Daniel S. Voorhees Daniel S. Voorhees Daniel S. Voorhees (born 1913) was a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short on January 28, 1947. He asked members of the Los Angeles Police Department to meet him in downtown Los Angeles, at 4th Street and Hill Street (Los Angeles). Voorhees was eliminated as a suspect in the Black Dahlia slaying because his handwriting did not match that in the killer's note. Voorhees spent the night in the Los Angeles County Jail after he told LAPD detective E.R. Barrett that he met Elizabeth Short on Hill Street two weeks earlier. He
Cleft chin murder Diary of Basil Cottle 1943-1945, (Hobnob Press, 2017), pp.126-7, Wednesday 7th -Thursday 8th March 1945). A film, "Chicago Joe and the Showgirl" was made in 1990, based on the story, directed by Bernard Rose, written by David Yallop, and starring Emily Lloyd as Elizabeth Jones, Kiefer Sutherland as Karl , and Patsy Kensit. Cleft chin murder The cleft chin murder was a killing which occurred as part of a string of crimes during 1944, and was mentioned in George Orwell's essay "Decline of the English Murder". It became known as the "cleft chin murder" because the murder victim, George Edward