A Slow Newsday



The Winterrowd Memorandum

 Sixty-five years ago today, aways out west, in Los Angeles, the heat was officially off whomever the chief Black Dahlia suspect actually was at the time. He who's the non-subject of the still redacted memo addressed to Mr. Ladd, at FBI Headquarters, dated January 20Th. 1947. It was found in J. Edgar Hoover's file. That's something even the FBI still can't talk about, even today. But why not? The war was long over....

Nominally to protect the ongoing investigation, such as it is, or was, but that can only mean one of two things, in this case: either that the subject himself is still alive; or his identity is still an aging, expensive, and well guarded state secret. You simply can't have it both ways; even in a company town like Hollywood.

Therefore whomsoever this Inked Out person might indeed be, or might even have once been, but they just didn't say. And whereas the LAPD didn't say they did, it seems to me; had been as neatly called off of the Short list of suspects at the time, and reacted much like a dog trained on a whistle, their teeth are bared, and they're still visibly snarling, but they're making no sound or fury, not even a whimper, but as thoroughly cowered as a bird in a cage. 

Such a queer fate, we've all been so defiled, dropped, and so disconnected, from each other in the old city, that the line of personal communication is virtually dead, somehow, somewhere its been severed, and cast in twain. We must make her whole again.

Ed, Eddy, and Edwin



Dahlia's Military Pal

Barnes and Wife

Undoubtedly working through some pre-arraigned signal in the newspapers, Edwin F. Burns all too soon felt he needed to chum the waters some more, to keep his publicity binge going, and he responded by dropping her shoes and purse in the trash on Crenshaw, and next with the belongings package, which he addresses to the, "Los Angeles Examiner and other Los Angeles newspapers," and he mailed. 

Oddly occulted layout



Weird Examiner composite layout. That's Ed and Elizabeth on the left, and  Ed in San Pedro in 1943 is second from the right.

 A package which also contained, among other things a 1943 photo of WO1 Ed Burns himself, right along with the 1946 photo booth pictures of himself and Elizabeth Short. We have connected all the dots for you here at the Black Dahlia Reader



W-01 Ed Burns

       However, at the time, Jeanne French and Evelyn Winters still drew breath, and still needed to be served and protected, if only for awhile longer. But it wasn't happening then, for them either, and there's a good chance it ain't gonna happen soon for us. Ed, if he lived, had outsmarted them temporarly, but he was too clever by half. He knows who did it, better than anyone else could, because he did it. Whether it must all eventually happen, or will happen, is entirely beyond the scope of this present inquiry.