autrey), Arthur Freed, and Walt Disney. Again, this was before online searches were possible, so he had to scour voter registration records, Department of Motor Vehicles databases, telephone books, newspaper clips, and other sources. On January 15th. Harnisch discovered that mob boss, Jack Dragna, lived four-and-a-half blocks from the crime scene, so he had to determine if there was an organized crime connection to the murder. I shadowed him on his last day on the job when I was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and during lunch at a dim, smoky steakhouse near downtown, I asked him about the Dahlia case. People thought because Jack Webb was tied into the LAPD it was all true. After spending more than two decades investigating the case and Los Angeles history, and researching the victim and a suspect, Harnisch anticipates finally finishing his book next year. investigation, which was initiated as a result of the Dillon debacle, placed him in San Francisco at the time of the killing. The profiler, John Douglas, speculated that the killer was probably angry at some residents on Norton Avenue and intended to put the fear of God into that neighborhood. Harnisch recalled this when he learned that Bayley had adopted two girls and then had one biological son whom he doted on and whod been killed. Lindgren told Harnisch how scandalized the family was when her father left them for Partyka. He raced through the two lines, pencil poised, and wrote in a single word. Smith later discovered that the editor, who had no idea what Short looked like, added beautiful to describe the victim. In addition to Short, Hodel claimed in the book that his father also killed Jeanne French a month later, which was called by the newspapers the Red Lipstick Murder because of the writing on the body. The question of why this case has fascinated so many for so long has intrigued Larry Harnisch and sent him on such an intensive and serpentine journey of research, interviews, and archival study that some consider him Los Angeles most knowledgeable Black Dahlia authority. After this happened, Dillon sailed a postcard out a hotel window with a plea for help on it; it was discovered by a passerby and turned in to local authorities. And because his will was contested, Harnisch was able to study the probate files from the Hall of Records, which listed the contents of his office, down to the serial numbers of his typewriters, and all of his debts. In addition, he met with Walter Tim Liemert, the son of the man who developed the housing tract, located in the neighborhood named after himLiemert Park. files. She concocted numerous other sob stories to con men she had briefly met out of a few bucks. He had been convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for "taking his secretary to a motel and sadistically beating her almost to death apparently for no other reason than to satisfy his sexual desires without intercourse," the files state. During the summer of 1997, his family was out of town, so he had some extra time to take a more thorough look at the contents of the box. If he ever encountered anything significant, he believed that it would stand out like a beacon. Nothing related to Norton Avenue did stand out, however, but he was not discouraged. I have a little pet theory of my own. No charges were ever brought against him. He doesnt bring in all this superfluous stuff to prove his case. He talks to a retired LAPD detective whose 3 year investigation led to the stunning conclusion that his own father committed the murder. Ten days after Shorts body was found, the killer mailed an envelope of Shorts belongings to the Examiner. Trying to accurately chronicle the boyhood, career, war experiences, mental decline, flaws and foibles, and the marriage and eventual dissolution of the union of an unremarkable man born in 1880 seemed, at times, like a quixotic quest. One, its unsolved; two, the nickname; and three, the horrible nature of the crime. They werent. [24] George Knowlton allegedly murdered Short in the garage and bisected her in the sink, then forced his then ten-year-old daughter Janice to accompany him when he disposed of the body. Instead, he began blogging daily about Los Angeles history for the, Harnisch attended a reunion of Gordons unit, the 2nd, Air Commandos, in Florida and interviewed a number of his fellow pilots. Knowlton claimed that a former member of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department told her that her father was considered a suspect in the case by that agency, but this claim is unsupported by the public documents that have been released in the case. Walter Bayley [ edit] Bayley was a Los Angeles surgeon who lived one block south of the vacant lot in which Short's body was found, until he left his wife in October 1946. Although the block had not yet been developed, there were houses nearby. People dismissed as suspects early in the investigation include Daniel S. Voorhees. