Movies inspired on true stories

In this blog you know I like to post about things that really happened, about unsolved mysteries, some of legends too...

But nothing shocks you more than the movies based on true stories, when you realize that it really happened, and much more if its a horror movie: about a maniacs, catastroph or a nature itself.

I was interested in some characters I met in video games, like the Eddie Gluskin from Outlast, or Bloodyface from AHS series.

So let me begin to explore this type of movies, and hope you enjoy it and maybe you like some of them!

1. The girl nextdoor (2007)

The movie: 

Aunt tortures and abuse her niece, and a neighborhood boy fails to alert the authorities.

The real inspiration:

Based on a Jack Ketchum's novel of the same name, is based on the murder of Sylvia Likens, a 16,years old girl from Indiana in 1965. Sylvia and her sister jenny were left in the care of a family friend, Gertrude Baniszewski, when their parents left town as travelling carnival workers.

Baniszewski, along with her children and a few neighborhood kids, locked Sylvia in the basement, where they tortured and abused her until she died of a brain hemorhage and malnutrition.


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2. Deranged (1974)

Seeing this photo, did it remind you of someone?
So, if you think about Ed Gein, you're right!
This 70's movie relates us a story about this peculiar character,

Did you ever loved someone so much, that you kept their body even after their death? So, this movie is exactly about that! It is inspired on the most notorious serial killer, Ed Gein.


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3. Ravenous (1999)

How would you felt if you had to eat a human meat? This is the most underrated movie about cannibalism which will spook you like nothing else can.

"You are what you eat"

Literally.


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3. Borderland (2007)

Oh, what's next? If you are a psycho, you like gore details, this is just for you, my friend!

Based on a real cult leader Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, this movie has a gory details of how human sacrifice was practiced by the cult. 

!!!Spoiler!!!

Toes, fingers and even brain were cut out by him, and you can watch all of that in this movie.

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4. The dentist (1966)

Ho ho ho.... OMG! I just remember this movie! We rent it one day on the 90`s and as a child, I remember this horrible movie, I don't remember a particular scene, but just a lot of blood and the guy, the dentist, killing their patients.

Just see it before you go to the dentist! ;D

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Hope for your new movie session you will see one of those movies!

Nice watch!

Trenton State Hospital

Originally named New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, has a long history of helping mentally ill patients, and harming them.

Opened in 1848 and welcomed 86 patients. The first superintendent, Horace Buttolph, was a good man, and provided an excellent care for the people in this care. 

Then dr. Henry Cotton took over and the horror began. He began his tenue in 1907, Cotton thought infections caused mental illness. 

To test his theories he removed his patients teeths, limbs or any body parts with the slightest sign of infection.

He continued this practice until 1924, when Cotton was put to a review by a peer board. A well respected psychiatrist, Phyllis Greenacre, provides critical reviews and questioned Cotton's work.

In 1925, the New Jersey State Senate held an investigation and found the doctor provided cutting edge treatment and approved his work. He continued killing patients until 1930, when he retired. The hospital staff continued to remove teeth, limbs and organs through the 1950s.

After his death in 1933 a review found his medical procedures killed 45 o/0 ofhis patients.

When the hospital discontinued his gruesome methods, many wings were abandoned and left to fall into disrepair. Still a fully operational psychiatric hospital and a correctional facility remain on the grounds. Currently, the facility is facing its fair share of controversy.

An analysis of State hospital data (by the express-times) from the 2005 through 2010 shows Trenton recorded the highest rates of violence and patient restraint compared to New Jersey's other state psychiatric  hospitals.
Department of human resources shows that 112(71 o/*)  of the incidents occured in the Trenton State Hospital

Goldfield hotel: paranormal activities

I heard about this hotel recently, and this was really interesting, because of using real cameras and sound.

So first about the hotel, a bit of history:

Is a historic building located at the southeast corner at the Crook Avenue (U.S), Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada.

So, what exactly is it that makes Goldfield Hotel haunted?

 Well, according to legend, room 109 is haunted by a pregnant prostitute named Elizabeth. Supposedly, she was chained to the radiator by George Winfield, the hotel’s original owner. He didn’t want anyone to know he had gotten her pregnant and was afraid she’d tell, ruining his reputation. After giving birth, Elizabeth was left to die in the room and her newborn was disposed of by being thrown down the mine shaft, which the hotel was built over. Since that incident, many people have reported seeing her in room 109. They’ve also felt her presence. Several people have even heard loud cries from a baby. Elizabeth may be a well-known ghost at the hotel, but she’s not the only one. Ghosts of small children playing on the lobby staircase have been reported, in addition to a ghost that randomly stabs hotel visitors. 

