My stomach turned when I came to photos of the corpses of Elizabeth Shortand Jeanne FrenchFlipping past those photos, a number of smaller mug shots slipped out of the stack, and looking up at me, his eyes dark and narrow, was Dr. George Hodel. Fowler claimed there were no officers to prevent reporters and photographers from tromping through the crime scene and interfering with the evidence. Hodels book contains numerous assertions about his father and the Dahlia case, some that are authenticated, some that are speculative; nonetheless, the book received widespread attention and immediately eclipsed Harnischs theory. 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. However, there is no evidence that Bayley performed abortions or associated with anyone involved in performing abortions. He didnt know her name and this was the pre-internet days, so he couldnt simply Google her. Once Short was identified, reporters scurried to find out as much about her as possibleon deadline. When Bayley died in January 1948, his autopsy showed that he was suffering from a degenerative brain disease. The drive for violence and sexuality can come up and get worse and worse. [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]. She wasnt. 1557, and M.D. Detective David Lambkin, who was head of the Unit at the time, said that Hodel lost credibility as a result of the numerous other murders he attributed to his father. 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. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. Note that Short's autopsy by Dr. Frederick Newbarr found no evidence of pregnancy: "The uterus is small, and no pregnancy is apparent." About the only thing Harnisch and Hodel agree on is the innocence of Leslie Dillon who author Piu Eatwell identifies as Shorts killer in her 2018 book, Black Dahlia Red Rose. Both Harnisch and Hodel say they have no interest in pursuing Eatwells theory of the case because the extensive D.A. And his medical office, where he specialized in performing hysterectomies and mastectomies, was only a few blocks from the Biltmore Hotel. At the time, Harnisch, says, the surgeon was suffering from a severe form of dementia. 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. [citation needed], Knowlton became somewhat infamous within online Black Dahlia discussion communities for her insistence that the LAPD was engaged in a conspiracy to discredit her story in order to conceal their knowledge of George Knowlton's involvement. The envelope included a letter using cut-out words from newspaper clippings that said, "Here is Dahlia's belongings." The aspiring actress was just 22 years old and worked as a waitress in the City of Angels. In the summer of 1946, she landed in Long Beach in an attempt to resume a romance with another pilot, Gordon Fickling, who she had met at the beginning of the war. Newton, Michael (2009) The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes, second edition. Kurtis also probes the theory that the killer was a surgeon named Walter Bayley. He was checking her out. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. His evidence was simply not convincing, Lambkin says. I dont want other people following my trail. Finally, the murder has been the most frustrating pursuit of all. Jack Anderson Wilson was supposedly interviewed in the early 80's. 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. 1563. In 2003, he was identified by Los Angeles Times reporter Larry Harnisch as a possible suspect in the infamous Black Dahlia case. Walter Bayley wasn't on any suspect list or sought out by police when Elizabeth Shorts body was found, but, should he have been? What keeps me going is that I promised myself I would clear up all the lies and myths and try to reclaim Elizabeth Short from the Dahlia freaks. I decided to do the story like it was breaking news, like a second day story. Webbs story is like a mini-morality tale: A little girl doesnt listen to her mommy and makes this horrible discovery. The clips revealed that Bayley had left his wife and family in 1946 because of his burgeoning relationship with a female physician he worked with, Alexandra Partyka. [25] They found nothing to tie George Knowlton to any crime. On March 5, 2004, Janice Knowlton died of an overdose of prescription drugs in what was deemed a suicide by the Orange County, California, coroner's office.[29]. When asked why there is still an obsessive focus on the case among crime buffs, he says, Ill defer to the theory of the original detectives, who came up with three reasons. I have a little pet theory of my own. Using letters clipped from a page of movie ads, he addressed the envelope. Harnisch did not grow up in Los Angeles with iterative reminders of the Dahlia case. Harnisch obtained Bayleys death certificate and one of the causes of death is listed as encephalomalacia. Lane had lived in Los Angeles at the time of the murder and was employed by Columbia Studios, a favorite hangout of Short's, as a maintenance man. 