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Who Did What Now

179. Black Dahlia - Part 2

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

History, Feminist

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous cold cases, the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. So much of her life and death twisted by myth and bias...


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0:00.0

Hello, delicious friends and welcome to who Did What Now, the History Podcast that's

0:25.1

Not Your History Class, with me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet, and Reader of Books.

0:32.5

So it has been a month, it has been a month, and that month has felt like an entire fucking year. Like,

0:38.8

so much has happened in one month and it is filling me with fear, dread and undiluted rage.

0:46.0

Now, I don't know how else to explain it, because as a historian and sociologist who is

0:51.3

watching events unfold on this planet I have to say things are not

0:56.4

looking good okay and to top it all off I was already stressed okay I was already

1:01.3

stressed and then Catherine O'Hara died now I cannot explain how much this woman

1:09.4

means to me and you can be like oh parisocial blah blah blah

1:12.0

i don't give a fuck okay because i love katherine o'hara she was amazing and creative and funny

1:19.0

she was so funny and i loved her in like home alone in beadlejuice and best in show in sheds

1:25.8

creek got me through some tough damn times, let me tell

1:28.5

you. So when I am not recording this, I am just going to go and watch everything, everything

1:33.3

Catherine O'Hara has ever been in. I don't care if it's a bit part. I just need some joy right now.

1:41.4

Anyway, I know what you're thinking, you're thinking, Katie, quite your dabble-dabble and fact me.

1:47.0

And I'd love to fact you, but all of our sources are actually in part one.

1:54.0

So if you haven't listened to part one, you're going to want to go do that.

1:57.0

So that's got a bit more information on the timeline leading up to Elizabeth Short's death.

2:02.2

So we have Elizabeth Short's life, really, in the last episode, and this episode is Elizabeth

2:07.4

Short's death. I wasn't intentionally splitting them thusly, but the chips just fell where

2:14.7

they may. And so, without further ado,

2:19.5

are you sitting comfortably?

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