617 // The Black Dahlia Mystery Continues w/ William J. Mann
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's also a case to be made that the killer knew of Elizabeth's connection to Anne and to Mark Hansen. |
| 0:08.1 | It was while Elizabeth was still alive, but likely being held a prisoner by the person who would eventually kill her. |
| 0:15.4 | It was during that period that the first anonymous calls came in. |
| 0:20.3 | And Mark got the phone when they kept hanging up in him |
| 0:23.8 | and went and took the phone and they continued to hang up on her. Subsequent to Elizabeth's |
| 0:29.2 | murder and periodically would get these obscene phone calls, these hang-up calls. Sometimes they |
| 0:34.9 | were, as she said, it would be sex talk. Again, one theory is that has |
| 0:39.0 | nothing to do with the case of Elizabeth Shortland. And Toth was an attractive actress in Hollywood. |
| 0:44.6 | You know, she could have, there could have been other reasons for these calls. I wanted to see if I |
| 0:48.6 | could find a killer who might have a motivation to do this. And I do think that one of the |
| 0:54.1 | suspects that I talked about in the book does have somewhat of a motivation to do this. And I do think that one of the suspects that I talk about |
| 0:55.2 | in the book does have somewhat of a motivation to harass Anne and Mark. |
| 1:36.1 | And In today's new episode, we speak with New York Times best-selling author William J. Man about his newest book, Black Dahlia, Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Mid-Century Hollywood. |
| 1:44.0 | Lance, what did you think of this conversation? I loved it as a continuation of this. and madness in mid-century Hollywood. |
| 1:46.0 | Lance, what did you think of this conversation? |
| 1:51.7 | I loved it as a continuation of this unintentional series that we suddenly got going on the Black Dahlia on Elizabeth Short. |
| 1:53.6 | Elizabeth Short, as most people are aware of, is known as the Black Dahlia, unfairly known as |
| 1:58.4 | the Black Dahlia, by the way. |
| 1:59.6 | And we get into that nickname, |
| 2:09.1 | that moniker in this conversation. But she was unfortunately murdered in 1947. So if we're doing some quick math here, we're coming up on 80 years of this particular cold case. And it's always |
| 2:16.0 | stood the test of time, not always in a good way, but William has delivered one of the best accounts. |
| 2:22.1 | And we've had a lot of really, really good accounts on the Black Dahlia. |
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