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. Douglas asked Harnisch what he knew about the neighborhood. An interview with Bayleys former secretary was of particular interest. Best-selling author James Ellroy was eleveneight months after his mother was murderedwhen he received a copy of The Badge as a birthday present from his father. According to Cray, Guthrie drew police attention because of some sexually explicit letters and tabloid clippings he sent to a Northern California woman who he was allegedly stalking. Knowlton, Janice, with Michael Newton (1995). Harnisch points out that Short did not drink and the Gallery Bar didnt exist when she arrived at the hotel. Rudolph Walthers, known to have been acquainted with victim and also with suspect Hodel, claimed he had not seen victim in the presence of Hodel and did not believe that the doctor had ever met the victim. The Murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia; Los Angeles' Most Famous Unsolved Killing Research into the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, on Jan. 15, 1947, on South Norton Avenue, in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department's most famous open case. According to Knowlton, Short was a sex worker and a procurer of children for a child trafficking ring. Dr Walter Bayley who knew Elizabeth's older sister, Virginia. The secret DA Hodel/Black Dahlia Files locked in a DA's vault for more than fifty years reveal that not only was Dr. George Hodel the named prime suspect, but a joint task-force consisting of 18 detectives from the LAPD and DA offices conducted a live stakeout of his Hollywood residence 24/7 for six weeks. Id rather research than eat. This is not a story where the victim got justice, the family got closure, and the killer was captured and punished, he says. I still prefer Harnischs theory. Black Dahlia FAQ", "Heaven Is HERE! The homes are well kept, the lawns trimmed, and the shrubbery pruned. Short was not killed by Walter Bayley. My goodnessit was so white.. 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Detectives had planned to mail her fingerprints to the FBI in Washington, but an Examiner editor suggested using the papers Soundphoto machine, which was similar to a fax, to transmit the fingerprints to the Hearst Washington Bureau and then hand deliver them to the FBI. He had almost completed his second draft, Ellroy was interested in writing the introduction and was going to set up him up with his agent. Webbs story is like a mini-morality tale: A little girl doesnt listen to her mommy and makes this horrible discovery. Joe Barrett, a roomer at the Hodel residence cooperated as an informant. Hes a journalist, he lets the facts guide him, and he doesnt have any agenda other than the truth., Anne Redding, chair of the Justice Studies Department at Santa Barbara City College, has researched the homicide for more than thirty years and uses it as a centerpiece in her Study of Murder class. Customers called her the Black Dahlia, a play on the 1946 movie The Blue Dahlia, and because of her swirling black hair and black clothing. Dr. Walter Alonzo Bayley was a Los Angeles surgeon who lived in a house one block south of the vacant lot in which Elizabeth Short's body was found, until he left his wife in October 1946. De River and undercover LAPD officers met Dillon in Las Vegas for a couple of days and then proceeded to drive back to California. On his second draft he changed the point of view to first person, but he later realized the writing sounded too much like a parody of noir. He rode toward her, to prevent her from wandering into a busy street, when he was hit by a truck. Some writers contended the original detective team was inept. In reality, by the time Short arrived in Los Angeles in 1946, Bauerdorf had been dead for two years and the nightclub had been closed for a year. Guthrie was quickly cleared of involvement in the murder, but various authorities attempted to prosecute him, with minor success, on charges related to sending prohibited materials through the mail. When she lived in Hollywood for five months, a roommate was an aspiring actress and Short appropriated her tales of casting calls and studio gossip. While Fallon has an ebullient mien and manner, clearly enjoys discussing the bizarre nature of the case, and asks if Harnisch has explored his books movie potential. She said that she was with Doctor Hodel sometime prior to the murder and that she knew nothing about his being associated with the victim. Right from the beginning, this shows you the force of folklore, Harnisch says. Newspaper stories at the time implied that Short was a lesbian or bisexual, but the district attorney files state bluntly that Short "had no use for queers.". Harnisch further speculates that after killing her, Bayley placed Shorts body a mere 45-second walk from the house where his estranged family lived, because he wanted to frighten and intimidate them. He was checking her out. Nelson, Mark; Sarah Hudson Bayliss (2006). Bayley had an office a few blocks from the Biltmore Hotel, the