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Sex Fiend Slaying Victim Identified by Fingerprint Records of F.BLI. _ ‘Times’ Learns Girl Wrote Mother —_ She Worked in San Diego Hospital . Fingerprints identified the attractive victim of a brutal , sex-fiend murder found Wednesday in a vacant lot near Nor- ton Ave. and 39th St. as Elizabeth Short, 22. last known address Santa Barbara, the Federal Bureau of Investigation . informed The Times yesterday, 7 The F.B.L. identification was Girl ested oP . Santa Barhara peice revdplel wa de at \ that Miss Short was arrepted ve F csssauepamrotiovanieni Papin erccenmT ee cmrenntinenines Made in Washington, being gleaned from the vast fingerprint: files of the government agency. 4 z Hollywood Visits Told At was made as scores of persons telephoned and visited the homi-:n From two police sources last ht came word that Elizabeth ‘cide detail in. City Hall, claiming ' Short had lived in Holiywood in the girl to be a relatise or friend.i Reported in San Diego Tn a telephone call to Boston’ ‘he Times learned last night hst Elizabeth Short wrote he mother, Mrs. Phoebe Short o Medford, Boston suburb, two peceks ago, telling her of Work. ing in a San Diego hospital. ‘ Frem San Diego it wus re- ported that the girl had been jiving in Pacific Beach, - with another girl, whom San Diego fleteciives were secking to ques- tion last night about Elizabeth Octoher, Two young men and two soung women visited the homicide aquad office to report they rec- ognized tne victim«as “Betty” Short, with whom they occa. sionally had visited a’ Holly-! avood night club about three months ago, The girl, whom they described as “very classy,” told the voung people that she: was engaged to an Army flyer: from ‘Texas, named “George.”: and that she “could marry him| ‘any ume and probably would.” “Eocording to thelr story to peo. ire, Yhere in the latter part of Per- tember. 1943. when she was &eon drinking with a number of sol- diers in the El Paseo Restaurant, Then a minor, she claimed one of the soldiers was her husband. Police disproved this, Further investigation at that fime disclosed that the girl was, living with ome Vera Green in _a West Cabrillo Beach court at 3°. W, Montecito St. . _ Polieewoman Mary Unkeler’ and other officers who visited: ‘the place reported that they: found two soldiers there, one of them in the hedroom. Miss Green’ stated that he was her husband, - put subsequently it was learned, that her solWler-hushand was. overseas, 4 The Santa Barhara authorities : placed. Miss Short on a train byy order of juvenile officials, to be: rvs i returned to her parents. Mr. and Shook ise eauaintances. | Mrs. Police also reported that Mar. Mrs. Cleo Shon Medfoe ; t her ‘old F. Costa, $1, and Donald Mass, Since then she has no daughter wrote of having Hd Costa. 4 d Mass, Since worked at Camp Cooke as a waitress. Yeuth Questioned One youth was questioned at the Ciry Jail as a possible sus. pect in the sadistie slaying,’ while in the Coroner's office au- topsy physicians announced that} wrk ae Jiss Short died of hemorrhage: . and shock, The young womait's mouth was slii with a knife three inches on each side while she was still alive, the doctors said. . * This plus a concussion of the brain induced by blows on the stated, Other mutilation of the “Leyes, 22, of 1i6l N. Orange Drive, last night identified the vietim as Elizabeth (Beth). Short who lived for two months at the same hotel at which they. resided and “went around” with, ‘two girl friends they named 4s. Margie Graham and Lynn Alar- “tin, The FBI. files disclosed the wietim’s identity after The “imes wired classification of her - fingerprints ta Washington. No ‘definite address was available. Banta Barbara, according to the | ‘bureau, was Miss Shorv’s last > known residence. She may have heal caused her death, they - lived elsewhere just prior to her hody, which was found cut in half and otherwise desecrated, occurred after death, in their ok me Na eoinepnemne Sone whee slaying. Me can eerengtsh Stare atten oY t been seen in the Mission Clry, i At the time she was photo graphed in the Santa Barbara police station, Miss Short had| sinall, brawn, molelike freckles | on het left arm and iwo faint, | small, brown moles on her right) cheek, This tallies in some de; gree with the results of an ex amination of the murder vietim. Moxemenis Traced Capt. Jack A. Donohoe, given, the identification by The Times, | Jaunched an immediate invest) gation to trace tne movements. of the girt hefore she fell prey to) the perverted sadism of a pers) son who apparently tortured het hefore she died. Drs, Frederick D, Newhar and £i victor Cefaluy-aspity autopsy’ VATED (a 77m 4/7 . 4 wae meres * meen eee narty R esenine a