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A supporto di questa tesi, ha più volte dichiarato sugli stessi [[forum]] che nella notte di [[Halloween|Hallowe'en]] del [[1946]] è stata "venduta" per la prima volta, alla tenera età di 9 anni, come [[prostituta|baby-prostituta]] ad una [[setta]] [[Satana|satanica]] di [[Pasadena]]. Successivamente, sarebbe stata "venduta" ad altre [[star]] dello spettacolo ed altri personaggi importanti dell'epoca (al momento delle accuse, tutti morti), come appunto Norman Chandler, [[Gene Autry]] (dalla Knowlton sempre chiamata erroneamente ''Autrey''), [[Arthur Freed]] e [[Walt Disney]]. Di lì a poco però venne [[ban|bannata]] dai forum che frequentava a causa del suo comportamento, giudicato ossessivo e "spammatorio".

Janice Knowlton è mortamuore [[suicidio|suicida]] nel [[2004]] per un [[overdose]] di farmaci, regolarmente prescritti.

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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. 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.

<!--'''[[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. 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.

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===Jack Anderson Wilson===

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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 Jan. 17, 1982.

<!--'''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 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.

''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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Other crime authors have suggested a linkage between the Short murder and the [[1945]] murder of 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan in [[Chicago]], who was also dismembered (and Short's body was discovered near Degnan Boulevard in Los Angeles). However, the so-called [["Lipstick Killer"]] [[William Heirens]] confessed to the Degnan murder and was in jail when Short's body was discovered, although some have contended that Heirens was innocent of the Degnan murder.

Author [[James Ellroy]], who wrote a fictionalized account of the murder, has publiclly endorsed at least two mutually exclusive solutions to the crime. Whenever confronted with this seeming contradiction at public appearances or by TV interviewers, Ellroy now refuses to discuss theories about the case. He now says the case is unsolved.-->

==I risvolti mediatici del caso==

Il caso della "Dalia nera", com'era prevedibile, ha ispirato molti [[scrittore|scrittori]], [[regista|registi]] e [[musicista|musicisti]].

A [[1975]] [[TV movie]] about the case, ''Who Is the Black Dahlia'' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073897] by [[Robert Lenski]] and starring [[Lucie Arnaz]] is a highly fictionalized version of the murder. Many details were changed because several people, including Short's mother and Red Manley, who brought Short from [[San Diego]] to Los Angeles, refused to sign releases for the studio.

Nel [[1975]], viene prodotto una [[fiction]] per la [[TV]] dal titolo ''Who is the Black Dahlia?'', diretta da [[Joseph Pevney]]. Molti dettagli della vicenda sono stati però modificati, a causa del rifiuto di molti (compresa la madre di Elizabeth e "Red" Manley) di rilasciare l'apposita [[liberatoria]].

[[John Gregory Dunne]] used the murder as a point of departure in his [[1977]] novel ''True Confessions,'' which was made into the [[1981]] film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083232/ ''True Confessions''] starring [[Robert Duvall]] and [[Robert De Niro]] with a screenplay by Dunne and his wife, [[Joan Didion]].

Nel [[1977]], il delitto ispira il [[romanzo]] "''True confessions''" di [[John Gregory Dunne]]. Nel [[1981]] viene tratto l'omonimo [[film]] (protagonisti [[Robert Duvall]] e [[Robert De Niro]]), premiato alla [[Biennale di Venezia]].

[[Neo-noir]] author [[James Ellroy]] based his [[1987]] book, ''[[The Black Dahlia (novel)|The Black Dahlia]] '' on the crime. A film by [[Brian De Palma]], based on the Ellroy novel, began production in [[Bulgaria]] in May [[2005]]. Also titled ''[[The Black Dahlia (film)|The Black Dahlia]]'', the movie will star [[Josh Hartnett]], [[Aaron Eckhart]], [[Scarlett Johansson]], [[Hilary Swank]], and [[Mia Kirshner]] as Elizabeth Short, and is planned for release in [[2006]].