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. When he finally tracked down Barbara Lindgren, his initial investigation into Bayley was almost complete. Los Angeles iconic homicide is not known by the moniker of the perpetrator, but the victimThe Black Dahlia. [5], In devising his theory, Harnisch consulted retired FBI profiler John E. Douglas, who advised that the very public location of the dump site was significant, since the killer had the ability to transport the body to a more remote site, where it may not have been discovered; the site was one block away from property owned by Bayley's estranged wife Ruth. St. John, who wore Badge No. [34] Another suspect is referred to simply as "Queer Woman Surgeon" in the Los Angeles district attorney's files on the case. 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. Dillon later filed a $100,000 claim against the City of Los Angeles, but dropped the lawsuit after it emerged he was wanted by Santa Monica police for robbery. Donahoe balked. Will Fowler, a reporter for the Examiner at the time, told Harnisch that he had been the first reporter at the scene and had arrived before the police. The book was made into a widely-panned Brian De Palma film. 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. 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. At the time of the Black Dahlia murder, George Hodel lived in the famous Sowden House which he had bought. 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. He never imagined that he would unearth a murder scenario and a suspect who would intrigue LAPD detectives. 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 . 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. Author James Ellroy endorsed Harnisch's theory in the 2001 film James Ellroy's Feast of Death. Although he was never a suspect in the case, many doctors and others with medical . During an interview Fowler quoted Napoleon: History is an agreed upon lie. Fitzgerald contended that when he arrived there were no reporters or photographers. 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. It is theorized that Dr Bayley's degenerative brain disorder which symptoms include homicidal ideation/behaviour in even pacifists. One of the first suspects was Walter Bayley. Hodel later acknowledged that that one of the pictures was of someone else, but still insists the second photo was Short. 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. While he was overseas and flying P-51s in the Burmese theater he wrote and proposed marriage. They couldn't prove it now. 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. Scope and Contents Dr. Bayley's USC School of Medicine diploma, California Board of Medical Examiners certificate, and letter and . His research, he believed, was redeemed. This story is a co-publication with The Delacorte Review. My goodnessit was so white.. He doesnt bring in all this superfluous stuff to prove his case. Bayleys lesion and drastic personality change could be the result of, Frontotemporal dementia from a series of little strokes, Fallon says. This interview and the, When he finally tracked down Barbara Lindgren, his initial investigation into Bayley was almost complete. He also claims/accuses his father of being the Zodiac killer and the lipstick murderer. Hundreds of people were considered suspects and thousands were interviewed by police. Within the minute I had written what may have been the first sentence ever written on the Black Dahlia case. 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. In 1999, she claimed in various public forums that Norman Chandler participated in a coverup of the murder. Gordons death sent her spiraling into a deep depression. Reporters interviewed an acquaintance of Short and discovered that she had checked luggage that contained all her belongings at a bus station in Los Angeles. If you read the book without delving into it too closely, I can see why you might buy into what he claims. Knowlton, Janice, with Michael Newton (1995). Former colleagues and relatives expressed to Harnisch how shocked they were at how Bayleys personality drastically changed toward the end of his life. His signature was unique he told me, combining a number of homicidal elements that he had not been seen since the murder. Dr Walter Bayley who knew Elizabeth's older sister, Virginia. Dillon was living in Florida at the time of his correspondence with De River, but had formerly lived in Los Angeles. 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. In recent years, the efficacy of profiling has been called into question, but in the 1990s, many considered it a valuable investigative tool. Unlike the other pigeons she was trying to con, he would have actually asked how he died because he was a doctor. He contradicted almost every element of Fowlers account. They threw hundreds of cops and investigators borrowed from other departments at this murder. The drastic personality shift at the end of Bayleys life wasnt anything I could have ever dreamed of happening, she told him. This seemed very strange, Harnisch says. 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. 