One of the first suspects was Walter Bayley. Everyone wants this to be a noir morality play, Harnisch says. They deserve to have somebody tell the story accurately. Enchephalomalacia is a structural lesion in the brainsoftening of brain tissue, the psychiatrist wrote to Harnisch. If she met him on the pretext of getting help, she would have pulled the sob story about having a son who died. A photograph of the suspect in the nude with a nude identified colored model was secured from his personal effects. Her anonymity was soon transformed into notoriety and her case evolved into the nations most infamous unsolved murder. Dr. George Hill Hodel, Jr. came under police scrutiny in October 1949, when his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar, accused him of molesting her. Harnisch figures she was just trying to get rid of him. As a result, this is a story that fades to conjecture. He was present when Spaulding overdosed and had burnt some of her papers before police were called. Based on these recovered memories, Knowlton published Daddy Was The Black Dahlia Killer with veteran crime writer Michael Newton in 1995. [5], Donald Wolfe's 2005 book The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles names Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1945-1960, as a suspect in the murder. The Black Dahlia Murder Case Lecture 3April 26, 2022 Frank Wood. Short, who was only twenty-two when she died, was raised in the Boston suburb of Medford, the third of five girls. 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. As Harnisch was fruitlessly attempting to track down Barbara Lindgren, he ventured to create as thorough a biography of Bayley as was possible in those days before genealogical websites and online searches. Or that, at the very least, she was promiscuous. [32], According to Los Angeles district attorney files, Dr. Patrick O'Reilly was a medical doctor who knew Short through nightclub owner Mark Hansen. [16] Popular accounts of the Black Dahlia case often portray Hansen as having connections to organized crime, but there is no evidence of this. Some writers claimed she was lured to Hollywood from the East because she was an aspiring actress. The two photos Hodel was convinced was Short, the photos that launched his investigation, were soon called into question. Lopez studied the files and read Hodels book, but he remained unconvinced. 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. Dr Walter Bayley who knew Elizabeth's older sister, Virginia. Ill never say Im a hundred percent sure. She also claimed that nineteen other people, including many of her classmates, had molested her. 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. 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. 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]. 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. He had so much additional material that when the story ran, he decided to write a book. Harnisch was devastated. They dated for about a week and then she joined him on a sales trip as he headed up to L.A. A Michigan death metal band is called The Black Dahlia Murder. Dillon expressed reservations about Los Angeles, and chose Las Vegas instead. Later, Hodel says, Ellroy pissed backwards, recanted his earlier endorsement, and told interviewers, maybe I was fooled. I interviewed Ellroy recently for another story I was writing, and we chatted amiably for about twenty minutes. - Los Angeles' Most Gruesome Murder Ever Elizabeth ("The Black Dahlia") Short's Murder Still Unsolved. Black Dahlia Suspects - Current Suspects - Walter Bayley. Sensational and sometimes inaccurate press coverage, as well as the nature of the crime, focused intense public attention on the case. The envelope included a letter using cut-out words from newspaper clippings that said, "Here is Dahlia's belongings." . Kay, however, later insisted that he did not agree with Hodels contention of a police cover-up. He never imagined that he would unearth a murder scenario and a suspect who would intrigue LAPD detectives. investigation, which was initiated as a result of the Dillon debacle, placed him in San Francisco at the time of the killing. He hoped to discover the link between the killer, the crime scene, and the neighborhood. 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. The picture, which is signed: To T.J. Love and luck always, Beth, reveals Shorts gracious nature. After two polygraph tests and a sworn alibi, Manley was set free. 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. The Dahlia case helped Ellroy cope with his own tragedy and his frequent nightmares, he wrote, enabling him to experience the horror and grief over Shorts killing that he hadnt been able to express over his own mothers murder. Lillian DeNorak [Lenorak] who lived with this doctor said he spent some time around the Biltmore Hotel and identified the photo of victim Short as a photo of one of the doctor's girl friends. 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. The D.A. Knowlton claimed that on Halloween 1946, she was sold at the age of nine as a child prostitute to a Pasadena satanic sex cult. He was one of the first serious suspects in the case and he was still a prime suspect as late as 1951. Fickling and Short spent some time in a hotel in Hollywood, but the romance fizzled. A self-published book by a former LAPD Vice detective wrote in 1950 that an abortion doctors office was located in a building on West 6th. 