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. 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. Not to mention Black Dahlia's body was found in Hollywood, California. I happened to be working on the rewrite desk of the, Once Short was identified, reporters scurried to find out as much about her as possibleon deadline. After Black Dahlia Avenger was released, the book attracted so much attention, the LAPD brass allowed Hodel to present his theory to the Cold Case Unit. Black Dahlia FAQ", "Heaven Is HERE! [34] Another suspect is referred to simply as "Queer Woman Surgeon" in the Los Angeles district attorney's files on the case. OK, but so were a lot of people. . Jemison concluded in his summary: See supplemental reportsand hear recordings, all of which tend to eliminate this suspect.. It turns out that T.J.s wife wouldnt write to him, so Charlie got Short to write him and send him the photo., Short was working as a waitress in Massachusetts when she received the news of the crash. 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. In the final report to the grand jury, dated February 20, 1951, Lt. Frank Jemison of the Los Angeles County D.A. This is a story without an ending., Featured illustration by Eleonore Hamelin, courtesy The Delacorte Review. and water and told me that he did not believe the person who committed the murder was a serial killer. [18] See statement of Dorothy Hodel,[19] former wife). The truth is she came out to Southern California for a man. Id rather research than eat. The envelope included a letter using cut-out words from newspaper clippings that said, "Here is Dahlia's belongings." Knowlton claimed that on Halloween 1946, she was sold at the age of nine as a child prostitute to a Pasadena satanic sex cult. About a dozen patrol officers, sergeants, command officers, and detectives descended upon the scene, in addition to numerous reporters and photographers. He talks to a retired LAPD detective whose 3 year investigation led to the stunning conclusion that his own father committed the murder. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Jim Murray was a rewrite man for the Examiner at the time and sat next to Sutton. Halfway up the block, the mother stopped in horror at something she saw in one of the lots. . It is the coldest of cold cases, a case so old the detective in charge of the investigation wasnt born at the time of the homicide. We start at the house of Betty Bersinger, the woman who found the body. She drifted around the country during the next year-and-a-half until her death, never held another job, and often stayed briefly with friends and acquaintances. . He was checking her out. [33] While Severed says that homicide Detective John St. John was about to "close in" on Wilson based on the material Gilmore provided, St. John told the Herald-Examiner in the same article that he was busy with other killings and would review Gilmore's claims when he got time. One of the pilots at the reunion let me copy this and told me the story, Harnisch says. One theory held that, because Short had checked her baggage, including her clothing and cosmetics, a week before she died, she must have been staying with another woman (who presumably would have lent Short the essentials) during the intervening time. O'Reilly had a history of sexually motivated violent crime. When I asked him if he preferred Harnischs or Hodels suspect, he snapped, I wont talk about that anymore. The pathologist concluded that she had died from blows to the head and the loss of blood from the gashes in her face. refused his request, and all he has is the death certificate. They recommended Heading Home, a Boston emergency shelter for homeless women and low-income families. Maybe he figures out shes lying, it pissed him off, and he erupts. So now they both have something in commondead sons. At about 10 a.m., she was pushing her three-year-old daughter in a strollernot just any stroller, but a Taylor-Tot stroller, she was proud to point outto a repair shop to pick up her husbands shoes. [16] Popular accounts of the Black Dahlia case often portray Hansen as having connections to organized crime, but there is no evidence of this. I think there was another unknown serial killer that he has also stated was likely his father. Within the minute I had written what may have been the first sentence ever written on the Black Dahlia case. Yet the loose chain of circumstance he assembles to prove his fathers guilt is less convincing still. Harnisch did not grow up in Los Angeles with iterative reminders of the Dahlia case. The location of the lesion and the cause as well as when it occurred can have a significant impact on the behavioral manifestations caused as a consequence of the lesion. He never imagined that he would unearth a murder scenario and a suspect who would intrigue LAPD detectives. After tracking down and interviewing Betty Bersinger, the woman who found the body on Norton Avenue in South Los Angeles, Harnisch discovered that one of the first myths that had accreted around the Dahlia story did not match the reality. There were more than a half-dozen editions a day and editors prodded reporters for scoops