Even the ghost of George Winfield has been seen.

Many people, who went to analyse this place after, in our century guys, went with cameras to pretend film something rare. And it was, by sound and some happenings by filming.

Chek out this video from this spanish speaker youtuber, DrossRotzank to listen it:

AHS 6: Roanoke

Wow!!!

Finally I will see american horror story 6th season, I didn't saw the 5th I should, and maybe I will see it, but the fact is that there is Lady Gaga...but the plot is one of my favourites, the hotel with dark visitants and so much to explore...

But this one seems very cool!! Just seeing those images, I like it even more!!!

Cindy James: terrifying case

Sincerly, if you read this, you think that she was mentally ill, and I am one those who think it.

So, let's begin with the story:

In Vancouver, British columbia, in an abandoned house, was found a female body drugged and strangled, her hands and feets were tied behind her back.

The victim was forty-four-year-old nurse, called Cindy James.

Cindy reported nearly a hundred incidents of harassment beginning four months after she left her husband. According to her friend, Agnes Woodcock, she said bizarre notes began to appear on her doorstep.

Cindy also hired a private investigator, changed her last name, moved to a new house, painted her car... 

Through the investigation, there was blood on the driver's side door of the car, and the items of the wallet were under the car. Two weeks later her body was found in an abandoned house It looked like she was brutally murdered. 

The investigation determined that she died of an "unknown event". Cindy's parents never doubted that their daughter was murdered. 

Through the investigation the suspect was her ex-husband, Roy Makepeace. 

The case is unsolved.

Paraphilias

What is a philia? 

A philia is a inconscenous love to something, you may know the pedophilia, love to children (in sexual sense). So there are many of the types, but I would name some srangest of them and maybe not so famous.

1. DGS

DGS, or transcript as Dorian Grey Syndrome, characterized by a man's extreme pride in his personal apperence and the fitness of the physique, also by it narcissistic character traits, and the immaturity of arrested development.

Those people tend to preserve the youth and consume a lot of cosmethic, hair restoration, anti-impotence drugs and cosmetic surgery.

We can see a lot of old man and women that tries to keep the youth, by doing extreme surgeries, putting alot of make-up, .... But seriously, often it seems not so good as they think.

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2. Necrofilia

This is a most famous philia, If someone yet didn't know about it, here you go: 

Necrofilia is a sexual desire for dead bodies. 

Is also seem in animals. Like dolphins.

Pretty creepy!!!

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3. Vorarefilia or canibalism

Armin Meiwes on the right

Armin Meiwes, the most famous case from the Deep web: he was on a forum called "Cannibal café", where people search for each other to being eaten by others or eat another person. Armin was arrested for eat another person, thaat he found in a forum, and this was not a victim, because this person free volunteered for this action . They also made a videotape showing the process of their "meeting". 

I don't know the victim's name, if you want to know, just search a little bit on the internet.

Le Loyon

Le Loyon

There is a creepy man in a gas mask over his face seems to be "haunting" the place.

The witnessess told that they saw the man walking on the same path every day. When he encounter someone, he just stayed and watched the person in silence, and then walk away.

A photographer who tried to took pictures of him, told that he seems to be 2 metres (6'6") in heigh.

Nobody knows why he doesn't speak or wear the mask, maybe he can have  skin desease and because of that he doesn't want people look at him.

Remind me of Slenderman, but in a mask. 

BIID and Cotard syndrome

I first heard about the BIID syndrome from the creepypasta BARBIE.avi

But it really exist. Because of that, this creepypasta turn you to see it even more creepy.

Body integrity identity disorder or BIID. Also refers to amputee body parts. People who had this syndrome, think they would live happier whithout a part of their body.

http://www.biid.org/

Orphanates: horror stories

There was sexual abuse and body abuse not only in asylums, but in orphanates too.

This time, the kids are who suffer, without chance to talk about or report it.

Generally, it happened in XX century, but I am not sure about the actual years, but some of them do happened in XX century.

I will mention the worst of them, but you can do a search for yourself to read articles, and have a better idea of that.

