For me, the gruesome story of the Black Dahlia murder peaked when I watched a fascinating passage in a Vikram Jayanti doc called James Ellroy’s Feast of Death, a study of the life of the fabled crime writer. The passage showed L.A. Times copy editor Larry Harnisch explain why be believes the would-be actress was killed by a middle-aged surgeon named Walter Bayley. It’s a very convincing theory, and chilling to think about. Does anyone else find it suspicious that Pat Broeske‘s N.Y. Times story doesn’t hint or even ask whether Brian DePalma’s upcoming film about the murder tale, simply called The Black Dahlia, will deal with Bayley or go with some DePalma-level b.s. fictional scenario. If I know DePalma…
