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
Posthumous marriage Chinese women are being murdered and then their bodies are buried atop the coffins of unmarried Chinese males. The brides were picked by the parents of the deceased males. Before the murders, a short traditional wedding ceremony was held so that the deceased sons would have marriage in the afterlife. While it appears that the murders are part of a long-standing tradition, the writers acknowledge that the tradition did not involve murder. In Elizabeth McCracken's romance "The Giant’s House," a librarian named Peggy Cort meets an eleven-year-old boy named James Sweatt, who suffers from a rare disease called Gigantism. Cort