1. Ungerini "Home for incurables" (Romania)

Ungerini is just one of the many Romanian orphanages that became flooded with children after former dictator Nicolae Ceausecu banned abortion and contraceptives, and imposed a "celibacy tax" in 1960s. By the 1989, 170,000 children lived in orphanages.

According to Patreascu Peberdy, his early childhood in the orphanage had been a nightmarish experience. He was left tied to a cot that he shared with another boy, Iulian, who later died from the long-term abuse he had suffered.

After Peberdy was adopted, it tool 13 surgeries to correct the deformities he sustained during his years at the orphanage. When his adoptive parents found him, he was suffering from polio and malnutrition, and had been confined to a "dying room".

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/world/europe/10romania.html?_r=0

2. Mazanovsky Orphanage (Russia, 2013)

You need just to see this, there is a real video from there, sharing how they treated the children.

This orphanate gained notoriety after a footage emerged showing orphans being brutally beaten. In the video, two adolescent "carers" are seen whipping and kicking seven young boys. The video was anonymously realesed to the local media.

When asked about the abuse by another employee at the Mazanovsky orphanage, one of the offenders allegedly said: "I was beaten in the orphanage, and I'm going to beat them too".

Shocking, that's the only thing that could be said.

The video:

Insane asylums of the past

Reading this article, I was just replaying Outlast !! They made it so real, as it was in the past.

Just read the reasons to be admitted in the asylum

1. Lobotomy

It was one of the most used treatements used to patients, it wouls result the patient became zombie, with no expression. 

2. Electroconvulsive therapy

Also known as shock therapy, the patients were subject to electric shocks to numb all their feelings and cure their illness.

2. Horrible conditions

Those who could not control themself, where hold in cages for days or even months or years.

Some asylums held as many as ten times the amount of patients it could hold and some just had only three attendees for these patients, leaving them to sleep in filth and their own excrement.

3. Left naked

The patiets were left naked and with no activity. There was no cleanliness and the patients were left to wallow in their own filth. 

The hospital were build to hold 2500 patients, but hold 6000 with o care and facilities.

4. Unquilifyied staff

There were small number of trained stuff, so they employed help from whenever they got it, no matter of the qualifications.

Blackwell prison hired prisoners to take care of the patients.

And the rest you know, terrible experiments made in patients, terrible facilities> patients were left in darkness at night, 

Most brutal medieval torture devices

The fans of the game "Amnesia: the dark descent", would know about the bull and the Iron Maiden.

And no, I am not talking about the metal band xD

Most of people think that humanity is a good os out world, but those structres just confirm us that it's not.

I always think, that people is just stupid, they create more and more torture machines, when they should think about to create more machines that would help people in medical ways, cience. 

Let's go:

1. The brazen bull

image from the game "Amnesia: the dark descent"

It was designed in ancient Greece. This is a solid piece of brass was cast with a door on the side that could be opened and latched. The victim would be placed inside the bull and a fire set underneath it until the metal became literally yellow as it was heated. The victim would then be slowlyroasted to death all while screaming in agonizing pain. The bull was purposely designed to amplify these screams and make them sound like the bellowing of a bull.

2. The Judas cradle

This punishment has the victim sitting on the pyramid-shaped cradle, after which they would be forced down on it by ropes with the intent of stretching the victim's orifice over a long period of ime, slowly impaling them. To add more pain, the victim was usually naked and the device was rarely washed. So if the torture did not kill you, the infection contracted from it would.

This device was also shown in the game "Amnesia: the dark descent".

3. Iron maiden

The torture consist in closing the person into the structure, when in there, the victim was unable to move due to the great number of steel spikes impaling them from every direction. The interrogator would scream questions at the victim while poking them with jagged edges.

This device was also shown in the game "Amnesia: the dark descent".

4. Breast ripper

Used to cause major blood loss, the claws, which were often red hot, would be placed on the exposed breasts as the spikes penetrated beneath the skin. It would be then pulled or jerked causing large chunks or flesh to come off with it.

Hotel with invalid women for rich clients

In Congo republic, Africa, was found a hotel, where, secretly, was given sexual services of invalid women.

And not only in Africa, there are other countries where are people that search for young girls.

The women between 15 and 40 years old were kidnapped and brought into a operating room, where a doctor cut them, in preference of the client, their hands or feets. 

