The Big Jimmy

The surfeit of useless trivia regarding the Elizabeth Short murder today, stands in stark contrast to the extreme paucity of material to be found out there about the Jeanne French and Evelyn Winters murders, a mere few weeks hence. What very skimpy evidence there is concerning these crimes reads like pure LAPD double speak, blithely intended to neatly sever these three crimes, and their seemingly obvious connections, from each other, in the mind of the public. It must be said that they have succeeded masterfully in doing so, and how stupid did they think we were? Pretty stupid, indeed.

Time marches on, and what was once and eyes only top secret scandal has become a pseudo-public franchise. A pay-per-view on tour event for snowbirds and tourists on early vacations in Hollywood. Somehow even the FBI remains involved, with the great Black Dahlia murder 65Th. year of failure commemoration last week, and by the way; it still considers Short to have been an "Hollywood starlet", and not even those BDiH jerks would buy into that grotesque lie. It's a whopper!

The LAPD handbill above, dated January 21 is chock a block full of factual errors concerning the poor Short girl. The photo is a very bad chroma and only vaguely recalls her in life, or death. She was five-five inches tall, and 115 pounds, and she had dark brown hair and light blue eyes. How did they expect or get anything but all bad leads if they're deliberately misinforming other law enforcement agencies with a bad description? Again, this sort of thing is outside the parameters of my experience. I usually worked from the description given, and begs the question of what they were thinking.

The Johnson's described the beige overcoat, plastic handled purse, and black suede pumps correctly but their story won't break for another day yet. What gives with that? On the other hand, they had released Red Manley from custody early on the morning of January 20th. with a clean lie detector test. Therefore, we can deduce that the Johnson's eyewittness identifications agree substantially with Manley's descriptions of some of her items of clothing.

Whereas the Hirsh Apts. managers described the Dahlia's hair as being covered by a white bandanna. A fact which completely explodes the myth that the couple had incorrectly described her hair as being black, when she went to her room on January 12, 1947, and that it was the L.A. police themselves who were pumping all this bilge water out, about her last being seen on the Ninth of January at the Biltmore hotel, and intentionally fouling their own case. Orders from higher up, there's no recourse left.

Where they came up with the green eyes canard is perhaps the biggest mystery of all. Nobody who ever met Elizabeth would make such a mistake. On the contrary everyone mentions her blue eyes as being the most her most unmistakable facial feature indeed. This is not outside my experience; in fact, witnesses who have had some intimacy with the victim always recall the hair and eye color with a high degree of accuracy. It's an easy marker.

Her mother and sister and brother-in-law were in town by then, I hope they were never exposed to such erroneous materials, although they must have clearly sensed the hopelessness of their search for the real killer of the real Elizabeth Short if not, how immensely long it would finally take to bring Edwin F. Burns to justice, though they cannot have possibly have guessed, that it would last an entire lifetime or more.