"Spent 5 years crisscrossing the country": Deconstructing Dahlia filmmakers break silence on their Black Dahlia murder investigation journey 

Deconstructing Dahlia filmmakers Jeff Thomas and Kimberley Lupini reportedly opened up about their journey while investigating the murder of Black Dahlia. While speaking to Ann Emerson in Criminally Obsessed, Kimberley Lupini shared,

"We spent 5 years crisscrossing the country, obtaining new evidence and new witnesses. We slowly developed the team over that five years."

Lupini further revealed that their first investigation was based on direct evidence since 1950 and shared that team carried out a unique step to compare unchecked files.

Through this process, they managed to connect missing details across the documents and reconstructed a final result with the recovered files. She added that the team has now uncovered the crime scene, which they believe to be the place where she was murdered.

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Black Dahlia: Deconstructing Dahlia filmmakers broke silence on their Black Dahlia murder investigation journey

In Criminally Obsessed, Deconstructing Dahlia filmmakers Jeff Thomas VII and Kimberley Lupini reportedly shared their Black Dahlia murder investigation journey to Ann Emerson. Producer Kim Lupini said that the supportive evidence matching with the collected files helped them to carry out the investigation process. Lupini revealed,

"We do have mountains of evidence that lines up with the files and new witnesses that would qualify for a conviction of this suspect."

Emerson said that the body of the 22-year-old was discovered in state, which shocked even the most seasoned investigators, yet no one was ever charged. Now, the team believed that a hidden room might be present inside a motel that could provide the missing clue.

Criminalist Leslie Thompson explained that she and her team noticed blood stains on the wall. The team said that they would soon reveal the identity of Elizabeth Short's killer, but first they would need an autopsy report from the Los Angeles Police Department.

Lupini opened up that they would announce the killer soon and said that the suspect couldn't be named yet. She explained that the team had strong evidence, including files and new witnesses, which could support a conviction. She further stressed that they would not repeat old theories and guess about who killed Short but instead want to prove it with facts.

Lupini added that the motive had been mapped out in detail, but they needed an autopsy report to confirm those findings. According to her, this report was the only document that could fully verify the motive.

Black Dahlia: Jeff Thomas explained the autopsy report

In Criminally Obsessed, Jeff Thomas explained that the autopsy report had never been made available, even though it was a public document. The team believed that the report would confirm the real reason behind the killing of Elizabeth Short. Thomas revealed,

"If you look at everything that had been done to Elizabeth Short, and the bisection and all the trauma and all the lacerations and all the cutting, everything that was done to her entire body, these notes do talk about one particular organ, which is an organ of interest for us."

Thomas explained that the grand juries carried out investigations in 1949 and 1950, and the medical examiner never testified before them. He pointed to the jury and said that they never saw the autopsy report. Thomas further said that references to some of the report’s details could be found in books, online sources, and other files, but they all came from those handwritten notes, not from the actual document.

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