Found on EBay -- Black Dahlia doll

Here's a disgusting little item on EBay: a more or less anatomically correct Black Dahlia doll--and yes I have cropped the photo. In theory, such objects violate EBay's policies, but the company rarely takes action on my complaints about Black Dahlia snow globes, photo books, sculpture, paintings, etc.

           

Comments

[Sam Flowers]

Our society is getting sicker and sicker. The things that our parents and theirs thought gross or sinfull are common place. This is pretty bad I must admit.

[Liam]

I guess eBay people read the Los Angeles Times. Black Dahlia is no more...at least the listing is gone.

[Darrell Kunitomi]

I worked in an archives, and I was going through a photog's collection. His wife had donated the collection after his passing. He covered wartime and post-war Los Angeles. His photos were marvelous, probably Speedgraphic stuff on 4x5 negs, every assignment a newspaper photog would cover in a major city -- people, places, games, storms, car crashes. There were several black and whites I came to call the Torso File.

These were tough to see. I'm sure many never made the paper. There was some guy (I think) who was run over by a train. Looked like rumpled clothes. There were other crime scene photos of victims. And then I saw my first viewing of the Black Dahlia. And I instantly knew what I was seeing.

She was in two parts, as we all know. The POV looked from a few feet away. Her pubic area was shown. The cut on her mouth was visible.

I knew what I was seeing.