The nickname alone, he says, was not enough. This was post-World War II Los Angeles and the whole noir thing is very big now. Take away any one element and nobody would care today. One, it’s unsolved two, the nickname and three, the horrible nature of the crime.
When asked why there is still an obsessive focus on the case among crime buffs, he says, “I’ll defer to the theory of the original detectives, who came up with three reasons. 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. 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. Then there are the real nut jobs who claim to have solved the case based on astrological number or pyramids.” I get a lot of calls from people with repressed memories, who tell me the killer was their dad, or their uncle, or their neighbor, and on and on. “Some are from people who’ve done a ton of research and have a theory. “After all these years, I still get about one call a week,” says LAPD Detective Mitzi Roberts, who has been in charge of the case for a decade. 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.
Unlike other crimes, there is no statute of limitations on murder and a homicide investigation is never closed until it is solved.
A Michigan death metal band is called The Black Dahlia Murder. At the Biltmore Hotel, where Short was last seen, the bar serves a Black Dahlia cocktail. There is Black Dahlia lingerie, Black Dahlia perfume, Black Dahlia T-shirts, and a number of other schlocky items. The horrific homicide has sparked such enduring fascination that the crime has been transformed into kitsch. The murder of Elizabeth Short has spawned numerous books, countless newspaper articles, several movies, in addition to video games and podcasts.
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