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Black Dahlia(Continued from Page 7)work on the contents of the box. Painstakingly, they worked on each new aspect, including 200 names in the address book. Nothing. A stone wall.Since Elizabeth Short's bisected body was found, 38 persons have confessed to her murder.But the police, just as dedicated to protecting the innocent as convicting the guilty, have repudiated all the confessions.Sometimes the Innocent need protection from their own mental quirks.ELEVEN TEAKS* have passed since '’The Black Dahlia hit the headlines and the case still is not closed. There is no time-limit escape clause for those who take a life.• • * • i.Police Sgt. Edward C, Boynton , now a detective Inspector on the Long Be^ch bunco squad, still recalls the girl with the black hair piled atop her head.He's forgotten the name of the woman who christened her 'The Black Dahlia/' but knows she handled real estate transactions.He clearly remembers that drug store meeting and another time, shortly afterwards at the same place, when he saw the beauty in the company of an . Air Force officer.It was several months later when he read of the miftita*-' tion murder of a woman in Lo* Angele3.In a few days, police had identified the victim from fingerprints filed with the FBI when/she was taken into police custody ‘at the Santa Barbara bar.The newspapers ran a picture of the victim and Boynton thought he recognized her.He located the real estate woman and showed her the picture. ^ .Oh, my God! the woman said. That's her.'? -1r* ,1 BOYNTON WENT BACK topolice headquarters to report Elizabeth Short Fad, at oiw time, been In long Beach.•'There were about 16 newspaper reporters there, he said.'’ “In talking, I mentioned casually that someone thought she should be called The Black Dahlia/‘Those reporters headed Tor the phones like a covey of quail, tripped by a bird dog. From then on, it was The Black Dahlia Case.'Boynton wasn’t concerned with, the gtamorous name. H* asked for permission to work with detectives to see if he could locate the Air Force officer.He and Jiis colleagues did trace the officer and found that the mar had been on the East Coast at the time of tha murder.TO THT3 DAT, Dct .Tnsp-Boynton doesn’t specifically know why the Long Beach real estate woman dubbed the beauty The Black DahliaHe assumes it was because of the way Elizabeth Short wore her black hair.In newspaper accounts of the case, there has been little speculation on the why of the name. Different stories have authoritatively attributed the name to:She Eked her men friends to give her black, frilly lingerie.She wore a black dahlia a* a corsage.She preferred black suits and dresses.There was something elsedost* it in. * the' flower4 or her youth.
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Independent Press Telegram
Long Beach, California, US
Sun, Dec 28, 1958
Page 37
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