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On How We Imagine Alien Lifeforms, How Lower-Class Innovation, Like, Changes the Langwage, A Shed of Ones Own (in Upstate New York), Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself, Girls to the Front: A Reading List of Provocative Feminist History. His research takes us to a deceased surgeon named Walter Bayley. Thats only a block from where Shorts body was found, he says, running his finger along the address. In 1920, the son was riding a bike when he saw his younger sister was about to step off the sidewalk. During the war, Short, who had asthma, moved to Florida to escape the harsh New England winters, and met a pilot, Major Matt Gordon Jr. A photograph of the suspect in the nude with a nude identified colored model was secured from his personal effects. Bayley was never a suspect in the case, but many medical doctors and others with medical training were. He was later exonerated of all charges, though. Hodel contends that Harnischs suspect, Walter Bayley, had a secret, but it wasnt murder. 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. Black Dahlia Suspects - Current Suspects - Walter Bayley. It was very difficult to be subjected to all that negative exposure.. Lopez studied the files and read Hodels book, but he remained unconvinced. He died on January 16, 1986. So, its clear that Bayley has a connection to the street where Short is killed. Multiply getting details like that with a thousand other details and youll see why its taking me so long to finish the book.. According to the files, at the time of the murder O'Reilly was a good friend of Hansen and frequented Hansen's nightclub. Harnisch now had a connection between a witness to Virginia Shorts wedding and the crime scene. After fingering his father for the two murders, Hodel later claimed he was one of the Twentieth Centurys most prolific serial killers. 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. The truth is she came out to Southern California for a man. Everyone wants to fuck with it.. 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.. An Examiner rewrite man, Wain Sutton, used a heartless tabloid ploy to obtain background. Life. Wilson figures in Donald Wolfe's book The Mob, The Mogul, And The Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles. In a September 2006 television interview, Carr added, "I don't have the time to either prove or disprove Hodel's investigation. This launched Hodels investigation. So now they both have something in commondead sons. On January 15, 1947 a woman walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of Norton St., in Liemert Park, Los Angeles caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a department store mannequin lying in the weeds on the side of the street; the top half separated from the lower half. We walk one more block to the home where Bayleys estranged family lived at the time, a single story home with gravel instead of a front lawn, edged with purple and yellow lantana, and a broad front porch. . The neighborhood was all-white in 1947, but now is predominantly African American with some Japanese residents who have sculpted bonsai trees in their front yards. He simply wanted to tell a good crime story and to create an accurate biography of Short, tracing her life from small town Massachusetts, to California, to her death. Thats the least I can do for them and for Elizabeth Short, someone who changed my life.. Hes a surgeon with mental problems who underwent a drastic personality shift. Ellroy read Black Dahlia Avenger, was impressed by Hodels findings, and wrote an introduction to a subsequent edition of the book. Hodel and Walter Bayley seem to be the best known suspects. He had no criminal record and no known history of violence. Los Angeles mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was allegedly a suspect in the murder investigation of Short. 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. Instead, he left the body in a busy residential area. The cop/son is a little questionable, though. As Harnisch delved deeper into Shorts murder, he wanted to make a donation on her behalf and consulted family members. We start at the house of Betty Bersinger, the woman who found the body. The case was dropped owing to lack of evidence, but documents were later found that indicated Spaulding was about to publicly accuse Hodel of intentionally misdiagnosing patients and billing them for laboratory tests, medical treatment, and prescriptions not needed. He wanted to interview Short and her husband in an attempt to determine the identity of Barbara Lindgren, but they were dead. Text is available under the Creative . 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. 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. Unlike other crimes, there is no statute of limitations on murder and a homicide investigation is never closed until it is solved. During World War II, crime surged in L.A. and generated such interest that the Examiner ran a daily tally on the front page. Dunne and his wife, Joan Didion wrote the screenplay for the movie, which starred Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Once there, Dillon and De River traveled to San Francisco to unsuccessfully look for Connors. 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. Everyone wants this to be a noir morality play, Harnisch says. [6] In a complicated scenario involving multiple perpetrators, Wolfe claims that Chandler impregnated Short while she was working as a call girl for the notorious Hollywood "madam" Brenda Allen, which led to her murder at the hands of gangster Bugsy Siegel. He rode toward her, to prevent her from wandering into a busy street, when he was hit by a truck. After his death, his widow alleged that his mistress knew a "terrible secret" about Bayley and was made the main beneficiary upon his death as a result. 