Nel [[1987]], anche il famoso autore [[noir]] [[James Ellroy]] pubblica il suo [[romanzo]] ''[[Dalia Nera]]''. Anche da questo romanzo verrà tratto un [[film]], diretto da [[Brian De Palma]], la cui produzione è iniziata nel [[Maggio]] [[2005]] e che verrà pubblicato nel [[2006]]. Nel cast, ci saranno [[Josh Hartnett]], [[Aaron Eckhart]], [[Scarlett Johansson]], [[Hilary Swank]] e [[Mia Kirshner]] nel ruolo di Elizabeth Short.

A [[1988]] episode of the TV detective thriller ''[[Hunter (TV)|Hunter]]'' depicts Rick Hunter and Dee Dee McCall discovering a case similar to the Black Dahlia murder when a [[skeleton]] that has been cut in half is found during demolition of a building constructed in 1947. Hunter and McCall are joined by a [[retirement|retired]] detective who worked on the Elizabeth Short case.

Nel [[1988]], un episodio della serie televisiva ''[[Hunter]]'' mostra i [[detective|detectives]] protagonisti indagare su un caso simile a quello della "Dalia Nera", in cui uno [[scheletro]] tagliato a metà viene rinvenuto durante la demolizione di un edificio costruito nel [[1947]]. I [[detective|detectives]] sono aiutati per il caso da un altro [[detective]] in pensione che ha lavorato sul caso Short.

[[Take 2 Interactive]] published the [[Computer and video games|computer game]], ''Black Dahlia'', in [[1998]]. The puzzle-based adventure game tied Elizabeth Short's murders to [[Nazism|Nazis]] and [[occult]] rituals which the player had to investigate. The game features [[Dennis Hopper]], whose son-in-law was one of the company's owners, and [[Teri Garr]].

Nel [[1998]], la [[Take 2 Interactive]] pubblica il [[videogioco]] [[adventure]] ''Black Dahlia'', che lega i responsabili dell'[[omicidio]] ad ambienti [[Nazismo|nazisti]] e [[occultismo|occultisti]].

[[Max Allan Collins]] combined The Black Dahlia and [[Cleveland Torso Murderer|Cleveland Torso Murder]] in his Shamus Award-winning [[2002]] novel, ''Angel in Black'', featuring his character, private investigator Nathan Heller.

Nel [[2000]], la [[cantante]] ed [[attore|attrice]] [[Lisa Marr]] menziona la "Dalia Nera" nel suo pezzo ''In California'', tratto dall'album [[4 AM]].

In 2002, rock star and artist [[Marilyn Manson (person)|Marilyn Manson]] created a series of water color paintings based upon the murder.

Nel [[2001]], il [[jazz|jazzista]] [[Bob Belden]] produce un [[cd]] di 12 pezzi ispirati al caso di Elizabeth Short, intesi dall'autore come un tributo.

Bob Belden's [[2001]] [[CD]] ''Black Dahlia'' draws inspiration from the case for a moody, noir [[film score]] divided into 12 sections depicting her life, on a par with [[Jerry Goldsmith]]'s score for ''[[Chinatown (1974 movie)|Chinatown]]'' and David Shire's music for the film ''[[Farewell, My Lovely]]''.

Nel [[2002]], lo [[scrittore]] [[Max Allan Collins]] pubblica il suo romanzo "''[[Angelo in nero]]''", in cui combina la storia della "Dalia Nera" con quella del [[serial killer]] di [[Cleveland]] che lì operò negli [[Anni 1930|anni Trenta]].

Musician [[Lisa Marr]] also mentions the Black Dahlia in her song "In California" from the album ''4 AM''. This song was later covered by her former [[Cub (band)|Cub]] bandmate Neko Case.

Sempre nel [[2002]], la [[rockstar]] [[Marilyn Manson]] ha dipinto una serie di [[acquarello|acquerelli]] ispirati al delitto.

La band [[death metal]] [[The Black Dahlia Murder]] prende il suo nome proprio da questo delitto.

The [[Metal music|Death Metal]] band [[The Black Dahlia Murder]] takes its name from this infamous murder.-->

==Bibliografia==

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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''.

[[Categoria:Biografie|Short, Elizabeth]]

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