Q. What did one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century (the Black Dahlia Murder) have to do with fine art?

A. According to Mark Nelson and Sarah Hudson Bayliss, the authors of the book Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder, the killer of Elizabeth Short may have been familiar with surrealist art and ideas and the murder “may have been a deranged attempt to imitate motifs in surrealist art”.

See above, Marcel Duchamp’s etant donnes and below, a photograph of the actual murder scene.