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Title: Dubious at best
Review: Despite a certain "noir" flavor, SEVERED flies in the face of documented evidence from the Dahlia case. Detective St. John, for example--cited by Gilmore as an apparent source for and believer in the guilt of Gilmore's suspect, still specifically and publicly denied the case had been solved up to the moment of his death! Gilmore's various statements to the media over a span of years also present a conflicting and highly contradictory picture of how much the alleged killer told him--or, indeed, whether they ever spoke at all. One wonders why it took so many years (over 20 by Gilmore's own estimate) to grind out a largely unsupported story with no documented sourcing whatsoever...and then published by a small press which lets it go out of print after two years. Far from the definitive answer. For a better take, check out DADDY WAS THE BLACK DAHLIA KILLER.
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