Hawthorne, Inglewood and points North.
"Never heard of him," the tall man barked. He took my card, didn't even glance at me, and went back into his office. His door closed on the pneumatic closer and made a sound like "phooey." Miss Fromsett gave me a sweet sad smile and I gave it back to her in the form of an obscene leer. I ate another cigarette and more time staggered by. --Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake (1943).
We begin where we always begin, the center of the Universe, 3852 Norton Ave in good old L.A. The Black Dahlia Dizoma as it looked early in the afternoon of January 15, 1947. The body is aligned to North and South, yet the upper torso has been severed and placed on an offset, creating nothing so much as an huge "X" in the spaces where her body parts would have joined. In a modern crime scene investigation, the site would have been marked out in grid sections, and overhead photos taken, which would make this kind of thing instantly recognizable, even to the untrained eye. That said, I don't know much about what the LAPD did, or didn't do, since the files are being kept shut up, for whatever reason. But, until they become a little more sensitive to their responsibilies to a still curious public, we're just going to have to slog along the old fashioned way, and try to solve this case with our wits. It couldn't hurt. and there may still be some reward money floating around out there, too.
The nude covered body  Looking from east to west.
Now we turn our attention to the south of L.A County, and if I'm catching on to the general drift of things here, I wanted to see another muni airport, or an SP railroad junction, sure enough, I found both. I'm gonna spare you all the blah, blah, blah and just post the data. Remember, if you're followng along on your street maps, that the altitude messes with land lines so the rules of perspective are off, and that all maps involve some form of mathmetical projection or other. I have allowed for that in my computations, so be assured, the locations are as close as you can get, and remember that large areas such as airports contain an already infinite number of possible coordinate pairs, so sometimes, I just used the effing street address.
Reading South to North:
Loc.#7: Northrup & Crenshaw Blvd., Hawthorne, CA.: (33.9228/-118.3351) Hawthorne Municipal Airport [Jack Northrop Field].
Loc.#6: 1050 S. Prarie Av., Inglewood, CA.: (33.9617/-18.3519) Hollywood Park Race Track [Paddock area?].
Loc.#1: 3852 Norton Av., Los Angeles, CA.: (34.0149/-18.3329) Norton Dumpsite. [West side of street].
Loc.#8: 4625 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.: (34.0665/-18.3319) Los Angeles High Memorial Park.
Loc.#9 6300 Forest Lawn Dr., Los Angeles, CA.:(34.1500/-118.3278) Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. [Within perimeter].
Is the killer trying to tell us something, and if so, what? Every single professional criminal profiler who has looked, has thought the crime scene of tremendous importance to the killer, that is betrayed to us through the pure shock value of the display, then the killer recedes, waiting to see how we react. He's out there, and he has several more messages, for the papers, the public, and the LAPD. Perhaps the killer and the disposer of the body are not the same person? There's no way to prove it either way. Not without the LAPD's files anyhow.
The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci
"Whatever the reason, Norton Avenue was a deliberate choice." --Larry Harnish
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