so editions could be updated. She claimed that she worked as a waitress while living in L.A, yet she never held a job here. During this time his marriage dissolved, he moved to a small apartment, and he faced the depressing reality of spending holidays away from his wife and son. Knowlton's sister has since stated on Amazon.com's listing for Daddy Was The Black Dahlia Killer that after the publication of Knowlton's book, Tamar Hodel, daughter of George Hodel and sister of Steve Hodel, contacted Knowlton and the two women remained "email pals for several years. Author James Ellroy endorsed Harnisch's theory in the 2001 film James Ellroy's Feast of Death. A very fine surgeon. In the book, Knowlton, a former professional singer and owner of a public relations company, alleged that her father had been having an affair with Elizabeth Short and that Short was staying in a makeshift bedroom in their garage, where she suffered a miscarriage. Short spent about a month at the apartment, briefly dating a number of men before she met a pipe clamp salesman by the name of Robert Red Manley. John Gregory Dunne employed a fictional account of the Dahlia murder in his 1979 novel True Confessions, which portrayed the victim as a prostitute. Eventually, he found the owner of the house on 3959 Norton Avenue, the woman on the deed who paid the property taxesRuth Bayley. Finally, he spent afternoons in the dim subbasement of the Los Angeles County Hall of Records, leafing through plat books where property deeds were recorded. Dr. Walter Alonzo Bayley. New England has the Boston Strangler. [9][10] The publication of the Long Beach Police The Rap Sheet said that a former member of LA's Gangster Squad investigating the case believed that Leslie Dillon was the killer and when Dillon returned to his home state of Oklahoma was able to avoid extradition to California because Dillon's relative was the governor of Oklahoma. 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. I still dont have all the details Id like and Im still hoping to get more. The murder of Elizabeth Short has never been solved, despite the work of many detectives and law enforcement officers. Walter Bayley wasn't on any suspect list or sought out by police when Elizabeth Shorts body was found, but, should he have been? After fingering his father for the two murders, Hodel later claimed he was one of the Twentieth Centurys most prolific serial killers. The murder investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department was the largest since the murder of Marion Parker in 1927, and involved hundreds of officers borrowed from other law enforcement agencies. The original was filed in Sacramento, the state capital, so Harnisch, still not wanting to get his hopes up, sent a check and ordered a copy. When he asked her about Elizabeth Short, she became wary. The D.A. At times, he felt as if he was chasing a shadow. frwood2@comcast.net. Flipping through filesmuttering, Hansen, Hansen, where is Hansen?he locates a folder, fishes out testimony, and points to the relevant passage. Welles was never a suspect in the investigation. [31] Manley, who had been discharged from the army for mental disability, subsequently suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and claimed to be hearing voices. After her body was found in the South Los Angeles lot, a savannah of-ankle high weeds and yard clippings, the afternoon Herald-Express immediately dubbed the killing the Werewolf Murder, but soon found a more evocative name. Richardson responded: No deal, no suitcase. Donahoe reluctantly agreed, Richardson wrote in his book, For the Life of Me. Then there are the real nut jobs who claim to have solved the case based on astrological number or pyramids., She is pestered so often that her captain has advised her not to do any more interviews because they take too much time away from her current investigations. Once there, Dillon and De River traveled to San Francisco to unsuccessfully look for Connors. He read a history of the ranch and interviewed a group of scholars at Cal Poly Pomona who had conducted a detailed study of the areas architecture and history. Los Angeles mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was allegedly a suspect in the murder investigation of Short. Traced the address to a prominent surgeon named Dr. Walter Bayley In 1946 Dr. Bayley had started to exhibit signs of early onset Alzheimers, had abandoned and disinherited his family, and lived with a younger . I think that a medical man committed that murder. Hodel contends that Harnischs suspect, Walter Bayley, had a secret, but it wasnt murder. A neighbor of the family, Bob Pacios, told Harnisch that Short was by far the prettiest of the five sisters.. He has interviewed more than one hundred-fifty people, ranging from the first officer on the scene, to family members of Short, to a former boyfriend, to detectives assigned to the investigation, to the woman who discovered the body. The envelope included Shorts birth certificate, Social Security card, newspaper clippings, and a ten-year-old address book, which listed seventy-five men. Homicide was the elite LAPD unit and Harry Hansen and his partner were experienced professionals. Black Dahlia Suspects - Current Suspects - Walter Bayley. Thats why he was so interested in talking to her. Walter Bailey may refer to: Walter Bailey (lawyer), state prosecutor in South Carolina; . 