Some writers contended the original detective team was inept. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. Some have suggested that the secret Bayley's mistress was blackmailing him with was that he had performed abortions, then a crime. She later wrote to him: Perhaps Matt was my man. There have been countless bizarre unsolved murders in Los Angeles and most of them have been forgotten. She was heading south on Norton Avenue, negotiating the shards of broken glass on the sidewalk that lined the vacant lots. The Walter Bayley Theory The theory of Walter Bayley was devised by Larry Harnisch, an LA Times copy editor. In addition to Short, Hodel claimed in the book that his father also killed Jeanne French a month later, which was called by the newspapers the Red Lipstick Murder because of the writing on the body. Eventually, he found the owner of the house on 3959 Norton Avenue, the woman on the deed who paid the property taxesRuth Bayley. It is the coldest of cold cases, a case so old the detective in charge of the investigation wasnt born at the time of the homicide. Police put Hodel under surveillance from February 18 to March 27, 1950, to ascertain whether he could be implicated in the murder. While some of the original 24 suspects were discounted, new ones have arisen. [5] Douglas also advised that the facial lacerations indicated personal anger towards the victim: Short would often falsely tell men that she had a son who had died tragically; Bayley did, in fact, have a son who was struck by a car and killed at age 11. Harnisch had a series of building blocks that led to a viable suspect; now he had to stitch them together and create a plausible scenario. During his reporting for the fiftieth anniversary story he interviewed legendary FBI profiler John Douglas. However, there is no evidence that Bayley performed abortions or associated with anyone involved in performing abortions. As a result of wide-spread corruption in the LAPD, Hodel claimed, the murders were covered up and never solved. 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.. 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. [34] Another suspect is referred to simply as "Queer Woman Surgeon" in the Los Angeles district attorney's files on the case. Roberts is diplomatic when discussing theories about the case. Unlike other crimes, there is no statute of limitations on murder and a homicide investigation is never closed until it is solved. The clips at the Times and phone book directories from the 1940s were no help in locating Lindgren. 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. Black Dahlia Suspects - Current Suspects - Walter Bayley. But there was still another component to Walter's crumbling life and that had to do with his health. They thought there was something fishy. 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. Reporters interviewed an acquaintance of Short and discovered that she had checked luggage that contained all her belongings at a bus station in Los Angeles. Other letters from senders who claimed to be the killer were delivered to the LAPD and the papers, but they were never authenticated. My goodnessit was so white. Hurrying to the Times morgue, he searched the clips for Ruth Bayley and what he eventually found shifted his rolefrom writer to sleuth. It may well be that, barring the dramatic appearance of a written confession, the Dahlia will remain the stuff of Angeleno myth.. A beautiful girl who is an up and coming actress, brutally tortured and murdered. The Los Angeles Times wrote in 1991: Los Angeles Police Detective John P. St. John, one of the investigators who had been assigned to the case, said he has talked to Knowlton and does not believe there is a connection between the Black Dahlia murder and her father. Tamars mother, however, testified that a psychiatrist had told her that her daughter was addicted to telling fantastic stories. Walter also disinherited his wife, who had remained at the house on South Norton Avenue, and their other daughter, Beatrice. Steve Hodel completely dismisses Harnischs theory in Black Dahlia Avenger. But covering up a murder corruptiondefinitely not.. 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. And he spends his evenings watching surgery films. At the end of the conversation, she implored Harnisch in an anguished tone not to tell anyone how to find her. Walter Alonzo Bayley was a surgeon that lived close to Elizabeth Short. If you read the book without delving into it too closely, I can see why you might buy into what he claims. When he studied the marriage certificate, he discovered the couple was married in Inglewood. A Michigan death metal band is called The Black Dahlia Murder. As Harnisch delved deeper into Shorts murder, he wanted to make a donation on her behalf and consulted family members. ", Knowlton also made claims prefiguring those of Black Dahlia Files author Donald Wolfe. From studying the microfilmed, John Jigsaw John St. John was assigned the Dahlia file after Hansen retired and he kept control of the case until he pulled the pin in 1993. So now they both have something in commondead sons. He had so much additional material that when the story ran, he decided to write a book. The files indicate that O'Reilly had once been married to the daughter of an LAPD captain who was also a bisexual.