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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 48 — An Army of One

Posted on March 21, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul (and where is that darn Mogul, anyway?) and the Murder That Transfixed Los … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 46 — Snooze Alarm

Posted on March 19, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 44 — Honored Guests

Posted on March 17, 2018 by lmharnisch

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 43 — Our Far-Flung Correspondents

Posted on March 16, 2018 by lmharnisch

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 42 — The Face Is Familiar

Posted on March 15, 2018 by lmharnisch

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 41 — The Whole Nine Yards

Posted on March 14, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H.Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 39 — Aiding and Abetting

Posted on March 12, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. The original post had ads that, as you can imagine, don’t work 12 years later, so they have been deleted. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 37 — Mystery Woman

Posted on March 9, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe has begun with the butchered, … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 36 — Bust of a Man

Posted on March 8, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have been blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” At this point in … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 34 — Limbo

Posted on March 6, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” At the moment we’re enmeshed in … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 32 — Foxy Grandpa

Posted on March 4, 2018 by lmharnisch

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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 27 — The Pinata Collecting Our Thoughts

Posted on February 27, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. The two-minute executive summary: In analyzing Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles,” we have spent the last week on the … Continue reading →

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Black L.A., 1947: Husband Suspected of Killing Mary Tate

Posted on February 26, 2018 by lmharnisch

Feb. 27, 1947: Terry Tate, of 123 N. San Pedro Street, is arrested in the death of his wife, Mary, at 107 Weller Street, described by the Sentinel as a rooming house or hotel. Tate was strangled and beaten … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging “Black Dahlia Files” Part 26 — Missing Man Formation

Posted on February 26, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Our story so far: I am blogging—in real time—as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files.” It’s been slow going and this is an especially tedious part because I’m examining … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Blogging “Black Dahlia Files” Part 24 — He Walked by Night

Posted on February 25, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Much has been written about poor crowd control at the Black Dahlia crime scene. Here’s an example of LAPD crowd control from the 1948 film “He Walked by Night,” which was the … Continue reading →

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Black L.A., 1947: ‘Milk Bottle Murder’ – Couple’s Fight Ends in Death

Posted on February 20, 2018 by lmharnisch

Feb. 20, 1947: Lois Ellis, victim of the “Milk Bottle Murder.” The neighborhood of 1207 E. 47th St. via Google Street View. From his bed in the jail ward of county hospital, Sam Ellis told of killing his wife, … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Ritual Sacrifice? Now I Have Heard Everything – And My Hair Is On Fire

Posted on February 14, 2018 by lmharnisch

I thought I had heard every possible crackpot idea about the Black Dahlia case (including comments on the blog that aren’t fit for publication). But ritual sacrifice? As Zippy the Pinhead would say: Yow!

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Black Dahlia: Blogging Donald Wolfe’s ‘Black Dahlia Files,’ an Encore From 2006

Posted on February 1, 2018 by lmharnisch

Starting Saturday, I’ll begin reposting all 88 entries that I wrote in 2006 when I blogged in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s awful “The Black Dahlia Files,” a book that refutes Piu Eatwell’s claim in “Black Dahlia, … Continue reading →

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Jan. 18, 1947: L.A. Examiner’s Front Page ‘Crime Box’

Posted on January 18, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is a post I wrote in 2006 for the 1947project. 163 Crimes in 24 Hrs. Here; 86 of Them Thefts In the last 24 hours, 163 crimes were committed in Los Angeles. They were: 86 thefts 42 burglaries … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay: Souvenir of Club Mecca, Site of Deadly 1957 Firebombing

Posted on January 17, 2018 by lmharnisch

A vendor has listed a cocktail napkin advertising four Los Angeles night spots, including the Mecca Cafe at 5841 S. Normandie Ave. Six people were killed when a man who had been thrown out of the club threw a five-gallon … Continue reading →

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