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Lyda Southard (October 16, 1892 – February 5, 1958), also known as Lyda Anna Mae Trueblood, was an American female suspected serial killer.It was suspected that she had killed four of her husbands, a brother-in-law, and her daughter by using arsenic poisoning derived from flypaper [1] in order to obtain life insurance money.
Some sources attribute the Black Dahlia name to the 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia, starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd (pictured). [157] According to newspaper reports shortly after the murder, Short received the nickname "Black Dahlia" from staff and patrons at a Long Beach drugstore in mid-1946 as wordplay on the film The Blue Dahlia (1946).
When Lucie Arnaz went to the producer’s office to discuss the part of Elizabeth Short there were many photos of the murder victim, and people were amazed at Arnaz’s resemblance to Short. Someone said the actress was the Black Dahlia. Arnaz insisted on playing the deceased Elizabeth Short lying in the field and in the morgue scene. [6]
Carol Jenkins (October 19, 1947 - September 16, 1968) was an African-American woman who was murdered on September 16, 1968, by two white men in Martinsville, Indiana, a sundown town. Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s.
Linda Calvey (born Linda E P Welford, [1] 8 April 1948) [2] is an English author. Before becoming an author she was principally known for committing armed robberies and serving a life sentence for the murder of her lover Ronnie Cook.
Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [1] [2] Officials found her death to be a suicide. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence ...
On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue (Sedgwick Houses) in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx.
George Hill Hodel Jr. (October 10, 1907 – May 17, 1999) was an American physician, and a suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. [1] He was never formally charged with the crime but, at the time, police considered him a viable suspect, and two of his children believe he was guilty.