The Wayback MachineBlackDahliaSolution.org and the Confession No One Read
The website is gone. It lives now only in the Internet Archive's amber —
eleven captures between March 2018 and December 2021.
It named the Black Dahlia's killer. It solved the cipher. It described path ciphers —
triangles, squares, linear paths — but never circles.
The circle was the thing it could not afford to mention.
One researcher believes the site itself was built by the killer.
A confession in plain sight. An unreliable narrator of its own crime.
And at the end of the chain of evidence it draws — Suzanne Degnan, Elizabeth Short,
and a six-year-old blonde girl in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996.
The Website
"The solution to the Dahlia murder has been 'there' for LAPD Homicide and the LA public for more than a half-century. This is a paradox with a simple explanation: the solution was shrouded in black symbolism, abstruse encryption, plus a plethora of reportage."— blackdahliasolution.org, Prologue page, archived 2020
There was a website. It existed quietly at a URL that almost no one knew, hosted on a server called my-sos.com under a subdirectory called BDS. It announced itself as the solution to the Black Dahlia murder — not a theory, not a speculation, but the solution, derived by a thirty-year US Government mathematician and decryptor who had spent the latter decades of his life applying his professional skills to the most famous unsolved homicide in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department. The site named the killer. It deciphered his messages. It traced his movements. It reconstructed the alibi. It located the hotel. It found the FBI file pages. It read the forehead brand. It decoded the suicide note. It did everything except put the man in handcuffs — and the man was already dead when the site was published, so handcuffs would have been ceremonial at best.
The site is now gone. Its domain — blackdahliasolution.org — resolves to nothing. The server it lived on has long since been repurposed. What remains is the Wayback Machine: eleven captures archived by the Internet Archive between March 5, 2018 and December 2, 2021, preserving the site's pages as they existed on those days, accessible to anyone who knows to look in the Archive's amber. Most people do not know to look. Most people who stumble onto the archived site read it as the work of an obsessive amateur — a retired government mathematician who spent his last years writing about a seventy-year-old murder on a website that nobody visited. This is a reasonable reading. It is not the only one.
John Cameron — the cold-case investigator whose twenty-five-year career produced the theory that Edward Wayne Edwards was responsible for the Zodiac murders, the JonBenét Ramsey case, the West Memphis Three frame-up, and dozens of other cases across five decades — identified the BlackDahliaSolution.org website as a possible creation of Edwards himself. Not Kohne. Not a retired government mathematician. Edwards. The theory: Kohne may have been a real person, may have genuinely worked on the case, may have genuinely believed in his solution. But the construction of the website — the specific choices about what to include, what to emphasize, what to leave out, and above all the specific cipher architecture described in exhausting detail across dozens of web pages — bears the unmistakable signature of the traveling codeset's practitioner. A man who was born in 1933, as Kohne was reportedly born in 1933. A man who spent time in San Diego. A man who died — Kohne on July 7, 2016; Edwards on April 7, 2011. The dates differ. The possibility remains.
Whether or not Kohne and Edwards were the same person — whether the site was authored directly by the killer, or authored by a genuine researcher whose work was subtly shaped and directed by access to information only the killer could have — the site has a quality that genuine outside-observer research does not usually have. It knows too much. It knows things that were not in any newspaper article, any police report, any public record. It knows the specific cipher architecture of the "BDA trilogy" — the three paste-up messages the Black Dahlia Avenger sent to the Los Angeles Examiner and LAPD — with the intimacy of someone who designed those ciphers rather than discovered them.
The Author
"John F. Kohne Jr. spent 30 years working for the US Government as a mathematician where he garnered considerable experience and expertise in decryption. Born in 1933 in Hollywood, he lived his entire life in San Diego. On July 7, 2016, Mr. Kohne passed away."— blackdahliasolution.org About page, archived 2018
The About page of BlackDahliaSolution.org presents John F. Kohne Jr. as a credentialed, disinterested expert — a government mathematician who brought professional decryption skills to a cold case that had baffled law enforcement for sixty years. Born in Hollywood in 1933. Lived in San Diego. Died July 7, 2016. No other details are provided. No employer is named. No specific government agency is identified. No colleagues are mentioned. The professional credential — thirty years as a government decryptor — cannot be verified from the site's content alone, and no external source has corroborated it. The site provides a name, a birth year, a city, and a professional claim. That is all. "JFK.Jr"
The birth year is significant: 1933 is also the birth year of Edward Wayne Edwards, born in Coshocton, Ohio, on June 14, 1933. Edwards died April 7, 2011 — five years before Kohne's reported 2016 death. The coincidence of birth years is not, by itself, meaningful; many people were born in 1933. What makes the coincidence interesting is the accumulation of other details. A man born in 1933 who spent his life interested in the Black Dahlia case — the murder occurred when he was thirteen years old, living in the environment that the site's research documents with such intimate precision. A man with professional expertise in decryption — the kind of expertise that would enable the construction of the specific cipher systems the "BDA trilogy" messages contain. A man who lived in San Diego — the city that Edwards is documented as having connections to through his extended criminal network and family movements.
