The Black Dahlia Murder - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/24/26
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Guest host Richard Syrett and author Eli Frankel discuss the Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles in 1947, why the case remains unsolved after almost 80 years, and his theory on the top suspect who may have been connected to another murder in Kansas City years earlier.
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| 0:38.3 | And we are back with Eli Frankl, the author of Sisters in Death, the Black Dahlia, the Prairie heiress, and their hunter. |
| 0:45.3 | And as we're learning, this case doesn't begin in Hollywood in 1947. It begins in Kansas City in 1941. |
| 1:01.8 | And so right now we're talking about the grisly murder of Layla Welsh, the Prairie heiress. |
| 1:13.7 | And you were discussing, before the break, Eli, you were discussing the Layla's mother discovering her daughter's body in the bed, the head nearly severed. Um, what else? I mean, how was this murder similar or virtually identical to |
| 1:24.0 | the Elizabeth short black dahlia murder? Yeah. Um. Well, I don't know what your taste is for the gruesome. |
| 1:32.3 | So I'll try to kind of... |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah, let's try and sanitize it a little bit. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.3 | Let me see if this is sanitized enough. |
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