Michael Connelly says same killer committed Black Dahlia, Zodiac murders

After nearly 80 years, hope for answers to the infamous 1947 Black Dahlia murder had faded into nothingness.

It was, as best-selling writer Michael Connelly said in 2024, “an unsolvable case.” One for which he imagined a different outcome in his then-new book, “The Waiting,” to “keep the lure of the case alive, so that in a way it’s solved, but unsolved.”

“I just thought, ‘Hey, I write about L.A. in novels now for 30 years,” Connelly said then about his thrillers, which included...