Episode 4: The Black Dahlia

Precision and Instinct is a true crime debate show. Every episode, Eli argues the hard evidence. Simone argues the pattern. Neither one wins — you decide.

January 15th, 1947. A mother walking with her child in a Los Angeles vacant lot spots what she thinks is a discarded mannequin. It's Elizabeth Short — twenty-two years old, cut cleanly in half at the waist, her body completely drained of blood. Seventy-nine years later, it's still the oldest unsolved murder in LA history, and the deeper it goes, the stranger it gets: a killer who mailed the victim's own belongings to a newsroom nine days later, a taunting string of letters, and a prime suspect — a physician caught on a police wiretap all but admitting it — who was never charged and died free.

Eli says almost eighty years of investig ...