146 - The Black Dahlia Murder Mystery

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Who killed Elizabeth Short in 1947? We still don't know. Or do we? Today we go over the details of the Black Dahlia murder mystery - to this day the most infamous murder in Los Angeles history. We also go through a long list of suspects and take a close look at the guy I think did it. Will you come to the same conclusion I did? Find out today, on another true crime edition of Timesuck! Feel the Heat preorder Link: https://bit.ly/2WVJuax Come to my standup special taping at Crofoot in Detroit on Friday, October 18th. Two shows! First is at 6:30PM: https://bit.ly/2N3E1tP Second show is at 9PM: https://bit.ly/2FoADU6 Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) July 26-27 Cincinnati, OH West Liberty Funnybone CLICK HERE for tix! August 1-3 Charlotte, NC The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! August 4 Richmond, VA The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! August 9-10 Orlando, FL The Improv CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE TIMESUCK *** August 11th - Orlando, FL The Improve CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Leesa! Get 15% off your entire order at leesa.com/TIMESUCK and use promo code TIMESUCK HelloFresh For $80 off your first month of HelloFresh, go to HelloFresh.com/timesuck80 and enter the code TIMESUCK80 Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/lDvvwlnd-B8 Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're almost 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	On the morning of March 12, 1947, the nude and severely bludgeoned body of Evelyn Winters,
0:05.7	former movie studio musician was found dumped on a vacant lot near some railroad tracks,
0:10.0	just two miles from downtown Los Angeles. Her shoes and undergarments were found to block
0:14.6	away. The 42-year-old woman had been struck repeatedly with a club or pipe about the head and
0:18.8	face and the killer then wrapped her victim's dress around her neck. Police believed she'd been
0:24.0	slain elsewhere and that her body was then dragged from an automobile to the dirt lot. The cause
0:29.2	of death was blunt force trauma causing a concussion and hemorrhage to the brain. Her murder
0:35.0	remains unsolved to this day. On May 11, 1947, the body of 37-year-old Laura Elizabeth
0:41.8	Trellstad was found near the signal hill oil fields of Long Beach. She'd been strangled with
0:46.8	a piece of flowered cotton cloth believed torn from a man's pajamas or shorts. Her cause of death
0:52.6	was determined to be asphyxia due to strangulation and a skull fracture in hemorrhage and contusion
0:58.1	of the brain. She'd been sexually assaulted. She also been slain elsewhere and then her body dumped
1:02.9	on the dirt of an open field. Her murder also remains unsolved. On July 8, 1947, Rosenda Josephine
1:10.9	Mondragon's nude dead body was found with a silk stocking wrapped around her neck in her LA
1:15.6	city hall. The 20-year-old had been strangled her right breast slashed and her dead body thrown
1:21.2	from an automobile. Her murder remains unsolved. On the afternoon of Thursday, July 17, 1947,
1:28.3	the body of a 36-year-old Marion Newton was discovered just north of San Diego, lined
1:34.5	inside of an isolated dirt road. She'd been strangled to death with a thin wire or cord,
1:39.4	bruises were found on her body and she'd been sexually assaulted as well. And you guessed it,
1:44.2	her murder remains unsolved. And there were others, many others, women strangled, beaten,
1:48.8	sometimes mutilated, sometimes raped. Their nude bodies dumped all over Southern California
1:53.8	in and around 1947. But I'm guessing you've only heard of one of them and it wasn't any of the
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