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. 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. Harnisch decided to start from the beginning, when the area was part of a Spanish RanchoRancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tiejera. During his reporting for the fiftieth anniversary story he interviewed legendary FBI profiler John Douglas. He was later exonerated of all charges, though. to various online forums wherein the Black Dahlia case was discussed, posted an article[26] to a Usenet group in August 1998 in which she names Dr. George Hodel (see above) as a suspect in the case. 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. He wrote to medical school professor, a board certified psychiatrist, the author of an article in a psychiatric journal on the condition, and related what he knew about Bayley and the Dahlia murder. If you read the book without delving into it too closely, I can see why you might buy into what he claims. Douglas explained that the street where the body was dumped was a curious choice for the killer. His research began when he was a copy editor at the Los Angeles Times and he was writing a 1997 fiftieth anniversary story on the killing. She wasnt. Harnisch interviewed Fickling but is reluctant to share exactly what he said because so many people have plagiarized his blog and he wants to hold some things back for his book. They dated for about a week and then she joined him on a sales trip as he headed up to L.A. The other photograph remains unidentified. Walter Bayley. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. The book was made into a widely-panned Brian De Palma film. The LAPDs investigative files for the Short murder are stored in a four-drawer metal cabinet located in a locked storage room on the fifth floor of the Police Administration Building. He visited the downtown library and photocopied all the microfilmed Dahlia stories from the three other major newspapers in Los Angeles at the timethe Examiner, the Herald-Express, and the Daily News. For decades, the gruesome death of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short remained a mystery. They were unable to obtain fingerprints from the envelope because it had been brushed with gasoline. 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. Bayleys son was killed on January 13 and Short might have been killed on that exact date, Harnisch says, because she disappeared on January 9th and her body was found on January 15th. Steve Hodel, many years later, brought a . He holds true to the three things that the investigators speculated about the murderer, the murder and the crime scene. According to Knowlton, Short was a sex worker and a procurer of children for a child trafficking ring. He had family connections to Elizabeth Short: his daughter knew Elizabeths sister and brother-in-law. Yet another theory was that the murder may have been an attempt to frame Siegel by Jack Dragna, who wanted revenge for Siegel's attacks on Dragna's business interests since his arrival in the 1930s. Hes a journalist, he lets the facts guide him, and he doesnt have any agenda other than the truth. She later wrote to him: Perhaps Matt was my man. Jack Webb, who created and starred in, Harnisch created a timeline of when reporters, photographers, and detectives arrived by studying the shadows on the crime scene photographs. He also claims/accuses his father of being the Zodiac killer and the lipstick murderer. On a recent sunny afternoon, Harnisch takes me on a stroll down Norton Avenue to illuminate some of his claims. [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. Over the course of their correspondence, De River began to believe that Connors did not exist and that Dillon had committed the murder himself. And the parts fit better.. The cop/son is a little questionable, though. Dillon offered up one of his friends, Jeff Connors, as a likely suspect. Although Id uncovered nothing significant, I found all this L.A. history fascinating.. Then another book. Still, according to Don Wolfe's book The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles,[37] Siegel was the actual murderer. [22] Steve Hodel maintains a website wherein he continues to update the case with additional discovered information.[23]. Sensational and sometimes inaccurate press coverage, as well as the nature of the crime, focused intense public attention on the case. [11], In 2004, De River's daughter, Jacque Daniel, published a book called The Curse of the Black Dahlia, in which she expressed her belief that her father had been unfairly maligned for the Dillon affair.