The Black Dahlia (California, 1947)

On January 15, 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short, later nicknamed the “Black Dahlia,” was found in a vacant Los Angeles lot. She had been brutally mutilated and bisected at the waist. Despite widespread media coverage and a flood of tips, her killer was never definitively identified. Various suspects have been proposed over the decades, including medical professionals and people in Short’s social circle.