Friday, August 10, 2007

Eureka! "I have found it" --Archimedes "[I] found the body on the west side of Norton. From Coliseum to 39 on the property line is 1200 feet, it's all vacant property. There is a fire plug in the center of that which would be 600 feet from Coliseum or 600 feet from 39 the other way. The body was 54 feet north of the fire plug toward Coliseum. --Det. Lt. Jesse W. Haskins, LAPD Out of University Division,  Haskins' testimony to the coroner's inquest is a textbook example of how to give out the sort of information which can be of persistant use in cold cases, the result of it's clairity. The phrase;"The body was 54 feet north of the fire plug..." is perfectly concise, though he goes on to add "...toward Coliseum", which is redundant. This then, would be the critical factite that allowed me to locate the correct address of the house that stands on the S. Norton Av. dumpsite today. Which in it's turn, gave me the data I needed to determine the exact map coordinates of the dumpsite, and using Google Maps function, place it down to within a tolerance of two feet. All of this was done with no assistance on the ground in Los Angeles. An internet first. Location, location, location. This cat knew the city like a hack. He knew it better than the cops, themselves. So well in fact, that he couldn't help himself. He had to posit his great riddle twelve miles deep in the alluvial sand of the cracked L.A. Basin. This would, sixty years and some six months later, finally trip him up, and expose the whole truth about the murder of Bette Short, and the suicide in March of 1947, of the murderer, himself. Her lover, Edwin F. Burns, out in the cold Pacific Ocean, somewhere off Venice Beach.  Sand Sculpture, Venice Beach, CA. 10:00:01 AM    comment