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Si sono autoaccusate dell'[[omicidio]] almeno 60 persone - in larga parte [[uomo|uomini]], anche se ci furono anche alcune [[donna|donne]]. Dai documenti ufficiali degli investigatori della Polizia di [[Los Angeles]] risultano però 22 sospetti "principali".

==IAlcuni 22dei principali sospettati==

===Walter Alonzo Bayley===

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Per evitare lo scandalo, Chandler si sarebbe rivolto un gangster locale, Bugsy Siegel, perchè ammazzasse la donna. Tale ipotesi è però in aperto contrasto con quanto stabilito dalle indagini della Polizia di [[Los Angeles]] e dall'[[autopsia]]. La Short infatti non ha mai lavorato come [[prostituta]] e soprattutto, a causa di una malformazione [[vagina|vaginale]], non poteva avere rapporti sessuali.

<!--===Joseph A. Dumais===

'''Joseph A. Dumais''', [[soldato]] di 29 anni di stanza in [[New Jersey]], è stato uno dei primi ad auto-accusarsi del delitto poche settimane dopo che questo è avvenuto. Tutta la stampa di [[Los Angeles]] ha entusiasticamente sostenuto l'ipotesi, fin quando si è scoperto che Dumais era alla sua base di appartenenza in [[New Jersey]] al momento dell'omicidio. Gli investigatori, a differenza della stampa, lasciarono cadere immediatamente l'ipotesi. Durante gli [[Anni 1950|anni '50]], Dumais è stato arrestato più volte per reati minori ed ogni volta ha continuato ad auto-accusarsi del delitto Short.

'''Joseph A. Dumais''': Joseph Dumais, a 29-year-old soldier stationed at [[Fort Dix, New Jersey]], confessed to the murder a few weeks after it occurred. Although this "breakthrough" was quickly dismissed by the original investigators, the Los Angeles press covered enthusiastically until it was revealed that Dumais had remained in Fort Dix at the time of the murder. Dumais was cleared of any involvement in the crime, although he continued to claim he killed Elizabeth Short each time he was arrested for various offenses, well into the 1950s.

===Woody Guthrie===

*'''[[Woody Guthrie]]''': The folksinger was one of the many suspects in the murder, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's files and ''Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie'' written by Ed Cray and published in 2004 by [[W.W. Norton]], Page 331. According to Cray, Guthrie drew police attention due to some sexually explicit letters and lurid tabloid clippings he sent to a northern California woman with whom he was smitten. The mailings disturbed their recipient so much that she showed them to her sister in Los Angeles, who contacted the police. Guthrie was quickly cleared of involvement in the murder, but various authorities attempted to prosecute him, with minor success, on charges related to sending prohibited materials through the mails.

'''Woody Guthrie''', cantante [[musica folk|folk]], è stato iscritto nel registro degli indagati per aver [[molestia|molestato]] una donna [[California|californiana]] di cui era innamorato con lettere minatorie e contenenti pesanti allusioni sessuali. Gli investigatori hanno ipotizzato un suo coinvolgimento nel caso Short, ma non sono state trovate prove sufficienti. Guthrie è stato comunque posto sotto processo per [[molestia|molestie]].

*'''George Hodel''' : Dr. George Hodel came under police scrutiny in October 1949, when his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar, accused him of molesting her. Hodel was tried and acquitted of these charges in December 1949. The molestation case led the LAPD to included Hodel, a physician specializing in public health (not a surgeon), among its many suspects in the Dahlia case. Authorities put Hodel under surveillance from Feb. 18 to March 27, [[1950]] to ascertain whether he was implicated in the murder. In the final report to the grand jury dated Feb. 20, [[1951]], Lt. Frank Jemison of the [[Los Angeles County]] district attorney's office wrote:

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*'''George Hodel''' : Dr. George Hodel came under police scrutiny in October 1949, when his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar, accused him of molesting her. Hodel was tried and acquitted of these charges in December 1949. The molestation case led the LAPD to included Hodel, a physician specializing in public health (not a surgeon), among its many suspects in the Dahlia case. Authorities put Hodel under surveillance from Feb. 18 to March 27, [[1950]] to ascertain whether he was implicated in the murder. In the final report to the grand jury dated Feb. 20, [[1951]], Lt. Frank Jemison of the [[Los Angeles County]] district attorney's office wrote:

::Doctor George Hodel, M.D., 5121 Fountain Ave., at the time of this murder had a clinic at East 1st Street near Alameda. Lillian Lenorak [note: a mental patient later confined to the state hospital at Camarillo] 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 girlfriends. Tamara Hodel, 15-year-old daughter, stated that her mother, Dorothy Hodel, had told her that her father had been out all night on a party the night of this murder and said: "They'll never be able to prove I did that murder." Two microphones were placed in this suspect's home[http://www.lmharnisch.com/recordings/record001.html] (see the logs and recordings made over approximately three weeks' time which tend to prove his innocence. See statement of Dorothy Hodel, former wife[http://www.lmharnisch.com/recordings/dhodel001.html]). Informant Lillian Lenorak has been committed to the State Mental Institution at Camarillo. Joe Barrett, a roomer at the Hodel residence cooperated as an informant. A photograph of the suspect in the nude with a nude identified colored model was secured from his personal effects. Undersigned identified this model as Mattie Comfort 3423 1/2 S. Arlington, RE public 4953. She said that she was with Doctor Hodel sometime prior to the murder and that she knew nothing about his being associated with victim. Rudolph Walters, known to have been acquainted with victim and also with suspect Hodel claimed that he had not seen victim in the presence of Hodel and did not believe that the doctor had ever met the victim. The following acquaintances of Hodel were questioned and none were able to connect this suspect with this murder--Fred Sexton, 1020 White Knoll Drive; Nita Moladoro, 1617 1/2 N. Normandie; Ellen Taylor, 5121 Fountain Ave.; Finley Thomas, 616 1/2 S. Normandie; Mildred B. Colby, 4629 Vista Del Monte St., Sherman Oaks, this witness was a girlfriend of Charles Smith, abortionist friend of Hodel; Tarin Gilkey, 1025 N. Wilcox; Irene Summerset, 1236 1/4 N. Edgmont; Norman Beckett, 1025 N. Wilcox; Ethel Kane, 1033 N. Wilcox; Annette Chase, 1039 N. Wkilcox; Dorothy Royer, 1636 N. Beverly Glenn. See supplemental reports, long sheets and hear recordings, all of which tend to eliminate this suspect.

