On the morning of January 15, 1947, a mother walking her child through a Los Angeles park made a horrifying discovery: the body of a young naked woman severed cleanly in half at the waist. The ...

I just can’t imagine someone doing that to another human being.” In the press, Short became known as “The Black Dahlia,” and her case “took on a life of its own,” Carr said. “Early on, I think for two ...

Hollywood's Golden Age spawned some of the biggest and brightest stars to illuminate the screen, but for many, that light was snuffed out before its time. The actors and actresses who defined the ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, a Massachusetts-born woman whose death would be turned into one of Hollywood’s most durable myths, ...

Early one winter morning, a mother out walking her young child saw something strange in a vacant lot. She thought it was something bad, and so she hurried to a nearby house and called the police. The ...