On the morning of January 15th, 1947, in a quiet lot in south central Los Angeles,

an ordinary housewife out for a walk discovered something that would shock the world.

A young actress, stripped, bisected, drained of blood.

It is the crime that became the legend of the Black Dahlia murder.

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel

Waltman. Tonight, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Eli Frankl, who I'll bring in in just a

moment. He has a new book out. It is called Sisters in Death. And this is a book I highly recommend

that you read. We'll have a link to it in our common section.

And it digs deeper than just about any other book on this famous case, linking that

brutal murder to another unsolved killing of a prairie heiress uncovering never seen documents

in confronting the mystery.

Every investigator calls the key question, which is what really happened that morning.

Why did the killer display the body so publicly?

And could the same man have committed two cold case murders separated by years and states.

And the man who's got the answer to that, my friend, a TV news producer,

a documentarian and now author, Eli Frankl.

Eli, thank you for joining us.

The first and most obvious question, I mean, there is some synergy here, but how do you go from this successful TV producer to writing a book about, you know, what is arguably the most famous cold case in the world.

Yeah. Thanks, Joel. It's great to be here. Yeah, I mean, I had been a TV producer,

reality shows, game shows, late night, and documentaries for many, many years. I guess,

you know, that was my life. I never planned on necessarily writing a book, but I've been a true crime fanatic all these

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