[14]. His research, he believed, was redeemed. Everyone wants to fuck with it.. The location between the Bayley house and the crime scene, his medical ability, his obsession with watching surgery films, and some other things Harnisch came up with make Bayley an interesting suspect. 1557, and M.D. Another theory was that the assailant bisected Short's body because he or she was not strong enough to move it in one piece. Hodel recently talked to me about the book during lunch at a restaurant perfectly in tune with the citys infamous noir-era homicideHollywoods Musso & Frank Grills, opened in 1919, which still serves dishes that were on the menu when Short was murdered: grilled calves liver, Welsh rarebit, liver and onions, lamb kidneys, and oyster stew. As the case continues to command public attention, many more people have been proposed as Short's killer, much like London's Jack the Ripper murders. [31] Manley, who had been discharged from the army for mental disability, subsequently suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and claimed to be hearing voices. She began following Harnischs blog about the case, which he launched after writing the anniversary story, and was immediately impressed. If she met him on the pretext of getting help, she would have pulled the sob story about having a son who died. Read more about this topic: Black Dahlia Suspects, Current Suspects, Thy gowns, thy shoes,thy beds of roses,Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,Soon break, soon withersoon forgotten,In folly ripe,in reason rotten.Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?1618), In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. I absolutely love research, he says. He had the strange habit of watching surgery films at night. 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 Streetthe same building as Bayleys office. He was always trying to help people. Los Angeles mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was allegedly a suspect in the murder investigation of Short. The living room in his 1910 bungalow is cluttered with his great-grandmothers china cabinet and mirrors; his grandfathers tool chest, which he uses as a coffee table; his mothers piano; a Maxfield Parish lithograph that his grandfather gave his grandmother when they married; and on the mantle his grandparents candelabras and an antique German wind-up clock. A neighbor of the family, Bob Pacios, told Harnisch that Short was by far the prettiest of the five sisters.. 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. 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. During the Depression, her father, who built miniature golf courses, suffered a financial setback and abandoned the family when Short was six. Some speculated that Dillon's ex-wife Georgie Stevenson was related to former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, who contacted the Oklahoma governor on Dillon's behalf, although none of these relations have been verified. Hodel later acknowledged that that one of the pictures was of someone else, but still insists the second photo was Short. Ten days after Shorts body was found, the killer mailed an envelope of Shorts belongings to the Examiner. She also claimed that nineteen other people, including many of her classmates, had molested her. Short was not killed by Walter Bayley. 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 rode toward her, to prevent her from wandering into a busy street, when he was hit by a truck. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Jim Murray was a rewrite man for the Examiner at the time and sat next to Sutton. Although the block had not yet been developed, there were houses nearby. [deleted] 8 yr. ago Thanks for the video link! He also spends the evening wandering around the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, where Short was last seen, paying homage to her and ruminating about the case. An Examiner rewrite man, Wain Sutton, used a heartless tabloid ploy to obtain background. He also identified Short's handbag purse and one of her shoes after they were discovered in a trashcan on January 25, 1947, several miles from the murder scene. Detective Frank Jemison. The deceased child's birthday was January 13; Short's body was discovered on January 15. Harnisch removes from his files a 1948 Examiner article on the dispute over Bayleys will and shows it to me. Police launched a massive search and tracked down many of them, but most only knew her briefly and the search yielded nothing significant. Or that, at the very least, she was promiscuous. LAPD Police Chief William Worton told the Los Angeles Examiner that there was absolutely no case against Hansen. Hodel's son, former LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel, believes Short may have been one of his father's patients. The two photos Hodel was convinced was Short, the photos that launched his investigation, were soon called into question. "The things that she is saying are not consistent with the facts