Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder the most extensive non-fiction accounts of Elizabeth Short's murder. The grisly 1947 murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué Elizabeth Short, known even before her death as the "Black Dahlia," has over the decades transmogrified from L.A.'s crime of the century to an almost mythical symbol of Hollywood Babylon/film noir glamour-cum-sordidness. The book offer a documented solution to the case as endorsed by law enforcement and forensic science experts. Through the narrative, Gilmore, whose father was an LAPD officer at the time of the murder, unravels the multilayered mystery of Short's slaying. Gilmore tells several previously unrevealed stories at once,
Victim: The Other Side of Murder and film rights. The crime resulted in the deaths of three victims and in horrific injuries to the surviving two. Stanley Walker, Ansley, and Carol Naisbitt were murdered. Cortney Naisbitt and Orren Walker survived, albeit with severe injuries. The crime was perpetrated by three men, all of whom were United States Air Force airmen stationed at Hill Air Force Base. The Hi-Fi murders was the basis for the 1991 CBS television movie "Aftermath: A Test of Love", starring Richard Chamberlain and Michael Learned. Victim: The Other Side of Murder Victim: The Other Side of Murder (Delacorte Press, ) is a