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. 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. Harnisch pulls a dusty cardboard box out of his office, fishes out a Manila folder, removes a copy of the marriage certificate, and points to address3959 Norton Avenue. Only the Robbery-Homicide Division captain and Detective Mitzi Roberts, who is in charge of the case, have the keys to the storage room and the cabinet, which is stuffed to the gills, she says. I still dont have all the details Id like and Im still hoping to get more. Bayley had a degenerative brain disorder, which could have resulted in violent behavior. 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. In the surviving transcripts of microphone recordings, Hodel was heard making highly incriminating statements. On January 24, 1947, a suspicious manila envelope addressed to "The Los Angeles Examiner and other Los Angeles papers" was discovered. 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. He had no criminal record and no known history of violence. The aspiring actress was just 22 years old and worked as a waitress in the City of Angels. O'Reilly had a history of sexually motivated violent crime. Wilson was never a suspect until Gilmore brought him to the attention of authorities. There have been countless bizarre unsolved murders in Los Angeles and most of them have been forgotten. As you can see, Harnisch says, its an easy walk from the crime scene to Walter Bayleys houseonly one block. Hansen was also linked to three other suspects, each of whom was a medical doctor: Dr. Patrick S. O'Reilly, Dr. M. M. Schwartz, and Dr. Arthur McGinnis Faught. 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. On January 15, 1947, the "Black Dahlia" was discovered murdered in Los Angeles. He told Harnisch in an interview that he was still appalled and the incident was sharply etched in his memory., Wain called the mother and asked all these questions and took all these notes, Murray recalled. Within the minute I had written what may have been the first sentence ever written on the Black Dahlia case. In August, 1945, five days before V-J Day, Gordon was killed in a crash and Short never overcame her grief. Black Dahlia Elizabeth Short Murder Suspect Dr. Walter Bayley Home House Near Body Discovery Los Angeles CA USA 2021. Although this "breakthrough" was quickly dismissed by the original investigators, the Los Angeles press covered it enthusiastically until it was revealed that Dumais had been at Fort Dix at the time of the murder. Walter Alonzo Bayley was a surgeon that lived close to Elizabeth Short. Roberts is diplomatic when discussing theories about the case. I have a little pet theory of my own. Now every January 15thhe sends a check. The nickname alone, he says, was not enough. Harnisch has studied the case off and on for twenty-four years. 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.. The marriage certificate indicated there was a link between the Short family and South Norton Avenue. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. They threw hundreds of cops and investigators borrowed from other departments at this murder. This is what he theorized: Lindgren was the matron of honor at the marriage of Virginia Short and Adrian West, who Harnisch learned quite a lot about from interviewing their son, Elizabeth Shorts nephew. Wolfe hypothesizes that Wilson was present at Short's murder and claims a connection between Wilson and gangster Bugsy Siegel through some small-time gangsters Wilson supposedly associated with. This seemed very strange, Harnisch says. [34] Another suspect is referred to simply as "Queer Woman Surgeon" in the Los Angeles district attorney's files on the case. Harnisch theorizes that Bayley's neurological deterioration contributed to his alleged violence against Short. Nevertheless, Westminster, California police took her claims seriously enough to dig up the grounds around her childhood home there, looking for evidence. Despite three witnesses testifying that they had seen Hodel having sex with Tamar, he was acquitted in December 1949. Hodel lies, Dr. Walter Bayley, a surgeon who lived in the neighborhood did it. Then he had to determine who was still alive. He contradicted almost every element of Fowlers account. In 2009, Hodel published Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel, in which he claimed that his father was also the Zodiac Killer. When I asked him to explain, he hesitated and then refused. Her body was found in a weed-webbed lot in South Los Angeles, surgically severed in two, washed and scrubbed, posed, and completely drained of blood. The picture, which is signed: To T.J. Love and luck always, Beth, reveals Shorts gracious nature. It may well be that, barring the dramatic appearance of a written confession, the Dahlia will remain the stuff of Angeleno myth.. Walter Bayley wasn't on any suspect list or sought out by police when Elizabeth Shorts body was found, but, should he have been? Both Harnisch and Hodel say they have no interest in pursuing Eatwells theory of the case because the extensive D.A. There was zero corruption in this unit. 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. 1951). His daughter was friends with Elizabeth Short's sister but it isn't certain that he ever met Elizabeth. I decided Id report the story; Id go out and interview people., To know who to interview, he needed to conduct more research. He was later exonerated of all charges, though. Wilson figures in Donald Wolfe's book The Mob, The Mogul, And The Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles. 