last place where Short was seen alive. He had family connections to Elizabeth Short: his daughter knew Elizabeths sister and brother-in-law. Virginia, had married soldier Adrian West in 1945 at the home of Dr. Walter Alonzo Bayley at 3959 S. Norton one block from where the bride's sister's corpse would be found years later. On a recent sunny afternoon, Harnisch takes me on a stroll down Norton Avenue to illuminate some of his claims. Because of the complexity of the case, the original investigators treated every person who knew Elizabeth Short as a suspect who had to be eliminated. Some writers claimed she was lured to Hollywood from the East because she was an aspiring actress. So, then she might have called Walter Bayley, who was listed in the phone book, and they could have ended up in his office, which was a short walk from the Biltmore.. Two microphones were placed in this suspect's home (see the log and recordings made over approximately three weeks time which tend to prove his innocence. Former tenant of Elizabeth Short, Walter Bayley was questioned by police in relation to the slaying. He lives in a house befitting a man immersed in the past. A photograph of the suspect in the nude with a nude identified colored model was secured from his personal effects. Some have suggested that the secret Bayley's mistress was blackmailing him with was that he had performed abortions, then a crime. Reporters are at the Detective Bureau and it is not possible for the investigators to have confidential telephone conversation or even read mail without having some news reporter looking it over to see if it relates to this one.. Homicide was the elite LAPD unit and Harry Hansen and his partner were experienced professionals. Then another book, Black Dahlia Avenger, was released that blew everything out of the water, Harnisch says. What we do know about Elizabeth is that before her murder she was short on cash and constantly moving. Douglas explained that the street where the body was dumped was a curious choice for the killer. Also, Siegel was involved with Chicago Outfit starlet, and his on-off girlfriend Virginia Hill. When Dillon offered up intimate details about the crime, he was taken into custody by the undercover officers and transported to Los Angeles. Roberts is diplomatic when discussing theories about the case. They might have said if youre ever down and out in L.A. and need help, call the Bayley family. A story about Ruth Bayleys husband revealed something even more interesting to HarnischRuth had been married to Walter Bayley, a Los Angeles doctor, a surgeon with the skill to have performed the bisection of Short. Ellroy read Black Dahlia Avenger, was impressed by Hodels findings, and wrote an introduction to a subsequent edition of the book. He had the strange habit of watching surgery films at night. Walter Bayley. [5] Douglas also advised that the facial lacerations indicated personal anger towards the victim: Short would often falsely tell men that she had a son who had died tragically; Bayley did, in fact, have a son who was struck by a car and killed at age 11. It may well be that, barring the dramatic appearance of a written confession, the Dahlia will remain the stuff of Angeleno myth.. Harnisch, who was in touch with the Short family, received an email from one of her sisters who saw the pictures in a magazine article about Black Dahlia Avenger, and stated they were certainly not Short. During World War II, crime surged in L.A. and generated such interest that the Examiner ran a daily tally on the front page. The envelope included Shorts birth certificate, Social Security card, newspaper clippings, and a ten-year-old address book, which listed seventy-five men. Richardson responded: No deal, no suitcase. Donahoe reluctantly agreed, Richardson wrote in his book, For the Life of Me. While he was overseas and flying P-51s in the Burmese theater he wrote and proposed marriage. 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Dr. Walter Bayley - former chief of staff at LA County Hospital, fit the profile of who the police were looking for. We started calling all our supervisors, telling them this was something big.. When Bayley died in January 1948, his autopsy showed that he was suffering from degenerative brain disease. The Walter Bayley Theory The theory of Walter Bayley was devised by Larry Harnisch, an LA Times copy editor. Kay, however, later insisted that he did not agree with Hodels contention of a police cover-up. Harnisch perked up when he noticed that a witness to the ceremony listed an address that looked like Norton Avenue, but he wasnt sure because the certificate had been photocopied numerous times and was smudged and hard to read. Others wrote that the newspapers gave Short the sobriquet. Mrs. Bayley, who lives at 3959 South Norton Ave., asserts that while associated with Dr. Bayley in practicing medicine, Dr. Partyka threatened to expose and ruin him if he returned to his wife.. 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