Sisters in Death (eBook)

The Black Dahlia, the Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter

Eli Frankel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
400 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4378-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Who killed the Black Dahlia? In this eye-opening shocker, an award-winning producer, true-crime researcher, and Hollywood insider finally solves the greatest - and most gruesome - murder mystery of the twentieth century just before its 80th anniversary. In January 1947, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity, city-wide panic, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPDall dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for over seventy years. Six years earlier and sixteen hundred miles away, another woman's life had ended in a similarly horrific manner. Leila Welsh was an ambitious, educated, popular, and socially connected beauty. Though raised modestly on a prairie farm, she was heiress to her Kansas City family's status and wealth. On a winter morning in 1941, Leila's butchered body was found in her bedroom bearing the marks of unspeakable trauma. One victim faded into obscurity. The other became notorious. Both had in common a killer whose sadistic mind was a labyrinth of dark secrets. Eli Frankel reveals for the first time a key fact about the Black Dahlia crime scene, never before shared with the public, that leads inexorably to the stunning identification of a criminal who was at the same time amateurish and fiendish, skilled and lucky, sophisticated and brutish. Drawing on newly discovered documents, law enforcement files, interviews with the last surviving participants, the victims' own letters, trial transcripts, military records, and more, this epic true-crime saga puts together the missing pieces of a legendary puzzle. In Sisters in Death, the Black Dahlia cold case is finally closed.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
• Schlagworte: Autopsy • Beth Short • Biographies • Biography • bisected body • Black Dahlia • Black Dahlia Avenger • blood clues • Carl Balsiger • case solved • Cold Case • conspiracy • Crime • crime books • Criminal psychology • criminology books • Death • dismemberment • Eli Frankel • Elizabeth Short • Evidence • exsanguination • FBI • fbi books • German • Historical • historical true crime • Hollywood legend • investigation • James Elroy • Kansas City Police Department • Killers • LA Noir • LAPD • Law and Order • Leila Welsh • Medical • mind of a murderer • Murder • Murder Mystery • Mutilation • Mystery • Prison • prison books • Psychology • serial killer • serial killer book • serial killer books • serial killer encyclopedia • serial killers • serial killers true crime • Steve Hodel • the key question • Thriller • True Crime • true crime book • true crime books • true crime gifts • true murder books • True stories • True story • true story books • University of Kansas City • unsolved murder • Victorian
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4378-7 / 0806543787
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4378-9 / 9780806543789