Eli Frankel

If you want to hear more things in depth, I mean, I appreciated the technique in that one, but not really the substance.

Now we're going to get to some things that are a little bit more in depth and intense, and we can talk about Sisters in Death by Eli Frankel.

And this is a book that came out last year at the time of this recording.

And Sisters in Death is one that received a lot of press, it received a lot of publicity, and it's also one that was just really, really getting into a lot of the details.

and we have this here remaining consistent across all versions of the story is what betty bersinger encountered at ten fifty a m on january fifteenth of nineteen forty seven the body of twenty-two-year-old elizabeth schwartz was cut neatly in half the two parts facing up and separated by a horrific gap of inches looms across the body detailed a map of torture large pieces of skin and flesh were carved out and missing various knife and razor cuts had been made across the body some in graphic criss-cross fashion and others in a flurry of tiny slices yet others prominent and deep dark circular depressions around her neck wrists and legs evidenced by long periods of restraint either with leather or wire before her death were present even more shocking was what had been done to her face three-inch gashes had been ripped from both corners of her mouth nearly to the ears forming a contorted twisted smile the body had been drained of blood and scrubbed clean with a cocoanut fibre brush appearing stark white in the sun in contrast to the victim's jet-black hair now that's one big detail there and as you see very horrific things that were done to elizabeth short and i mean i think that this though is one of the crimes when you cannot spare the details And you cannot get away from some of these horrific things that happened.

But, as I told you, this is a book that would receive a lot of criticism, and other people approach it just simply with curiosity.

Because what Eli Frankel was doing was, he was looking at how and why...

No one was able to see the body.