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TIL that after Elizabeth Short, AKA "The Black Dahlia" was found murdered and mutilated in 1947 in Los Angeles, the Examiner newspaper contacted Short's mother and told her Elizabeth had won a beauty contest in order to pry as much personal information from her as possible.

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