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
Frances Elizabeth Barrow She died at 30 East Thirty-fifth street, in New York City, May 7, 1894. The interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery. Two daughters, Mrs. S. L. Holly and Mrs. Theodore Connoly, survived her. Frances Elizabeth Barrow Frances Elizabeth Barrow (pen name, Aunt Fanny; nickname, "Frankie Blue"; February 22, 1822 - May 7, 1894) was an American author of children's stories. Frances Elizabeth Mease was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 22, 1822. Her parents were Charles Benton Mease, of Charleston, and Sarah Matilda Graham of Boston. Barrow's sister, Alexina Black Mease married Richard Grant White in 1850. When her father committed