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On January 15, 1947 a woman walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of Norton St., in Liemert Park, Los Angeles caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a department store mannequin lying in the weeds; the top half separated from the lower half. As she approached the mannequin, she realized that it was actually the nude body of a woman.

Officers Frank Perkins and Will Fitzgerald were the first upon the crime scene. What they saw both shocked and appalled them. The body had been severely mutilated and in fact, cut in half. The dead woman had been posed with her arms above her head and her face and breasts had been slashed. Rope burns marked her ankles and her legs were spread eagle with the letters "BD carved into one thigh.

The officers surmised that due to the lack of blood both on the body and around the scene, the woman was killed elsewhere and her body was dumped in the lot sometime during the night or early morning.

To date, according to the LAPD, the case goes unsolved. Though Janice Knowlton has authored a book naming her father as the killer, police have not reported Ms. Knowlton’s statements or information as holding any water at all.