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Web Site Comments
As you can imagine, I get a great deal of comments about this site. I'm willing to post the good with the bad.
5/30/98; E-mail:"Ms. Hazelton has captured the very essence of the Black Dahlia Case by her stunningly brilliant web page. She has done what the police, the press journalists, and the general public have never had the insight to do - put forth the information known about the life and death of Elizabeth Short without all of the prejudice editorializing and speculation that has haunted this case for so long. If Elizabeth Short is anything she is indeed the vivid example of why bad things happen to good people. The Black Dahlia was murdered over fifty years ago and yet she continues to beckon all of us to her for many different reasons. In police work and in the courts the "why" is not generally a requisite element in proving a crime has been committed. The why rarely has solved a crime. It is human nature that needs to know the why. Perhaps no one will ever know who was responsible for the death of Elizabeth Short or the true manner in which she was killed. It is nearly irrelevant these many years later. Every few minutes somewhere in our world someone is standing over a found body and the cycle begins again. It is my opinion that Ms. Hazelton deserves the utmost credit and gratitude for producing this web site. Maybe she has in fact solved the puzzle of the Black Dahlia case each of us is to be left to our own interpretation of the evidence. Perhaps Ms. Hazelton knows the crime can never be solved that there will always be speculation and conjecture surrounding the death of the Black Dahlia. But Ms. Hazelton has done justice by Elizabeth Short in any event. 5/8/98; E-mail: "As a student of unsolved mysteries, I was curious to learn more about this case. I found your site to be very informative and thorough, and I appreciate this opportunity to learn more about this unfortunate young woman's murder. Perhaps this case intrigues so many of us because Elizabeth Short reminds us of our own vulnerability and the ultimate price we may have to pay for following our dreams." 5/6/98; E-mail: "I didn't know about the case until I moved - by complete chance - to Medford, MA in order to do a fellowship year at Harvard. I live just off Salem Street in Medford and often walk along it to Medford Square where I catch the Harvard bus. The monument to Beth Short shown in photo on your web site is on the opposite side of Salem Street that I normally walk. One day just a few weeks back, for a change of pace I walked on that side. Curiosity got the best of me as to what the monument was for so I stopped and read it. Imagine my surprise that the house Short grew up in had been located along the very route I walked every day, although I-93 being built caused all the houses in that spot to be destroyed. This increased my curiosity and using an internet search engine I found your site. 4/7/98; E-mail:"Your site was a huge inspiration for me when I was doing research for a film project on that time period having to deal with a similar murder in another part of the country. When my grandmother read my script she was reminded of the murder here in Los Angeles of a young starlet Elizabeth Short, she remembered alot of the hysteria and being an actress herself a lot of fear. That is when I found your site. Anonymous 4/6/98; E-mail:"Since buying the game Black Dahlia I am too fascinated with the story of this poor woman. This is terribly exciting - you may , in fact, solve the case using the technology police worldwide should embrace - the ability to reach so many people at once. There's always someone in every crime who's been given the information that will solve the case, as criminals always seem so quick to brag about their good work and not being caught. Anonymous 3/18/98; E-mail: "Finis Brown was right about men becoming obsessed with the murder of Elizabeth Short. I, too, fall under that category.(I write on the side, about 10 years ago I had created a short story that was inspired by Elizabeth and this case. A few years down the line I looked at it again and found it to be of the garbage variety. Fortunately, instead of tossing it, I am using the story as a springboard for a screenplay entitled, "Stairway to the Stars." ) I remember first hearing about it in passing when the TV movie first aired in 1975. But it never really registered until I read Hollywood Babylon II in 1985. I could not understand why a young, beautiful woman would be killed in such a brutal manner. But the savagery of her death and the sadness that was her life drew me to her, reaching out to touch her soul. In so doing I dug up everything I could on her; immersing myself in the music of the time, talking to John St. John and Mary Humphrey, even eventually visiting her grave in late March of 1993. Like it or not, she has been an indirect influence. And an inspiration. I found Severed in a local bookstore and snatched it up. I did not expect to find the number of explicit photographs of Elizabeth at the crime scene and post-mortem. I also did not expect to find them here at the site. I personally would have preferred to use my imagination, but what can I do now that I have seen them? I am going to get the revised version of the book as soon as it is released and I look forward to the movie. 3/17/98; E-mail: "I, for one, think your site is extremely well done and informative. Considering how old this murder is and unavailability of information from the LAPD, I would say you have done an excellent job of research into the case. I find the case fascinating, but then, I am an ex-cop who has been involved in homicide investigations myself while I was involved in law enforcement. I was wondering? How do you know that the "relative" of the Black Dahlia was "really" a true blood relative? The one that made threats to sue, etc. if you didn't remove photo's from this site. Maybe it was just some clown and not a "real" relative at all. I was just wondering if you investigated this so called relative's background. Well, anyway, I think your page is very good and well done. If anything, in my opinion anyway, I would like to see MORE photo's of the crime scene and body than you presently have on your site. For what its worth (my opinion that is). Keep up the research!!!!!!! Great job!!!!! - Greg Olsen In regard to the question about the relative, this all checked out. She is a relative. - Pamela
9/21/97; E-mail: While attending Thousand Oaks High School in 1979, there was a teacher there who claimed to have been a part of the investigation. I cannot remember his name, although Mr. Graves somehow rings a bell. He was quite old at the time, and I will never forget the day he told us of this story. Why he told a classroom of impressionable freshmen, I will never know. As I recall, he passed around real photos (what appeared to be aged, original photos) of a mug shot of Elizabeth and a shot of the crime scene. After 17 years, I happened to find the story on the web. I guess I never knew the scope of this case. Guess I was a lucky student. - C. Dawson If you would like to make a comment, click here.
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