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. 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.". He also met with a retired LAPD captain who gave him access to material that had belonged to the head of the Homicide Division at the time of Shorts murder, and obtained the recorded interviews of two Dahlia detectives, neither of which has ever been made public. Harnisch attended a reunion of Gordons unit, the 2nd Air Commandos, in Florida and interviewed a number of his fellow pilots. Steve had seen two pictures in his father's photo album that he claims resemble Short, although her family insists they are not of her and many other observers have failed to see the resemblance. Harnisch is writing a book about the case, but the homicide and the investigation are only part of his focus. He was in no shape to carry a fully intact body around. This was one of the last big stories in Los Angeles pre-television and the competition among the four papers drove the coverage. Some have suggested that the secret Bayley's mistress was blackmailing him with was that he had performed abortions, then a crime. Harnisch interviewed Shorts youngest sister, Muriel, who told him she has avoided reading anything about the murder, although her daughters had read a few books because after all she was their auntbut my poor mother. He wanted to interview Short and her husband in an attempt to determine the identity of Barbara Lindgren, but they were dead. At the time, the street was undeveloped because the war had stopped construction, and Short was found on an empty lot, but now at the location there is a beige stucco house with Italian cypresses shading the lawn. It was so partisan, he says, picking at his chicken pot pie. I feel a responsibility. "The things that she is saying are not consistent with the facts of the case. A neighbor of the family, Bob Pacios, told Harnisch that Short was by far the prettiest of the five sisters.. This is one thing I have that nobody else has. He later sued the department. [36] The reason why he was a suspect is unclear, especially since Siegel was more concerned with the Flamingo Hotel and Casino at the time and he was known to be a "lady's man" not a "lady's killer." O'Reilly had a history of sexually motivated violent crime. The secretary referred to was Ruth Spaulding, who police had previously suspected of being murdered by Hodel in 1945. Steve Cooley about the case, he said that Kay had presented Hodels theory in a closed-door presentation, but he wasnt close to being convinced. Still, he allowed Lopez to peruse the previously unreleased 1949 grand jury files, which chronicled an investigation headed up by D.A. He had so much additional material that when the story ran, he decided to write a book. Dr. Walter Bayley considered the most likely suspect in Black. The mannequins were used in the "house of mirrors" set for The Lady from Shanghai, a film Welles was making with his ex-wife Rita Hayworth around the time of the murder. 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. He wanted the cops to open them at the Examiner office. He eventually pared the list down to about a dozen of the people he believed were the most important to interview. In October 1946, Walter walked out on his family and filed for a divorce. [15] Hansen's great granddaughter Helen Alexis Yonov was interviewed for Piu Eatwell's upcoming documentary on the Black Dahlia for NBC Peacock Productions. 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 D.A. An eerie grin was slashed along the edges of her mouth. Harnisch figures she was just trying to get rid of him. 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. Our hearts and soul were wrapped up in himI have seen much of deathbut I never understood it before. A few years before his death, Bayley disinherited the two people living on 3959 South Norton Avethe daughter who Bayley might have blamed for his sons death and his estranged wife, who was supposed to supervise the girl. He was one of the first serious suspects in the case and he was still a prime suspect as late as 1951. The clips at the Times and phone book directories from the 1940s were no help in locating Lindgren. Joe Barrett, a roomer at the Hodel residence cooperated as an informant. He is grateful he began his research decades ago, long before the case generated renewed interest in the Twenty-First Century, because many of those he interviewed are now dead. 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. 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. Thats a lot less glamorous.. After experimental film director Kenneth Angers book Hollywood Babylon II, was published in 1984, featuring lurid crime-scene photos that exposed the grotesque nature of the crime to a new generation of readers, it created wide-spread interest in the case. 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. I think that a medical man committed that murder. What we do know about Elizabeth is that before her murder she was short on cash and constantly moving. He had family connections to Elizabeth Short: his daughter knew Elizabeths sister and brother-in-law. Walter was our only sonthe only child of our flesh and blood, Bayley said in a newspaper story. 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