Daniel S. Voorhees

Daniel S. Voorhees (1914 – 1953 ) was a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short on January 28, 1947. He asked members of the Los Angeles Police Department to meet him in downtown Los Angeles, at 4th Street and Hill Street. Voorhees was eliminated as a suspect in the Black Dahlia slaying because his handwriting did not match that in the killer's note, and after he refused to give any details and his testimony was proven false. from Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America where he had a wife and 9-year-old daughter who were contacted by the Phoenix Police Department at the request of the LAPD;

Voorhees had been working as a porter in a Los Angeles hotel when he called the police to confess to Short's murder citing a guilty conscience. Indeed, contemporary FBI and police memorandums note that Voorhees was just seeking fame and was mentally ill.

Disappearance and death Voorhees went missing sometime after January 28, 1947. On the day Short's body was discovered, January 15, Voorhees registered at a hotel at 1012 East Seventh Street in Los Angeles, at 10:45 A.M. He checked out of the hotel on the morning of January 16. The hotel owner stated that he had not seen Voorhees after this date and he was not tracked down any further by the police who had dismissed him as a suspect by this point. He was found again, but died of lung cancer on July 28, 1953.