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A beautiful, vibrant young woman—sexually injudicious, possibly fixated on Hollywood fame and known for her ebony wardrobe—discovered in a vacant, weedy Los Angeles lot her glamorous looks slashed into a grotesque death mask, her slender body mauled, sliced and severed into two separate pieces. The unthinkably savage nature of the slaying, the lovely allure of the victim who was tagged with the evocative nickname “The Black Dahlia,” and the taunting letters to the media from the mysterious killer made the murder into a horrific sensation in 1947. And as it went unsolved over the decades, gaining myth, legend and lies in the retelling, the case has evolved into Hollywood’s own version of Jack the Ripper, shocking and entrancing anyone who delves into its mysteries.