The tourist girls were found by strangers, who propose them to go and drink something, then they were druged and brought to the doctor, who cut them body parts.

When those places were found, and the girls were finally free, most of them don't even want to live, because they hadn't hands, legs, or both.

The most required girls were those, who hasn't legs and hands, they were like dolls.

Little killers: children who killed someone

When we think on a child, we imagine a happy, little person, who play with friends and just be a nice kid.

But those are rather pictures of the 50's, because nowadays there are real murders made by kids.

1. Christian Fernandez

When he was two years old, he was found naked and dirty while his drandmother, who was taking care of him, was holded up cocaine in a hotel room, while his 14 years-old mother can be found nowhere, 

Christian was sexually assaulted by his cousin, and beaten by his stepfather, who committed suicide before police arrived to investigate.

In 2011, Christian was charged with a first-degree murder after the beating death of his 2-year-old half-brother. He was also charged with the sexual abuse of his 6-year-old half-brother.

In 2013, Christian was condemned until he will reach 19 years-old.

2. Mary Bell

In May 1968, Mary strangled a four-year-old Martin Brown in a derelict house, Scotswood, England.

In July of the same year, Mary and her friend Norma Joyce Bell (no family relation) who was 13, strangled and mutilated 3-year-old Brian Howe.

An open verdict was originally been recorder for Brown's death as there was no evidence of foul play - although bell had strangled him, her grip was not hard to hard enough to leave any marcs.  

Eventually, his death was linked to Howe's killing, and in August 1968, the girls were charged with two counts of manslaughter. 

A Home Office psychiatrist told the court Mary had a psychopatic disorder for which she needed a treatement. However, a detective chief inspector who interrogated Mary found her to be "very cunning and insiduous".

As the verdict was read out, Mary broke down. Norma was acquitted and Mary Bell  was convincted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsability.

Since her realese from prison in 1980, Mary's identity has been prtected by a court order, which has also been extended to protect the identity of her daughter, born in May 25, 1984.

3. Jon Vanables and Robert Thompson

This is, maybe, a most famous case of two young boys who killed a little boy.

In 1993, James Bulger was missing, he had been coaxed away from his mother and walked right out of public area by two 10-year-old boys. 

They took him on a 2.5. mile walk to a semi-secluded area in Liverpool, along some railrode tracks by an old cementery. That's where the two boys killed him.

They threw pain in his left eye, hit him with bricks, beat him with an iron bar, and shoved batteries into his mouth. They beat him so severaly that a coroner could not determine which of the blows was the fatal one.before leaving, boys laid Bulger out across the train tracks and weighed him down so that he couldn't move, hoping that a train would come and cut him in half. It was so.

The remains were found two days later, and after much investigating through the region, the two boys were identified  and brought before the court.

The two were sentenced to remain in custody until they turned 18, but were realeased in 2001. They were even given a witness-protection-style relocation and name-change. 

4. Joshua Phillips

He was a 14 years old in 1998 when his 8 year old neighbor went missing.

After a week, his mother begun to notice an unpleasant odor emanating from inderneath his bed. 

What she found wasn't anything she had expected to see in her life: the missing girl, dead, bloody, leaking fluids and beaten to a pulp.

When she questioned her son, he said that he had accidentally hit the girl in her eye with a baseball; she had begun to scream and he panicked, hitting her with the bat.

His story was more than a bit incomplete, since he failed to explain why he had to bludgeon the girl to death, or stab her 11 times, or hide her body under his bed afterward. A Florida jury didn't believe him, either, and he was convicted of first-degree murder.

4chan

Here you have the link

http://www.4chan.org/

I actually didn't browse in this page, but there can be many of horror things deep inside, if you have enough time - you can explore it, maybe you find anything horrible, and if so, you can comment it and share for the audience!))

There are a lot of things that came from 4chan, like those photos of naked celebrities xD i don't know if they are really from 4chan, but this site is really deep and interesting. Actually there were many of real happenings, like murders and suicides that those people have posted there. 

For more information, you can search for videos in youtube or explore it by yourself, that will be more exciting !! xD

High Royds Hospital, Menston, West Yorkshire, England

It was first opened in 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic asylum. 

Treatment of the Victorian patient ranged from opium, the main sedative in the mid 19th century, to laudanum, bromide to chloral hydrate. Physical treatment included turkish or hot baths, wet sheet packs and electric stimulations.

