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,
Murder of Laura Law one of the suspects, even though he was at a union meeting at the time of the murder. Bill Law, a communist and labor activist, claimed that the murder happened when government agents were caught by Laura looking for evidence for the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Other stories claim that communists from the Soviet Union killed her because of what she might have known about the then-ongoing Winter War (1939-1940). The story of Laura Law’s murder reveals the political and ethnic atmosphere of Aberdeen, Washington during the 1940s. The division between White Finns and Red Finns, and the different