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	<title>The Black Dahlia in Hollywood</title>
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		<title>The Black Dahlia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Long Beach -
A Long Beach druggist and his son filled a gap in time in the Short girl&#8217;s life.  This was the period July 22 to August 3 last year.
&#8220;She lived at the Washington  hotel, now called the Atwater, at 53 Linden Avenue,&#8221; said Arnold Landers Sr., the pharmacy owner.
&#8220;She&#8217;d come into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 1 ~ The Blue Dahlia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1946
As summer turned into fall in 1946, Elizabeth Short, a young woman from the east, began to be known around Hollywood. The war was over, and returning soldiers and sailors filled the streets and bars of Hollywood. Elizabeth, or Beth, as she referred to herself, liked men in uniform and she began to spend a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 2 ~ The Road to Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Short was born on July 29, 1924 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts to the parents of Cleo and Phoebe Short.  She was raised nearby in Medford, where she attended school.  Her father deserted the family when Elizabeth and her four sisters were young. Her mother raised the girls alone.
When she was old enough, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Chapter 3 ~ Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood was a town filled with motion picture and radio studios, a town where people rode street cars to the San Fernando Valley or to the seashore or up and down Hollywood Boulevard. There were safety islands for passengers and tunnels under the Boulevard for pedestrians. There were newsboys hawking the daily newspapers at every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 4 ~ Ann Toth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Hollywood, Beth Short knew many men during her last months. She also knew women, but none of the friendships appeared to be close. She knew Connie Starr, an actress, and  Marjorie Graham, from Massachusetts and Lynn Martin, a teenage runaway.
One who was closer than others was actress and model Ann Toth, described by newspapers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Chapter 5 ~ Leo Hymes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hats
Leo Hymes,  Ann Toth&#8217;s boy friend and Mark Hansen&#8217;s friend, worked  in ladies apparel.  In late 1946, he  lived at 356 N. Alfred Street, near La Cienega Boulevard and Beverly Boulevard, but  spent time visiting Ann at the Carlos Avenue house, about five miles east.
He recalled once that, &#8220;Easter was getting around there &#8211; Easter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=660</link>
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		<title>Chapter 6 ~ Mark Hansen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Hansen was born in Aalborg, Denmark in 1892 and moved to the United States in 1919, where he settled in Scobey, Montana. He bought a theater in Scobey and later moved to Williston, North Dakota, where he bought two more theaters.    He moved to Minnesota for about nine months where he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=418</link>
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		<title>Chapter 7 ~ The Carlos Avenue House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The unpretentious home of Mark Hansen, a block north of Hollywood Boulevard, behind the Marcal Theatre and the Florentine Gardens, was also home to young girls who were down on their luck.
Ann Toth lived there while she pursued her acting career. Her boyfriend, Leo Hymes, was a friend of Mark Hansen, and according to Ann, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=614</link>
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		<title>Chapter 8 ~ The Jolson Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Meet me at Hollywood and Vine,&#8221; a catch phrase made popular during the radio era, was widely used by locals and tourists during the brief time that Beth Short was in Hollywood.  Linda Rohr, a roommate at the Chancellor said, &#8220;She loved to prowl the Boulevard.&#8221; She frequented Tom Breneman&#8217;s on Vine, where the waiters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=589</link>
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		<title>Chapter 9 ~ Small Town Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood has always been a small town to those who live there. Seems you always run into someone you know when you&#8217;re walking down Hollywood Boulevard or sitting in a coffee shop.
In the 1940&#8217;s, Harry Carpenter&#8217;s was a popular drive-in restaurant in Hollywood, located at the five points, where Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Virgil Avenue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 10 ~ Citizens Committee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Document from the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Black Dahlia files:
May 18, 1949
Gentlemen:
With reference to the Elizabeth Short, (Black Dahlia) case reopened in the press January 14 1947.  The following allegations seem to constituent reasonable grounds for a re-opening of the investigation of this case.
On January 14, 1947, at about 10.30 A.M., on my way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=565</link>
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		<title>Chapter 11 ~ The Frolic Room &amp; The Crown Grill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Short lived in Hollywood for roughly the last five months of her life, and while some assumed she was working at TWA, or at the airport in Burbank, or elsewhere,  she managed to be a bar scene regular.
