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
Elizabeth Bibesco Elizabeth Bibesco Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco ("née" Asquith; 26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945) was an English writer and socialite. She was the daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian prince. Active as a writer between 1921 and 1940, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title "Haven" in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen. Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy was the first child of Herbert Henry Asquith (British Prime Minister, 1908–1916) and his second