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On the surface, the post-war years offered a white picket fence tableau.

Underlying the rosy tapestry of Norman Rockwell, church and country, was a cauldron of unease and despair, only seen on the silver screen in film noir classics like Nightmare Alley and Double Indemnity.

During the war years and immediately after, America was on the move and on edge. Young men and women were reinventing and uprooting themselves.

One of those dreamers on the move was a young woman from the Boston area named Elizabeth Short. Within a day or so of her defiled body being discovered on Jan. 15, 1947, she would forever be known as

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