Jean Spangler - The True Crime Database Jean Spangler To this day, the 1947 murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. the Black Dahlia, remains perhaps the most haunting unsolved mystery in Hollywood history. But just two years later, another aspiring young actress with dark hair and piercing eyes also disappeared in Los Angeles — and many believe she may have fallen victim to the same depraved killer. On the evening of October 7, 1949, Jean Spangler left her five-year-old daughter at home with a sitter and headed out to work. When she failed to come home by the following evening, her family called the police, who quickly found Spangler's purse with a torn strap on the ground in Griffith Park. Spangler's purse was found right near the home of wealthy doctor George Hodel — long considered a prime suspect in the Black Dahlia murder. Even Hodel's own son has recently suggested that his dad killed both the Black Dahlia and Jean Spangler. However, Hodel was never ch...
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