Here is this month’s Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case. I discuss the “suspect of the month” (Mark Hansen) and talk about the gap in Elizabeth Short’s life from Jan. 9, 1947, when Red Manley left her at the Biltmore, and Jan. 15, 1947, when her body was found on Norton Avenue in Leimert Park.

Executive summary: Mark Hansen was eliminated as a suspect after an exhaustive investigation. Nobody knows where Elizabeth Short was for the five days leading up to her murder regardless of what you hear from people who are misinformed or under the sway of retired Detective III Steve Hodel, who has compiled an elaborate list of “sightings,”  all of which were investigated by police at the time and dismissed.

The next Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case will be on the first Tuesday in November (Nov. 7). I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything on George Hodel next Tuesday, Oct. 10, live on YouTube and Instagram at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. For this session, I’ll discuss the trial of George Hodel – what really happened, not what Steve Hodel claims.