(Note: this episode is officially listed as "Episode 115" in this series, which places it somewhere around this date in 2006.) Who killed Elizabeth Short? That question has been asked for almost 50 years. Two people are convinced they know the killer, but nothing is definite in either case. It's still technically a "cold case."
One thing for sure: it involved the biggest manhunt in L.A. history, according to host Bill Kurtis, who travels to Los Angeles to see if he can find the answers himself to the famous case of "The Black Dahlia." The crime was murder and the victim was 22-year-old Miss Short, a local waitress whose body was found cut in two and left on the sidewalks in front of an empty lot in a subdivision in Los Angeles.
Kurtis interviews a man who has written a book, claiming that the murderer was his father. He explains why he thinks this, and sounds pretty convincing. However, one has doubts after Kurtis also interviews a few detectives and one who is just as sure the killer was another man, whom he names. Where the body was dumped is relevant in one scenario while all the blood was drained and the body mutilated in such fashion that it leads to other suspects, etc., etc., on and on.
The mystery, as one person puts it here near the end of the episode, "most likely will never be solved."
For details of all this, you can go to numerous websites as this case has fascinated the public since the crime occurred in January of 1947. There have a number of TV shows on it, as this one is, and a full-length movie released in 2006.