It is not known who killed Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia) in 1947. The Los Angeles Police Department conducted hundreds of interviews, and the main suspects included George Hodel, a doctor with a hedonistic lifestyle who in 1949 was arrested for the alleged rape of his 14-year-old daughter but was later acquitted; Mark Hansen, a nightclub owner acquainted with Short; Leslie Dillon, a former mortician’s assistant who knew details about the crime that had not been released to the public; and Marvin Margolis, who reportedly had a brief relationship with Short. Some have speculated that Margolis was also the Zodiac Killer (another unidentified killer accused of a string of murders in northern California between 1968 and 1969). No one was ever charged for the death of Short, and the case remains unsolved.
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