Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, The Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter

In January 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity, city-wide panic, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPD-all dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for over seventy years.



Six years earlier and sixteen hundred miles away, another woman's life ended in a similarly horrific manner. Leila Welsh was an ambiti...