Introducing: The Black Dahlia Serial Killers

The Black Dahlia Serial Killers

Wondery

Hollywood & Crime, Hollywood And Crime, Exhibit C, Los Angeles, Serial, History, Cold Case, Crime, Hollywood, Hollywood Killings, Documentary, Elizabeth Short, True Crime, Los Angeles Killings, Murder Trial, Black Dahlia, Murder, Investigation, Society & Culture, Unsolved Murder

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 4 minutes

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From Wondery, a new true crime series will immerse you in both the glamour and the underbelly of Hollywood in the 20th century. In season one, Tracy Pattin reopens the murder of Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia, and seven other similar cases around the same time.

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0:00.0	7-1
0:05.0	7-1
0:06.0	possible 390 man down in the live of 39 in the morning. Roger that.
0:12.0	This is Tracy Patton. We have a new series coming to Wundery. It's called Hollywood and Crime.
0:19.0	Over by those weeds. This must be it.
0:30.0	There it is. It's a body, all right. What the?
0:38.0	Jesus, Frank. This woman's been cut in half.
0:44.0	Each season we'll investigate notorious true crimes and scandals in Hollywood.
0:49.0	Crimes that made headlines nationwide in the first half of the 20th century.
0:54.0	Our stories are based on news coverage, official transcripts, and other contemporaneous accounts.
1:00.0	The depth of the ligature marks in the broken teeth suggests she was tortured for sustained period.
1:06.0	Mutilation was likely post-mortem. There are a few blood stains on the sidewalk, but very little seabed around the body itself.
1:15.0	So he drained the blood and washed the body, probably in a bathtub.
1:19.0	This season we reopened the unsolved cases of eight women who were brutally murdered or went missing in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
1:27.0	Most of the victims were strangled, some were assaulted. Nearly all their bodies were mutilated.
1:34.0	Settle down, guys. This is a dark day in our city.
1:39.0	Jane Doe number one is the victim of one of the most brutal killings we've ever seen.
1:44.0	I make no mistake about it finding her killer is our number one job.
1:48.0	All the women had only one thing in common, dark hair.
1:52.0	And the most memorable of them all is a black-haired beauty who came to Hollywood in 1946 seeking fame and fortune.
2:00.0	Yeah.
2:02.0	Ray Richard.
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