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Black Dahlia E Short — Part 1

162 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Famous Crimes & Fugitives · Topic: Black Dahlia E Short · 162 pages OCR'd
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Soundphoto Assists’ Probe of Mystery Victim Namedas Elizabeth Short; Clews Hunted at Santa Barbara Through fingerprints rushed to the FBI in Washington by the. Los Angeles Examiner, the‘ |. girl victim of a mutilation murder’whose body was | found here Wednesday was identified yesterday. - | Ghe is Elizabeth Short, 22 years old, at one | time employed as a civilian clerk at Camp Cooke, | 20 miles north of Lompoc. - : FBI records listed the home address as Santa Barbara and that she was born July 29, 1924, if Hyde Park, Mass. The records also showed she had been ar-| rested as a juvenile delinquent at Santa Barbara’ September 23, 1943, and released. |‘ Her deseription in the FBI file tallied with that of the slain girl and her fingerprints clinched the identification. \Soundphotos Aid Identification No trace of the girl after she left Camp Cooke was found in the records. The identification was brought about by the cooperative effort of the Examiner, International News Sound photos and the FBI The Examiner obtained fingerprints of the slain girl and sent them by soundphoto to this newspaper’s bureau in Washington, D. C. Ray - Richards, manager of thé bureau and a former Examiner reporter, took the prints to the FBI | offices. . —_ The FBI quickly checked through its massive fingerprint records and established that the prints, | wore those of the Short girl. — teenie aay pemntnconasnpeapimaenseavse sss it ante sea eS Eras aaa ao L?. Uraomeerter. Lot oo a”, So ae Athenee Aalst NE A tee we
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