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
Murder of Brenda Gerow Discovery. Her brother and father provided interviews. Murder of Brenda Gerow Brenda Marie Gerow () (February 18, 1960–ca. April 6, 1981), previously known as Pima County Jane Doe, was a formerly unidentified American murder victim who was found on April 8, 1981. In late 2014, a photograph of a facial reconstruction of the victim was made public that led to Gerow's identification the next year. She was buried under a headstone with the placeholder name of "Jane Doe" with the phrase "UNK - 1981" Gerow's body remained unidentified for thirty-four years until it was announced that her remains had positively