In January 1947 the nude and bisected body of Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia) was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. Cuts to her face stretched from the edges of her mouth to her ears—resulting in a clownlike smile—and markings on the body suggested that Short had been bound, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The official cause of death was determined to be cerebral hemorrhage and shock.
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