Experience in hospitals wasn't required, if you were phisycally fit and be a good sportsman or able to play a musical instrument you were very likely to be offered a position. 

At one time the asylum included: ballroom, library, surgery, dispensary, butcher's, baker's, diary, even a ballroom. 

Ed Gein: psycho murderer

Do you know the character from Outlast: Whistleblower, Eddie Gluskin?

Well, the creators were inspired in this real assassin, Ed Gein.

Ed Gein

Autorities discovered tha Gein had axhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophie and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gin confessed to killing two women, Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden. 

Edward was shy, and classmates and teachers remembered him as having strange mannerisms, such as seemingly random laughter, as if he were laughing at his own personal jokes. He was sometimes bullied. To make matters worse, his mother punished him whenever he tried to make friends. Despite his poor social development, he did fairly well in school, particulary in reading.

Crimes

On November 16, 1957, Plainfield hardware store owner bernice Worden disappeared, and police had reason to suspect Gein.  Worden's son told investigators that Gein had ben in the store the evening before the disappearence, saying he would return the next morning for a gallon of anti-freeze. 

Upon searching Gein's property, investigators discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed, hung upside down by roped at the wrists, with a crossbar at her ankles. The torso was dressed out like a deer. She had been shot with a 22-caliber rifle, and the mutilations were made after her death.

Searching the house, authorities found:

-whole human bones and fragments

- Wastebasket made of human skin

- Human skin covering several chair seats

- Skulls on his bedposts

-  Leggings made of human leg skin

- Masks made of human female heads

- Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag

- Mary Hogan's skull in a box

- A belt made of female human nipples

- Four noses

- A lampshade made of the skin of a human face

- Fingernails from female fingers

Eddie told investigators that between 1947 and 1952, he made as many as 40 visits to graveyards to exhume recently buried bodies while he was in a daze-like state. On about of those 30 visits, he said he came out of the daze while in the cementery, left the grave in good order, and returned home emptyhanded. On other occasions, he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother and took the bodies home, where he tanned their skins to make his paraphernalia. 

Soon after his mother's death, Gein began to create a "woman suit" - he could became his mother - to literally crawl her skin. 

Trial

On November 21, 1957, Gein was arraigned on one count of first degree murder in Wisconsin County Court, where he pled not guilty by reason of insanity. Found mentally incompetent and thus until for trial, Gein was sent to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, a maximum-security facility in Waupun, Wisconsin, and later transferred to the Mendota State hospital in madison, Wisconsin. He was diagnosed with schizofrenia. the doctors determined Gein was "mentally able to confer with counsel and participate in his defense".

Gein was found guilty of first-degree murder by judge Robert H. Gollmar on November 14. A second trial dealt with Gein's sanity, after testimony by doctors for the rosecution and defense, Gollmar ruled Gein "not guilty by reason of insanity" and ordered him committed to Central state Hospital for the criminally insane. 

"Due to prohibitive costs", Judge Gollmar wrote, "Gein was tried for only one murder, that of Mrs. Worden. He also admitted to killing mary Hogan".

Death

On July 26, 1984, gein died of respiratory failure due to lung cancer at the age of 77 on Stovall Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute. His grave site in the Plainfield Cementery was frequently vandalized over the years; souvenir seekers chipped off pieces of his gravestone beforethe bulk was stolen in 2000. The gravestone was recovered in June 2001 near Seattle and is now in storage at the Waushara County Sheriff's Department.  

Ed Gein creations

 Eddie Gluskin, character in Outlast: Whistleblower game, inspired on Ed Gein

Things he does to a victim

I just remebered that in AHS Asylum, there was the murderer who made things with human skin, and I thought that it could be inspired in Eddie too, and RIGHT!! it was!! 

Remeber the bloodyface murder? Who had a mask, made of human skin, lamps and other things in his storage made of human skin?

  I couldn't made better screenshot, but in this room he had all kind of stuff to make things with human skin.

Then he had Lana as his slave, and then as his "mother", he told her to call him his baby, or something like that.

Unsolved: mysterious cases of unsolved phonecalls

The Kuykendall family Harasser

In 2006, a 16 year old Courtney Kuykendall's phone started sending out random text messages to her friends. 

Soon someone started to call the and told that he will kill them, their pets and their grandparents. They told abut this to the police, and the investigation told that the the calls were coming from the same phone they were coming to.