:In 2003, George Hodel's son, former LAPD Homicide Detective Steve Hodel, published a book claiming his father, who died in 1999, had in fact committed the Black Dahlia murder as well as a host of unsolved murders over the better part of two decades. Steve Hodel says he came up with the idea when he saw two pictures in his dead father's photo album that he claims resemble Short, although Short's family insists they are not of her and many other observers have failed to see the resemblance.[http://laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=45474]. Steve Hodel claims he was unaware at the time that his father had been a suspect in the case, although his sister Tamar was friends with ''Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer'' author Janice Knowlton and case documents make it clear that his parents and many of their associates knew the senior Hodel was a suspect. After reviewing the information presented in Steve Hodel's book, Head Deputy D.A. Stephen Kay ([[Manson Family]] prosecutor) proclaimed the case "solved," but others have noted that Kay, who has since retired, formed this conclusion by treating Steve Hodel's many disputed assertions as established fact. Detective Brian Carr, the LAPD officer currently in charge of the Black Dahlia case, said in a televised interview that he was baffled by Kay's response, adding that if he ever took a case as weak as Steve Hodel's to a prosecutor he would be "laughed out of the office." Author [[James Ellroy]] endorsed Steve Hodel's theory in the foreword to the paperback version of Hodel's book.[http://www.blackdahliaavenger.com/Forewordfnl.doc]

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*'''George Knowlton''': Little reliable information is available on George Knowlton, except that he lived in the Los Angeles area at the time of the Black Dahlia murder and died in an automobile accident in 1962. In the early 1990s, George Knowlton's daughter, Janice Knowlton, began claiming that she had witnessed her father murdering Elizabeth Short, a claim she based largely on "recovered memories" that surfaced during psychological therapy. The Los Angeles Times said in 1991:

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:Ms. Knowlton also made claims prefiguring those of ''Black Dahlia Files'' author Donald Wolfe. In 1999, she claimed in various public fora that Norman Chandler participated in a cover-up of the murder. Ms. Knowlton claimed that on Halloween 1946 she was sold as a child prostitute to a Pasadena devil-worshiping sex cult at the age of 9 (''Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer'', Page 128). She frequently alleged that she was sold as a child prostitute to 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]]. Knowlton became so abusive in her [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/browse_thread/thread/8697985d89f9cf0d/6597d7598ac16723?lnk=st&q=jgk61+pacbell&rnum=2#6597d7598ac16723Usenet Usenet posts] that Pacbell canceled her account in 1999.

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*'''Robert M. "Red" Manley''': The last person seen with Elizabeth Short before her disappearance, Manley was the LAPD's top suspect in the first few days after killing. After two polygraph tests and a sworn alibi, Manley was set free.[http://www.sandiegomag.com/issues/jan97/dahlia.shtml]

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*'''[[Orson Welles]]''': In her 1999 book, Mary Pacios, a former neighbor of the Short family in Medford, MA, suggested filmmaker Orson Welles as a suspect.[http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/08/16/dahlia] Pacios bases this theory on such factors as Welles' volatile temperament and his obsession with cutting-in-half as indicated by the visual clues Pacios claims can be found in the crazy house set he designed for scenes that were later deleted from a film Welles was making around the time of the murder. Pacios also cites the magic act Welles performed to entertain soldiers during WW II. She believes that the bi-section of the body was part of the killer's signature and an acting out of the perpetrator's obsession. Welles applied for his passport on January 24, 1947 the same date the killer mailed a packet to Los Angeles newspapers. Welles left the country for an extended stay in Europe ten months after the murder. According to Pacios, witnesses she has interviewed say that both Welles and the victim frequented Brittingham's restaurant in Los Angeles during the same time period. Welles was never a suspect in the original investigation. Pacios now maintains a web site containing a great deal of information and official documents about the Black Dahlia case, but only a short section on Welles' supposed involvement. [http://blackdahlia.info]

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*'''Jack Anderson Wilson''' (also known as '''Arnold Smith'''): Wilson was a life-long petty criminal and alcoholic who was interviewed by author John Gilmore while Gilmore was researching his book ''Severed''. After Wilson's death, Gilmore named Wilson as a suspect due to his alleged acquaintance with Short. Prior to Wilson's death, however, Gilmore made an entirely different claim to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in a story appearing [http://lmharnisch.com/herex_820117.html Jan. 17, 1982]. 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. As reliable sources of information about the case, such as the FBI files and portions of the Los Angeles district attorney files, have become publicly available, statements about Short and the murder attributed to Wilson in ''Severed'' and supposedly tying him to the crime have not been borne out as accurate. ''Severed'' also claims Wilson was involved in the murder of Georgette Bauerdorf.[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/dahlia/suspect_6.html?sect=7] ''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. In reality, by the time Short arrived in Los Angeles in 1946, Bauerdorf had been dead for two years and the nightclub had been closed for a year.

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'''Nota''': Il sito dell'FBI riporta erroneamente il nome ''Elizabeth Ann Short''. In realtà, la vittima si chiama semplicemente ''Elizabeth Short''.

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