77th anniversary of the Black Dahlia Murder

A nobody whose name we'll never know

George Hodel. He was a prime suspect to such an extent that his home was tapped by LAPD. There’s transcripts of his wire tapping and on it he beats a woman, I believe his secretary. She was a witness to something.

He was a great admirer of surrealist art and specifically Man Ray. Her body was cut up in such a way that a skilled surgeon could only do. Hodel wasn’t a surgeon but he did do surgery in medical school.

Her body was displayed in such a way as to mimic photos Lovers and Minotaur by Man Ray.

R2, that's all crap made up by Steve Hodel

R3 it was absolutely not made up. You’re an imbecile. There are documents that prove he was the prime suspect.

I think it was Hodel too. At least he's the best suspect.

then there's the movie The Black Dahlia with Hilary Swank as a femme fatale and Josh Hartnett as a spunky cop

He's worth the price of admission.

In the 1970s there was a TV-movie called [italic]Who was the Black Dahlia?[/italic[] starring Lucie Arnaz. I always imagined her mother watching it at home while swozzling down bourbon and croaking out to Gary Morton, "Yeah, that's how they did it, all right--they bisected her entire body..."

No, Steve Hodel made up a bunch of shit because he really wants to pin the murder on his dad. Who may have been a shitty father, but he was not a murderer

This does a good job of debunking Steve Hodel's claims

It was such a creepy crime, and it influenced scores of murder stories since (particularly the Hannibal Lecter novels) by posing the corpse so dramatically after her body was so grotesquely mutilated.

Orson Welles

Woody Guthrie is another celebrity who has been proposed as the killer, as has been Bugsy Siegel and LA Times publisher Norman Chandler.

R6, yeah, The Black Dahlia movie has some redeeming features -- I watch it every few years. Josh Hartnett looks great in 1940's clothes and the film has Oscar-nominated cinematography.

R6, I remember that film being AWFUL, but yes, Josh Hartnett was at peak hotness.