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. At the time of the Black Dahlia murder, George Hodel lived in the famous Sowden House which he had bought. His father, George Hodel Jr., was a dashing physician who hobnobbed with actors and artists, lived in a house designed by Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wrights son, in Hollywood, and operated a downtown venereal disease clinic. I base that conclusion on the way the body was bisected.It is unusual in the sense that the point at which the body was bisected is, according the eminent medical men, the easiest point in the spinal column to severhe hit it exactly.. [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. A very fine surgeon. A Los Angeles Times reviewer called the book a piece of meretricious, revolting twaddle, which amounts to evidence manufacturing The reviewer for the L.A. Weekly wrote, Why would a retired LAPD homicide detective with twenty-four years of experience write such gobbledygook. A Washington Post writer was the only one to mention an alternative theory of the case: A more likely scenario, however, is the one put forth by Larry Harnisch. Keller also said that Hansen held elaborate parties at his Hollywood boarding house and members of the Los Angeles Police Department along with the Chief of Detectives Thad Brown and his brother Finis Brown attended and later aided Hansen in a cover up. Multiply getting details like that with a thousand other details and youll see why its taking me so long to finish the book.. He had family connections to Elizabeth Short: his daughter knew Elizabeths sister and brother-in-law. If you read the book without delving into it too closely, I can see why you might buy into what he claims. [17] The trial led the LAPD to include Hodel, a physician specializing in sexually transmitted diseases, among its many suspects in the Dahlia case. When asked about an element of the investigation, he is often reluctant to answer, and instead says, Let me check my files. He then lunges out of his chair, disappears into his office, roots through the photocopied newspapers clippings, inquest reports, and investigative files, and returns with a precise answer. 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. 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. Walter Bayley Bayley was an L.A. surgeon who lived just one block away from the location where police discovered Short's body. 5121 Fountain [Franklin] Avenue, at the time of this murder had a clinic at East First Street near Alameda. When a Dahlia enthusiast heard about Harnischs investigation, he sent him a box filled with photocopies of newspaper articles about the crime, a transcript of the inquest that contained most of the autopsy notes, a homemade documentary, a copy of Shorts grades from elementary school, and a dim photocopy of the marriage certificate of her oldest sister, Virginia Short. Author James Ellroy endorsed Harnisch's theory in the 2001 film James Ellroy's Feast of Death. 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. Although the block had not yet been developed, there were houses nearby. At present the following suspects are discussed by various authors and experts: 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. In addition, one of the Los Angeles homicides Hodel attributes to his father was extensively investigated by the Unit, Lambkin says; the case was solved, the killer was identified, and he was not George Hodel. In October 1946, Walter walked out on his family and filed for a divorce. He has been unable, however, to interest law enforcement authorities in following up on his claims. Ill never say Im a hundred percent sure. 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. Jemison wrote in his summary that an acquaintance of Hodel claimed that one of his girlfriends was Short, but added that the informant was later committed to the State Mental Institution at Camarillo. He worked at the Tuskegee Institute, and practiced . 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. 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. He eventually pared the list down to about a dozen of the people he believed were the most important to interview. He sipped his V.O. Severed also claims Wilson was involved in the murder of Georgette Bauerdorf. In fact, police never could account for Dillon's whereabouts between January9 and January15, 1947. 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. He was 67 and had no record of crime or violence. He read a story about the case in a True Detective-style magazine in which De River was quoted, and wrote to De River regarding his theories on the case. 