of the case. Undersigned identified this model as Mattie Comfort, 3423 South Arlington, Republic 4953. As they discuss the case, they reveal antipodal personalities. This story is a co-publication with The Delacorte Review. She drifted around the country during the next year-and-a-half until her death, never held another job, and often stayed briefly with friends and acquaintances. Harnisch could not interview Partyka, Bayley, or his wife because they had all died, so he ended up talking to numerous retired doctors who had either attended medical school with Bayley at USC or worked with him at Los Angeles County Hospital, and later researched his years as a surgeon in France during World War One. No charges were ever brought against him. He has been unable, however, to interest law enforcement authorities in following up on his claims. Joe Barrett, a roomer at the Hodel residence cooperated as an informant. Dumais, a 29-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey, confessed to Short's murder a few weeks after it occurred. Despite three witnesses testifying that they had seen Hodel having sex with Tamar, he was acquitted in December 1949. Hansen's girlfriend Ann Toth shared a room with Short in this house, which was near Hansen's nightclub. Trying to accurately chronicle the boyhood, career, war experiences, mental decline, flaws and foibles, and the marriage and eventual dissolution of the union of an unremarkable man born in 1880 seemed, at times, like a quixotic quest. Wilson was never a suspect until Gilmore brought him to the attention of authorities. I happened to be working on the rewrite desk of the Daily News that morning and drew the story when our police beat phoned in the first bulletin, Smith wrote in a column years later. The real killer, he believed, only killed once. Yes, there was some corruption in the department, but that was mostly in Vice. Over the course of their correspondence, De River began to believe that Connors did not exist and that Dillon had committed the murder himself. Bayley's daughter was a friend of Elizabeth Short's sister Virginia and brother . He didnt know her name and this was the pre-internet days, so he couldnt simply Google her. At the time of the murder, Bayley's estranged wife still lived in the home. But they dont take the next step. It is theorized that Dr Bayley's degenerative brain disorder which symptoms include homicidal ideation/behaviour in even pacifists. Police soon discovered that Connors did indeed exist; his real name was Artie Lane. Reporters and detectives raced to track down the boyfriends identified in the letters. And because his will was contested, Harnisch was able to study the probate files from the Hall of Records, which listed the contents of his office, down to the serial numbers of his typewriters, and all of his debts. Harnisch now had a connection between a witness to Virginia Shorts wedding and the crime scene. 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. While Fallon has an ebullient mien and manner, clearly enjoys discussing the bizarre nature of the case, and asks if Harnisch has explored his books movie potential. He simply wanted to tell a good crime story and to create an accurate biography of Short, tracing her life from small town Massachusetts, to California, to her death. It later comes out that she was promiscuous, perhaps even a lady of the night. Harnisch theorizes that Bayleys neurological deterioration contributed to his alleged violence against Short. The FBI, who had been called into the case to provide forensic assistance, noted in their files the problematic behavior of the reporters. Hes a journalist, he lets the facts guide him, and he doesnt have any agenda other than the truth., Anne Redding, chair of the Justice Studies Department at Santa Barbara City College, has researched the homicide for more than thirty years and uses it as a centerpiece in her Study of Murder class. And the fact that Hodels father was named as a suspect and is mentioned in the D.A.s files, she says, is intriguing. Walter Bailey may refer to: Walter Bailey (lawyer), state prosecutor in South Carolina; . Walter Bayley wasn't on any suspect list or sought out by police when Elizabeth Shorts body was found, but, should he have been? 146 W 11th St, Los Angeles, CA 90015 The Herald Examiner building, which is undergoing a renovation. 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 heinous nature of the crime drew widespread attention to the case. 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. After fingering his father for the two murders, Hodel later claimed he was one of the Twentieth Centurys most prolific serial killers. The story of the Black Dahlia made headlines for weeks. 