Let me say this again. This photo is a fake.
The actual Daily News front page for Jan. 15, 1947, looks like this.
What’s wrong? Here:
Pay attention: “Body of unidentified teen-age girl (ARROW)”
Do you see an arrow in this picture? No. Because there isn’t one. Where is it?
Here it is, in the real photo.
So what happened? Someone took the Jan. 15, 1947, front page of the Daily News and pasted in another copy of the picture, cropping it slightly, then cropped the overall front page.
Who would do such a thing? Why it’s blackdahliasolution.org, which has retouched many Black Dahlia photos. Some of them are rather grotesquely done, like this one.
ladailymirror.com 
Mr. Harnisch,
Please help me out (and pehaps others who are similarly “duh” impaired). In what way is one of these things not like the other? What does not belong, or, in the alternative, what is missing?
Yours, with embarassment,
Lynne
LikeLike
Funny you should post that picture. We have been talking about that photo on BDIH. Is that a photo of Beth doctored up? It looks horrible. Thanks Larry!
LikeLike
Yes it’s been weirdly and crudely touched up by that website.
LikeLike
I see the differance but what is his motive for faking this photo?
LikeLike
These weirdly manipulated photos turn up on a Black Dahlia website without explanation.
LikeLike
Bit off topic, but I couldn’t help but notice the semicolon in the Real Front Page headline. I wonder if they are used anymore in big city papers. Probably not, like the no-subject headline of yore.
LikeLike
It happens, but most print heds are so short now that there’s no room to get in a second idea. Even the Web heads are limited to 60 characters for SEO purposes. But it happens.
LikeLike
I’ve never understood that particular fake, because the original is sensationalist and clear enough to read — there isn’t any reason to fake it, yet they did.
Hadn’t seen the second picture you posted before. Ugh, that is so poorly done it’s freakish.
LikeLike