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It was supposed to be a morning just like any other.

The birds were chirping in the distance.

A little girl was learning to ride her bike along the curving paths of a nearby park. It was January 15, 1947, and that

morning a mother was walking with her child near Lehmert Park in Los Angeles, when she spotted a mannequin next to the sidewalk.

Its pose seemed unnatural. As a woman stepped closer, she discovered a gruesome scene.

It was a young woman, sliced in half at the waist.

The sides of her face were sliced from the corners of her mouth to her ears.

The mother ran to a nearby home to get a phone to call the police, and they made even more discoveries.

As it turns out, her body had been drained of blood,

and some organs, including her intestines,

were removed and placed in a sheet under her.

Her thighs and other parts of her body had pieces of flesh cut off,

and her stomach was found to be full of feces.

What was also odd is that her body had otherwise been wiped, clean of blood.

What followed next were a series of suspects, some confessing to the gruesome murder,

were found difficult to prove.

In fact, some of the theories involved had made this story one of the most mysterious and

strange cases in the country.

This is the mystery of the Black Dahlia.

My name is Edwin, and here is a dark memory.

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