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. And Los Angeles Times columnist Larry Harnisch believes that Walter Bayley was the doctor who did it. She claimed her infant son had died, yet she never had a child. The homes are well kept, the lawns trimmed, and the shrubbery pruned. [32], According to Los Angeles district attorney files, Dr. Patrick O'Reilly was a medical doctor who knew Short through nightclub owner Mark Hansen. With neither the energy nor motivation to finish his book, he put it aside. One of the first people to confess to the murder was a WAC sergeant stationed in San Diego. Detectives had planned to mail her fingerprints to the FBI in Washington, but an Examiner editor suggested using the papers Soundphoto machine, which was similar to a fax, to transmit the fingerprints to the Hearst Washington Bureau and then hand deliver them to the FBI. Los Angeles Times reporter Larry Harnisch disputes this and says that Dillon did in fact receive a financial settlement from the City of Los Angeles. We walk one more block to the home where Bayleys estranged family lived at the time, a single story home with gravel instead of a front lawn, edged with purple and yellow lantana, and a broad front porch. Jemison concluded in his summary: See supplemental reportsand hear recordings, all of which tend to eliminate this suspect.. She wrote her mother and told friends she was pursuing an acting career, yet she never took an acting class or showed any interest in the movies. 's investigation of Hodel and at least 21 other suspects. Killed her. His father was devastated. 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. Detective Brian Carr, the LAPD officer in charge of the Black Dahlia case at the time of Steve's briefing, said in a televised interview that he was baffled by Kay's response. Walter Thomas Bailey (January 11, 1882 - February 21, 1941) was an American architect from Kewanee, Illinois.He was the first African American graduate with a bachelor of science degree in architectural engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the first licensed African-American architect in the state of Illinois. As a result of wide-spread corruption in the LAPD, Hodel claimed, the murders were covered up and never solved. After fingering his father for the two murders, Hodel later claimed he was one of the Twentieth Centurys most prolific serial killers. The family was struggling, so during her freshman year she dropped out of high school and worked as a waitress and movie usherette. Steve Cooley about the case, he said that Kay had presented Hodels theory in a closed-door presentation, but he wasnt close to being convinced. Still, he allowed Lopez to peruse the previously unreleased 1949 grand jury files, which chronicled an investigation headed up by D.A. The envelope included Shorts birth certificate, Social Security card, newspaper clippings, and a ten-year-old address book, which listed seventy-five men. Kay, however, later insisted that he did not agree with Hodels contention of a police cover-up. Kay, however, later insisted that he did not agree with Hodels contention of a police cover-up. 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. She was the matron of honor at the wedding of Elizabeth Shorts oldest sister in Inglewood. After encountering these early erroneous accounts, he vowed that everything he wrote would be exact, backed by authenticated sources, and he ended up spending an inordinate amount of time, which stalled his own research and writing, challenging the accounts of other writers. He visited the downtown library and photocopied all the microfilmed Dahlia stories from the three other major newspapers in Los Angeles at the timethe Examiner, the Herald-Express, and the Daily News. 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. "We have a lot of people offering up their fathers and various relatives as the Black Dahlia killer," said St. John, better known as Jigsaw John. In the early 1990s, George Knowlton's daughter Janice began claiming that she had witnessed her father murdering Elizabeth Short, a claim she based largely on "recovered memories" that surfaced during therapy for depression after a hysterectomy. They dated for about a week and then she joined him on a sales trip as he headed up to L.A. Dillon offered up one of his friends, Jeff Connors, as a likely suspect. All the articles just say he was a cop. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. He doesnt bring in all this superfluous stuff to prove his case. - Los Angeles' Most Gruesome Murder Ever Elizabeth ("The Black Dahlia") Short's Murder Still Unsolved. 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. Harnisch obtained Bayleys death certificate and one of the causes of death is listed as encephalomalacia. O'Reilly had a history of sexually motivated violent crime. Harnisch doesnt have the smoking gun, but his theory definitely has to be included in the most likely theories.. 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. Take away any one element and nobody would care today. Short was face up, her gray-blue eyes were open, and she had been posed with elbows bent at right angles, her hands over her head, and her legs were spread with her knees straight. He eventually pared the list down to about a dozen of the people he believed were the most important to interview. Brian's Website Text is available under the Creative . The mailings disturbed the recipient so much that she showed them to her sister in Los Angeles, who contacted the police. Thats off the charts weird. 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