In early December Elizabeth left Los Angeles to stay with a lady named Dorothy French, who lived in San Diego. She stayed with the family till she was asked to leave in January. While in San Diego Elizabeth met Robert Manley. He was a twenty five year old and married, working salesman. When she was asked to leave the French home, Manley was the one who drove her in downtown Los Angeles to the Biltmore hotel. Short was to meet up with her sister once she got to the hotel. Robert walked Ms. Short to the hotel lobby, where he left her at 6:30 p.m. and headed back to his home. Once Elizabeth said her goodbyes to Robert, where she went is unknown. On January 15, 1947; Elizabeth Short was found dead, her body left in a vacant lot on the South Norton Avenue between Coliseum and 39thStreet. Betty Bersinger was running an errand with her three year old daughter when they discovered what appeared to be a mannequin. Once Bersinger realized that the mannequin, she ran to a house nearby and called the police. Once the police arrived upon the scene, they found the body of a young women who had been displayed face up on the ground with arms over her head, bisected and the lower half placed a foot away from her torso. Her legs There was hardly any blood at the crime scene, which meant that whoever killed her washed her body before taking her to the vacant lot. The scene of the crime was filled quickly with people from the neighborhood, reporters and bystanders. The scene was out of control, distorting whatever evidence was possibly available. Once an autopsy was done, the body wasidentified as Elizabeth Short. Robert Manley was one out of the nearly two hundred suspects that received questioning by the police. A mysterious package was delivered to a local newspaper, which was believed to be from the killer. Inside the envelope they found Elizabeth Short’s address book, and one page was ripped out. It is said that the page that was ripped out was to be the page which had her killer’s information. Between 1934 and 1938, thirteen bodies that were mutilated where discovered in surrounding areas of Cleveland. The bodies where dismembered just like The Black Dahlia case that happens nine years later. Some say the Elliot Ness knows the Slayer’s true identity, but Ness had not enough information to charge him with. The man, who was thought to be the Slayer was given two lie detector tests and both times the suspect failed. Soon the suspect voluntarily committed himself to a mental hospital, after the polygraphs. At the same time, the Torso Slayings abruptly stopped in Cleveland. A few years later Ness received a letter from the Slayer saying how he left Cleveland and is now in California getting ready to advance science. The police determine that Short had been tortured for at least several hours before being killed. The killer was never identified by Eliot Ness. Ness took the name with murder to his grave.