In the February 2025 Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case, I talk about my work in progress, Heaven Is HERE! and my current focus on the autopsy of Elizabeth Short. I also discussed William Mann’s forthcoming book on the Black Dahlia case.

WARNING: I am the “grumpiest man in the world” according to Last Podcast on the Left.

In this session, I also discussed:
–Why Elizabeth Short’s body was cut in half with surgical precision.
–Is it possible Elizabeth Short’s body was bisected somewhere other than a private residence?
–Have I ever reexamined the claim that Walter Bayley had a son who was killed and Elizabeth Short told lies that she had a son that died?
–Why did Elizabeth Short fictionalize her life so much?
–What did Elizabeth Short do for her last Christmas in 1946?
–Where, when and why did Elizabeth Short get a tattoo?
–Will Fowler’s bogus claim that he was the first reporter at the crime scene.
–When Elizabeth Short left the Biltmore, was she going to the bus station to get her luggage?
–Is there an annual gathering at the Biltmore to commemorate Elizabeth Short’s disappearance?
–When was the last known time Elizabeth Short had a job?
–Why do you think the killer sent Elizabeth Short’s belongings to the Examiner?
–Why we don’t know where Elizabeth Short went when she left the Biltmore.
–Did Elizabeth Short write names in her “address book” in alphabetical order?
–Was Elizabeth Short’s killing personal to the offender?
–The identity of the man Ralph Asdel believed was a suspect.
–Were Barbara Lindgren and Virginia Short really friends?
–What about the sightings during the “lost week?”
–Is any leg hair visible in the morgue shots of Elizabeth Short?
–Does the killer of Elizabeth Short fit modern profiling definitions?
–Did Betty Bersinger live on Norton Avenue when she found Elizabeth Short’s body?
–What was Gordon Fickling’s full name?
–Why isn’t Elizabeth Short’s autopsy report online?
–Was the murder of Elizabeth Short by one person and another helped cover it up?