BLACK DAHLIA REDUX: Author thinks he solved most infamous cold case in U.S.

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 and

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 the Black Dahlia.

She would tragically become America’s most infamous unsolved murder.

Now, author Eli Frankel believes he has solved a mystery that has vexed generations of detectives: Who killed the Black