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y FROM : if Rosen ‘STANDARD FORM NO,.64 r } e Office Memo dum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To 8: MRL EB. AL a pate: May 20, 1947 2 SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; ELIZABETH SHORT, aka Black Dahlia, VICTIM INFORMATION CONCERNING BaugunnunnnaRuENETS The Los Angeles Police Department informed the Los Angeles Division that Sergeant Peter AXVetcher was considered a likely suspect @ in connection with the murder of the above victim based on two postcards-postmar: September 21, 1946 to John P. O'Neil, Medford, Massachusetts, the victim signing one as Betty Short Vetcher and the other signed by Peter Vetcher indicated that they A were married and living in Hollywood. O'Neil was acquainted with the victim when i she resided in Medford, Massachusetts. Although military records indicated Vetcher was on duty at Ft. McClellan, Alabama during the pertinent period the Los Angeles | Police Department requested that Vetcher be interviewed for theme Sergeant Vetcher was interviewed by the Pittsburgh Division at which ‘ time he informed that during 1946 while with the Army he was assigned the duty of Q¢ returning deserters and absentees to Fort McClellan, Alabama. While in Los ~ Angeles on September 20, 1946 he was picked up by the victim while standing on a street corner after she had commented on certain military insignia on his uniform and asked if he was acquainted with O'Neil who was also in the First Ranger Battalion. He had a date with the victim and spent the night with her in her hotel room, spending also part of the day of September 21 with the victim and her roommate whose name Vetcher could not recall. Accompanying them on this day was Sergeant Charles Moffett who had accompanied Vetcher to Los Angeles. It was om September 21 when the discussion of O'Neil came up that the victim stated that she had formerly gone with him and he was. quite jealous of her and to play a joke on O'Neil she suggested that they both send postcards to him informing O'Neil that she was married to Vetcher. { Vetcher says further that after reading in the Birmingham, Alabaria” papers about the Black Dahlia murder he wrote a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department informing them of his meeting with her, fearing that his name might be found in her address book as she had noted it down when she had promised to write to him at Fort McClellan. He did not receive a reply from the Los Angeles Police Department. on Vetcher added that the victim was the type of girl who was very friendly {—" and would talk to anyone. She appeared known to the head waiter and numerous waiters at Tom Brenneman's Restaurant. Vetcher could furnish no information relative to the possible killer of Elizabeth Short. Ry y, y Cop, IPA» BP E. = 0) ’ Oe wie ee 8262953 1 Dry, FEE ED ens} AY 26 os, | « EX-71 CJMsLS :0d } &