Unsolved Crimes

The first unsolved crime I had found was the 1947 slaying of 22-year-old aspiring star Elizabeth Short, later name the Black Dahlia for her dark hair and wardrobe in which she was found in. They say her murder is like that out of  a film. The crime had happened in an empty Los Angeles lot, Short's body was found mutilated, sliced in two and drained of blood, all with surgical precision. The LAPD had dismissed many suspects, including a handful who confessed, and never cracked the case. I find this case interesting just because the murder of an up and coming star like her was never solved. Anymore, if something like this would happen, it would not be off of the news and out of newspaper till the criminal was found and a trial was completed. 

The second unsolved crime I found was, the disappearance of D.B. Cooper and $200,000 in cash after hijacking and jumping out of an airplane. This all had happened on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, Cooper was a passenger on a flight from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. He had  threatened to blow up the plane unless he received $200,000 cash. He then collected his ransom money at Seattle's airport, and demanded the pilot fly back toward Oregon. Just north of Portland, Cooper opened the rear door and parachuted into the dark from the plane with 21 pounds of $20 bills strapped to him. Him or the money was every found, except for $5,880, but that was many years later, was ever seen again. This case is introducing to me because first, it is a airplane hijacking and one that I have never heard of. To me, something like this is a little bizarre, his body was never found and some of the money was only discovered years later on the Columbia river. To know that this is the only FBI case of airplane hijacking that remains unsolved is also a brain twister. I can just think of some many different things that could of been done to stop him from getting onto the plane but never were used.