At 10 AM. January 15, 1947. Betty Bersinger, a local housewife, was walking down Norton Avenue in Los Angeles when she saw something disturbing in an empty lot on the street. When she first saw the corpse, Bersinger said that the body was so white that at first she assumed it had to be a mannequin. But when she realized that what she was actually looking at was a severed corpse, she ran to contact the authorities.The body Bersigner found was Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the Black Dahlia. Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. For episode 16 as you may have guess we are going to look into the strange and mysterious death of Elizabeth short or know more commonly as the black dahlia. The murder that has grown in infamy as the decades have fell away, a cold case and mystery that has plagued law enforcement and ultimately will never be solved.So with out further a do please sit back and relax for more dark history. Sources Black Dahlia, Red Rose, Piu Marie EatwellSevered: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder, John GilmoreThe Black Dahlia Files, Donald WolfeBlack Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder, Steve Hodelhttps://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/the-black-dahliahttps://www.biography.com/.amp/news/black-dahlia-murder-mysteryLinksEmail: darkhistory2021@outlook.comTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21