She was known at Steve Boardner’s on Cherokee, just a few blocks from the Chancellor, where she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=68</link>
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		<title>Chapter 12 ~ The Duke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Lynn Martin heard that the authorities were searching for her, she turned to her friend, Edward P. &#8220;Duke&#8221; Ellington. Ellington advised her to turn herself into the police.  He wrote a letter to Captain Jack Donahoe, head of the homicide squad. It was received on January 27, 1947, after Lynn had been interviewed. Wllington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=1001</link>
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		<title>Chapter 13 ~ On the Road with Red &amp; Beth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 5, 1946, Beth was visibly upset.  She cried and told people she was scared.  Juanitia Ringo, the manager of the Chancellor in Hollywood, said, &#8220;I felt sorry for her even when she got behind on the rent.  She looked tired and worried.&#8221;
&#8220;When I went up for the rent last December [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=66</link>
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		<title>Chapter 14 ~ The Death of Elizabeth Short</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beth spent several hours at the Biltmore making telephone calls and using the ladies room. About 10:00 pm, wearing Ann Toth&#8217;s coat,  she walked out of the lobby doors of the Biltmore Hotel on Olive Street and turned south. According to authorities, she was not seen again until six days later, when her bisected body [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Chapter 15 ~ The Lady Vanishes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Porté Disparu
When Robert Manley drove Elizabeth Short to Los Angeles on January 9, 1947, he noticed that she frequently turned around in her seat and looked back at cars they passed or that passed them on the road, but she said nothing. He dropped her off at the Biltmore Hotel that evening. It was cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=839</link>
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		<title>Chapter 16 ~ Witnesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lynn Martin, one of Beth’s roommates told investigators to check into a photographer that she knew named George Price. According to Lynn, Price, 43 years old, took Lynn to his apartment once and shot nude photographs of her. She said that he knew Beth, too. George Price was also said to have been seen driving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Chapter 17 ~ Postmortem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Short’s body was discovered on the morning of January 15.  The next day, her body was identified. On that day, Ann Toth and Mark Hansen went to the police on their own and told them what they knew.
Bill Robinson, who lived with Beth, Marjorie Graham and Marvin Margolis at the Guardian Arms, also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Chapter 18 ~ The District Attorney Investigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have  been &#8220;over 300&#8243; suspects &#8211; Finis Brown
The LAPD investigation into the murder of Elizabeth Short began after the discovery of her body on January 15, 1947. Detectives Harry Hansen and Finis Brown  were assigned to the case from the beginning and remained the primary investigators through the years. Although the case was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=98</link>
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		<title>Chapter 19 ~ The Disappearance of Ann Toth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No Publicity
Ann Toth remains a mystery in the Black Dahlia story, in part because she disappeared after the investigation by the district attorney.
Ann was questioned by the Los Angeles Police Department shortly after the murder was discovered.  She and Mark Hansen went to see homicide detectives as soon as they heard that authorities were looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=872</link>
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		<title>Chapter 20 ~ Harry Hansen Remembers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Detective Harry Hansen retired from the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 he moved to Palm Springs with his wife Norma and started a new life.  He wrapped up a 43 year career, but the unsolved mystery of the Black Dahlia murder wouldn&#8217;t set him free. In interviews, he discussed the one that got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=936</link>
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		<title>Chapter 21 ~ Myth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where does Elizabeth Short fit in Hollywood lore today? To those who know little of her, she may have been a loose woman or prostitute who was killed years ago in a sex slaying. For others, she was a beautiful, young aspiring actress, the victim of a terrible murder. To others still, she was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=185</link>
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		<title>Chapter 22 ~ A Typical Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Hollywood
Too much time has passed and too many witnesses are gone to accurately reconstruct a typical day in the life of Elizabeth Short in Hollywood in 1946, but we can imagine what might have been:
Before she returned to her apartment that evening, Beth walked through the front door of Musso and Frank&#8217;s on Hollywood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?p=108</link>
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