The obvious suspect was Courtney, but even when her phone was turned off, the calls continued to coming.

But the things just got worst: whoever was calling, knew all the things about the family: what they were doing or what they were wearing.

The stalker left a voice message with recorded conversations that the family does, also the day when the police had visited them. This continued for four month.  The cell phone company  didn't think that the technology to hijack existed at the time. 

However, the police said that the cell phone could be hijacked by a spyware. The police thought that the family could have been making a story up, but similar cases had happened in other families with their cell phones. 

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The abduction and murder of Amy Mihaljevic

The police always go to schoold to told children not to go with strangers anywhere. 

The problem with Amy was, that her kidnapper was not a stranger to her. They talked by phone few times. The stranger told her that her mother knows him. Amy even told her friends about a stranger, but not to any adult that he was calling her. 

That day Amy told her friend she was meeting her secret caller to go buy her mother a present.  After Amy met the man, he allowed her to call her mother, who assumed she was calling from home. It was only after she arrived home that she realized that Amy had never been there. 

A search for Amy was done. But, sadly, the girl's body was not found until February 7, 1990. her head had signs of trauma, and it appeared that she was probably sexually assaulted and stabbed. It also looked like the body was dumped a short time after she was kidnapped. The barbaric murder made national headlines and was features on America's most wanted. Yet, no one has ever been arrested in connection with the crime. Investigators are still hoping to track down the mystery caller.

Lost boy Larry, August 1973

New Mexico CB operators recieved a signal from a young boy, who was pleading for help, he said he was trapped in a pickup with his father, and told them that he might be dead fro a heart attack. 

According to Larry, his father took him to a hunting trip, but something happed on the road the the car overtuned into a gully, jamming the driver and the passenger side doors. 

The boy was no idea where they are, without food or water. Larry's signal was fading in and out. The investigatora begin to search for him in New Mexico, where local police and state police believed the signal originated. Thousands of civilian volunteers were helping to search for the boy, but the volunteers and the police were leading to frustration.

Larry's signal was running out of battery. The newspapers and TV stations picked up the story. Some jokers were mimicking his voice over the airwaves, adding to the chaos. 

By august 12, no sign was found, and nobody was searching for Larry.

However, no one has ever come forward to claim responsability and no suspects were named. 

Did Larry died in a car, trapped? Were Larry's cries for help a joke? 

The mystery remains unsolved.

"Black Dahlia": murder of Eliabeth Short

It still as an unsolved murder. 

The body of Elizabeth was found on the morning of January 15, 1947. 

Her nude body was found in two pieces on a vacant lot, on the west side of South Norton Avenue  midway between Coliseum Street and West 39th street, in Los Angeles.

Her body was mutilated at the waist and drained entirely of blood. Is was obviously washed by the killer, the face had been slashed from the corners of her mouth to her ears, creating an effect called the Glasgow smile. 

According to newspaper reports shortly after murder, Elizabeth Short recieved the nickname "Black Dahlia" at a Long beach, California drugstore in mid 1946 as wordplay on the fim "The Blue Dahlia". Los Angeles County district attorney investigators' reports state that the nickname was invented by newspaper reporters covering the murder. Los Angeles Herald-Express reporter Bevo Means, who interviewed Short's acquaintances at the drug store, is credited with first using "Black Dahlia" name.

A popular portrayal amongst her acquaintances and many true-crime authors was on Short as a call-girl, or prostitute, The Los Angeles district attorney's grand jury proved there was no existing evidence that she was ever a prostitute, and the district attorney's office attributes the claim to confusion with another woman with the same name. 

About 60 people confessed to the murder, mostly men. Of those, 25 were considered viable suspects by the Los Angeles District Attorney. Some of the original 25 were eliminated, and several new suspects were proposed. 

Some authors proposed a theory of relation of this murder with the Cleveland Torso murders, which took place in Cleveland between 1934 and 1938. Nevertheless, new evidence implicating a former Cleveland torso murder suspect, Jack Anderson Wilson (a.k.a. Arnold Smith), was investigated by Detective Jihn P. St. John in 1980 in connection with Short's death. St. John claimed he was close to arresting Wilson for the murder of Short, but Wilson died in a fire on February 4, 1982.

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You can see a mention of Black Dahlia in AHS: the murder house, she was a patient of the psychologist.  :)