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. Undersigned identified this model as Mattie Comfort, 3423 South Arlington, Republic 4953. And he spends his evenings watching surgery films. You son of a bitch, Murray said, imitating Sutton. In one of Short's last letters home, her older sister Virginia claimed she had written that a movie director was going to give her a screen test. I feel a responsibility. Jemison concluded in his summary: See supplemental reportsand hear recordings, all of which tend to eliminate this suspect.. BLACK DAHLIA EPISODE TWENTY WALTER BAYLEY - YouTube The last of the prime suspects in the Black Dahlia murder, Walter Bayley and his partner Alexandra von Partyka, are. Jack Webb, who created and starred in Dragnet, wrote The Badge eleven years after the murder, one of the first books that chronicled the crime. Thats why he was so interested in talking to her. Harnish, solemn and staid, appears offended, and tells Fallon hes not interested and wouldnt allow a film to be made that treated Short like a piece of meat.. John Gregory Dunne employed a fictional account of the Dahlia murder in his 1979 novel, Harnisch now had a connection between a witness to Virginia Shorts wedding and the crime scene. At times, he felt as if he was chasing a shadow. Bayleys lesion and drastic personality change could be the result of, Frontotemporal dementia from a series of little strokes, Fallon says. When he asked her about Elizabeth Short, she became wary. Harnisch strides through the hotel, built in 1923, and stops at the bar, which serves a cocktail known as the Black Dahlia, made with citrus vodka, Kahlua, and Chambord. The drastic personality shift at the end of Bayleys life wasnt anything I could have ever dreamed of happening, she told him. 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. [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." Hundreds of people were considered suspects and thousands were interviewed by police. Although the vast majority of suspects in the case were male, authorities did not rule out the possibility of a female killer. 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. In her 2000 book, Mary Pacios, a former neighbor of the Short family in Medford, Massachusetts, suggested filmmaker Orson Welles as a suspect. Then another book, Black Dahlia Avenger, was released that blew everything out of the water, Harnisch says. Some are from people whove done a ton of research and have a theory. We start at the house of Betty Bersinger, the woman who found the body. He died on January 16, 1986. They werent just chit-chatting. They spent one night at a motel, but it was an erotically uneventful night, a reporter wrote. Walter Bailey may refer to: Walter Bailey (lawyer), state prosecutor in South Carolina; . On January 15th. 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. Using letters clipped from a page of movie ads, he addressed the envelope. It was very difficult to be subjected to all that negative exposure.. 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. 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. FBI profiler John Douglas said the violence perpetrated on Short's body suggests personal anger towards the victim. In a September 2006 television interview, Carr added, "I don't have the time to either prove or disprove Hodel's investigation. The prime suspect is a creepy doctor obsessed with a surrealist artist who is a suspect in several other murders. The pathologist concluded that she had died from blows to the head and the loss of blood from the gashes in her face. It was so white and separated in the middle. The clips at the, The marriage certificate indicated there was a link between the Short family and South Norton Avenue. Harnischs theory makes a lot of senseI really like it, she says. I cant remember it word for word, but my lead went pretty much like this: The nude body of a young woman, neatly cut in two, at the waist, was found early today on a vacant lot near Crenshaw and Exposition Blvd. I tore the copy out of my typewriter and took it up to the city editor, who was eager to get the story moving into type. It later comes out that she was promiscuous, perhaps even a lady of the night. LAPD Police Chief William Worton told the Los Angeles Examiner that there was absolutely no case against Hansen. 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. When I asked him if he preferred Harnischs or Hodels suspect, he snapped, I wont talk about that anymore. London has Jack the Ripper. She was heading south on Norton Avenue, negotiating the shards of broken glass on the sidewalk that lined the vacant lots. He was checking her out. Other letters from senders who claimed to be the killer were delivered to the LAPD and the papers, but they were never authenticated. I think that a medical man committed that murder. 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.". They recommended Heading Home, a Boston emergency shelter for homeless women and low-income families. 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. Former colleagues and relatives expressed to Harnisch how shocked they were at how Bayleys personality drastically changed toward the end of his life. 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. Norton Avenue, she told him. Larry Harnisch's Site on Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. Yes, there was some corruption in the department, but that was mostly in Vice. Further, the files indicate that O'Reilly's right pectoral had been surgically removed, which investigators found similar to the mutilation of Short's body. 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. St. John, who wore Badge No. During an interview Fowler quoted Napoleon: History is an agreed upon lie. Fitzgerald contended that when he arrived there were no reporters or photographers. Harnisch is writing a book about the case, but the homicide and the investigation are only part of his focus. My goodnessit was so white. 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