 The Big Red Line 
Los Angeles is an abstraction. Hollywoodland, where the very streets spin, and dodge and dance, up, down, and around the hills, and in, and out of the canyons like crazed damselfish. All our comfortable Cartesian order is bent, and subuducted down in the shimmering summer haze, or forgotten on dreary, fogbound winter nights. It's easy to get lost in L.A.
The Big Tarpit has taken in all comers for four hundred years now, only a few have ever escaped from it's more infernal corners. The terminator, one end of the line that would cut poor young Betty Short right in two as it passed on right through her hacked, naked body, and continues, dead down east, 90° by dead reckoning, from her dumpsite in a vacant lot to the corner of S. 24th. St. and S. Alameda Av., a place called Clement Junction. The other end of the Dahlia line, and the other end of reason.
Hypothesis:
The precise location of the placement of the body of Elizabeth Short, presumably by her killer, is a clue from which certain facts may be deduced. To determine this we will use this tool: http://www.batchgeocode.com/lookup/
The killer has given us one location, the one he wanted everyone to share with him, for reasons that hopefully soon will become apparent, we'll call it location one for now.
Location #1: 3825 S. Norton yields the Geocode result: Lat: 34.0149/Lon:-118.333061
Now, I know what you're thinking, punks. What now? Now that we know where we are, what are we going to do? Go east young man. Why east? It's one of the Cardinal Compass points. We can only follow one of those at a time. It's also ideomatic in L.A. that you won't get that far headed west. We are looking for anything to use as a point of reference. East then, for starters. Ho' mule!
Whoa, mule! 5.36 land miles, or five nautical miles, exactly. Clement Junction? I had never heard of the place, but the name sure the hell is familiar. Clement, Maurice. Suspect #7. "The likely typo", from the 1949 Grand Jury's report. Ok then:
Location #2: S. 24th. St. & S. Alameda yields. Lat: 34.0158/Long:-118.2397.
Close, but not much more than a coincidence. In order to eventually prove the hypothesis we need to seek another point on the line. To find this point we subtract, L1-L2 and divide the remainder by two and add it back to L2. (3330-2397=943); (943/2=47.01);(239+47=287). L3= Lat.34.0149/Long.-118.2870.
To determine this location we need this tool: http://ashburnarcweb.esri.com/livesamples/v2/reversegeocoding/index.jsp
The result is 652 N. Coliseum Dr., now we check by entering the data into the forward batch coder above and the result is Exposition Park, L.A. Memorial Coliseum, Peristile Row.
Data recapitulation:
L1= 34.0158/-118.333
L2= 34.0149/-118.239
L3= 34.0146/-118.287
Proof:
All three locations lie on exactly the same arc of latitude.
Locations #1 and #2 are each exactly 120 minutes of longitude distant.
Location #3 is exactly 60 minutes of longitude east of location #1.
Location #3 is exactly 60 minutes of longitude west of location #2
The line segment L1-L3 is 2.68 miles in length.
The line segment L3-L2 is 2.68 miles in length.
Deduction:
The precise location of the placement of the body was in no way an accident, but the result of careful planning, and flawless execution of the nearly perfect crime.
8:55:46 AM 
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