[12]. They couldnt prove it now., Later in the recording, however, he announces that he is probably being bugged, and Lopez speculates that Hodel was taunting investigators. Wilson was a lifelong petty criminal and alcoholic who was interviewed by author John Gilmore while Gilmore was researching his book Severed. Dumais, a 29-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey, confessed to Short's murder a few weeks after it occurred. They threw hundreds of cops and investigators borrowed from other departments at this murder. The first thing we thought was that it was a mannequin, that someone was playing a trick on us because there was no blood, Fitzgerald told Harnisch. Bersinger and her husband had recently purchased their home for $11,000 in a middle-class neighborhood of primarily newly married couples with young children. But it makes a neat package, doesnt it?, In the 2001 documentary James Ellroys Feast of Death, Harnisch presents his theory of the case during a dinner hosted by Ellroy, who has studied the murder for decades and has an encyclopedic knowledge of L.A. crime. 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[4] Although critics of Harnisch's theory question whether Bayley's mental and physical condition at the time of the murder would have been consistent with the commission of this type of crime, the original investigators' theory that the body was cut in half because the killer wasn't strong enough to move it intact partially answers this objection. Some researchers argue that the Sowden house is where Short was held and killed. Those who claimed to have identified the killer, he felt, were deluded. He didnt know her name and this was the pre-internet days, so he couldnt simply Google her. Ellroy read Black Dahlia Avenger, was impressed by Hodels findings, and wrote an introduction to a subsequent edition of the book. The first was that Walter was 67 years old at the time of the murder (Wikipedia). I dont want other people following my trail. Both Harnisch and Hodel say they have no interest in pursuing Eatwells theory of the case because the extensive D.A. The following acquaintances of Hodel were questioned and none were able to connect the suspect with murder: Fred Sexton, 1020 White Knoll Drive; Nita Moladero, 1617 North Normandy [Normandie]; Ellen Taylor 5121 Fountain Avenue; Finlay Thomas, 616 South Normandy [Normandie]; Mildred B. Colby, 4029 Vista Del Monte Street, Sherman Oaks, this witness was a girlfriend of Charles Smith, abortionist friend of Hodel, Turin Gilkey, 1025 North Wilcox; Irene Summerset, 1236 North Edgemont; Norman Beckett, 1025 North Wilcox; Ethel Kane, 1033 North Wilcox; Annette Chase, 1039 North Wilcox; Dorothy Royer, 1636 North Beverly Glenn. The murder of Elizabeth Short has spawned numerous books, countless newspaper articles, several movies, in addition to video games and podcasts. Thats the least I can do for them and for Elizabeth Short, someone who changed my life.. The drastic personality shift at the end of Bayleys life wasnt anything I could have ever dreamed of happening, she told him. A former member of the Womens Army Corps told detectives, Elizabeth Short stole my man so I killed her and cut her up. One confessor was asked by skeptical detectives to pick out Short from a series of photographs. [20], Author James Ellroy endorsed Steve Hodel's theory in 2004,[21] but has since refused to discuss the case publicly. The family has gone through so much and all writers have ever done is rip them off. Harnisch is writing a book about the case, but the homicide and the investigation are only part of his focus. 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. 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. I noticed that dark hair and this white, white form., I glanced to my right and saw this very dead, white body, she told Harnisch, her voice cracking. Welles applied for his passport on January 24, 1947, the same day the killer mailed a packet to Los Angeles newspapers. In August, 1945, five days before V-J Day, Gordon was killed in a crash and Short never overcame her grief. Harnisch theorizes that Bayleys neurological deterioration contributed to his alleged violence against Short. 1951). 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. Ill never say Im a hundred percent sure. Larry Harnisch's Site on Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. Severed and many other sources based on Severed erroneously claim that Short and Bauerdorf knew each other in Los Angeles, supposedly because they were both hostesses at the same nightclub. As the case continues to command public attention, many more people have been proposed as Short's killer, much like London's Jack the Ripper murders. Mary Pacios who grew up near Short in Massachusetts and wrote Childhood Shadows, suggested that Orson Welles, who appeared to saw a woman in half during a magic trick, was the killer. He attributes at least twenty-five murder to George Hodel, including the eight Northern California Zodiac killings, in addition to homicides in Chicago, Texas, the Philippines and a dozen in Southern California. And when you run into coincidences in a homicide investigation, you want to go, Wait a minute. And thats what it made me say, Wait a minute., Rick Jackson, who spent a decade in LAPDs elite Robbery-Homicide Division and was the assistant officer in charge of the departments Cold Case Unit before he retired, is familiar with Harnischs theory. 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