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>On the morning of January 15, 1947, Short's naked body, severed into two pieces, was found on a vacant lot on the west side of South Norton Avenue, midway between Coliseum Street and West 39th Street (at 34.0164°N 118.333°W) in the neighborhood of Leimert Park. At the time, Leimert Park was largely undeveloped.[31] Local resident Betty Bersinger discovered the body at approximately 10 a.m. while walking with her three-year-old daughter,[32] initially thinking she had found a discarded store mannequin.[33] When she realized it was a corpse, she rushed to a nearby house and telephoned the police.[34]
>Short's severely mutilated body was completely severed at the waist and drained of blood, leaving her skin a pallid white.[35][36] Medical examiners determined that she had been dead for around ten hours prior to the discovery, leaving her time of death either sometime during the evening of January 14 or the early morning hours of January 15.[33] The body had apparently been washed by the killer.[37] Short's face had been slashed from the corners of her mouth to her ears, creating an effect known as the "Glasgow smile".[31] She had several cuts on her thigh and breasts, where entire portions of flesh had been sliced away.[38] The lower half of her body was positioned a foot away from the upper, and her intestines had been tucked neatly beneath her buttocks.[37] The corpse had been "posed", with her hands over her head, her elbows bent at right angles, and her legs spread apart.[33][35]
Pretty fucked up ngl
