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
Victim Support the Homicide Service, supporting people bereaved by murder or manslaughter. Victim Support Victim Support is an independent charity in England and Wales that provides specialist practical and emotional support to victims and witnesses of crime. Set up more than 40 years ago, Victim Support is the leading independent victims’ charity in England and Wales. The first Victim Support scheme was set up in Bristol in 1974, and by 1986 every county in England and Wales had at least one Victim Support scheme. The charity's founders included members of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (now NACRO)