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Ellroy also explores how being directly affected by a crime shaped his life often for the worse and led him to write crime novels.
She was found by children in and their coaches on june 22, 1958.
The road lay beside the playing field at.
Officers from the el monte city police department handed over the investigation to the homicide bureau.
They chased down leads gathered from the scene and from anonymous tips sent in by area citizens.
Newspaper accounts about the murder were scarce, as well as the television news accounts.
There were three murders that had occurred in el monte in 1958 by that time, and all had been resolved very quickly.
After all the leads went dry, the case was eventually abandoned and never solved.
Both had been dumped by the roadside to be found by passerby.
In the black dahlia , ellroy created a fictional story around the murder of elizabeth short.
Bill stoner is the retired l.
Investigator who assisted ellroy in his search for the killer.
After fifteen months of investigation, the crime remained unsolved, and any potential suspects are believed to be dead.
London: century books, october 1996.
New york: alfred a.
London: arrow, june 1997.
First british trade paperback.
New york: vintage, august 1997.
First american trade paperback.