Rafie Juliano Devito

1806174465 – KKI On the morning of January 15, 1947, a mother taking her child for a
walk in a Los Angeles neighborhood stumbled upon a gruesome sight:
the body of a young naked woman sliced clean in half at the waist. The body was just a few feet
from the sidewalk and posed in such a way that the mother reportedly thought it was a
mannequin at first glance. Despite the extensive mutilation and cuts on the body, there wasn’t a
drop of blood at the scene, indicating that the young woman had been killed elsewhere.1

The ensuing investigation was led by the L.A. Police Department. The FBI was asked to
help, and it quickly identified the body—just 56 minutes, in fact, after getting blurred
fingerprints via “Soundphoto” (a primitive fax machine used by news services) from Los
Angeles. The young woman turned out to be a 22-year-old Hollywood hopeful named Elizabeth
Short—later dubbed the “Black Dahlia” by the press for her rumored penchant for sheer black
clothes and for the Blue Dahlia movie out at that time. Short’s prints actually appeared twice in
the FBI’s massive collection (more than 100 million were on file at the time)—first, because she
had applied for a job as a clerk at the commissary of the Army’s Camp Cooke in California in
January 1943; second, because she had been arrested by the Santa Barbara police for underage
drinking seven months later. The Bureau also had her “mug shot” in its files and provided it to
the press.2

This leads to violence against women because the perpetrator sliced her body into pieces,
this may be escalated by the culture that are expressed in the United States, by producing gory-
like movies from Hollywood that shows blood, mutilation and other violence. The law against
this stated in the ICC in Article 340 concerning premeditated murder reads; "Anyone who
intentionally and with a plan to seize the lives of others first is threatened with a death sentence
or imprisonment for life or for a certain period of time of a maximum of 20 years.” When the
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1
"The Black Dahlia." FBI. May 18, 2016. Accessed March 18, 2019.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/the-black-dahlia.
2
Ibid.