And then there is the quality of knowledge. The site describes the hotel on Washington Boulevard — not by name but by detail — with the knowledge of someone who checked into it. It reconstructs the route from the hotel to the display lot — "Washington west to Crenshaw, Crenshaw south to Coliseum, Coliseum east to Norton, lights off, roll south a half-block" — with the knowledge of someone who drove it. It describes the suitcases, the attic access, the bloody sheets bundled into the closet, the panic when the manager knocked — with the knowledge of someone who was there. Outside observers do not write about crime scenes this way. Witnesses write about crime scenes this way. Participants write about crime scenes this way.
The unreliable narrator is a literary device: a narrator whose account of events cannot be fully trusted, whose perspective is distorted by self-interest, psychological instability, or participation in the events they are describing. The site's narrator — whoever constructed these web pages — is reliably unreliable in exactly one direction: toward the protection of the killer's identity through a specific proxy name. "Ed Burns" is not Edwards. But the description of "Ed Burns" is the description of Edwards, down to the birth year, the government connections, the mobility, the forensic awareness, and the specific cipher architecture of the messages.
The BDA Letters
"Ed Burns used a plain white envelope for his first message and a penny postcard for his second message. Betty's purse and shoes showed up at an LA dump: more booty to shed before LAPD showed up. The purse and shoes had been doused in a kerosene-like substance — removing the finger oils that enable fingerprinting."— blackdahliasolution.org, archived 2020
The Black Dahlia Avenger — the designation given to the person who sent a series of communications to the Los Angeles Examiner and LAPD after the murder of Elizabeth Short — sent three documents. The first was a plain white envelope containing a ransom-note-style paste-up message: individual letters and words cut from newspapers and magazines, assembled into a message and photographed before mailing. This technique — the paste-up letter, assembled from printed sources to avoid handwriting identification — is the same technique later associated with the Zodiac Killer's communications to the San Francisco Chronicle beginning in 1969. It requires patience, planning, and a clear understanding of how physical evidence is used in criminal investigations. A casual killer does not make paste-up letters. A practitioner of document-based misdirection does.
The second communication — a penny postcard — arrived at the Examiner shortly after the first. The site describes its cipher content in precise detail, noting specific letterforms that interact with each other to encode "Ed Burns" in the text. The third communication arrived later, described on the site as a "confessional" — a longer document with a specific acrostic embedded in the middle, spelling the killer's name vertically down the center of the text. The site spends considerable effort demonstrating this acrostic, reproducing the text of what it calls the "Sorry Mary" suicide note and showing, with enhanced typography, how the name "Ed Burns" runs vertically through the center of the note's text when the correct reading direction is applied.
Elizabeth Short's handbag and shoes were also sent in — mailed to the LA Examiner in a separate package. The site notes, and this is the detail that most distinguishes a practitioner from an amateur: the bag and shoes had been doused in a kerosene-like substance that would destroy the skin oils required to leave identifiable fingerprints. In 1947, fingerprint identification was the primary forensic identification technique available to law enforcement. The person who doused Elizabeth Short's belongings in kerosene before mailing them to the newspaper understood, decades before forensic awareness entered general public consciousness, that the physical transfer of fingerprint oils was the evidence chain he needed to break. This is not the behavior of a man acting impulsively. This is the behavior of a man who had thought carefully about what evidence he was creating and had systematically eliminated the most dangerous category of it before the documents left his hands.
The forensic awareness timeline (one researcher's framework): 1947 — kerosene on evidence, no fingerprints, alibi via commuter pilot, body transported in suitcases. 1968–74 — Zodiac letters bear no usable fingerprints, crosshair sigil distributed as public key while private key retained, cipher designed with homophonic substitution. 1984/86 — Miller letters sent with no traceable physical evidence. 1996 — Ramsey note handwritten on pad found in the house, pen from the house, no external evidence trail. The forensic awareness is consistent across five decades. The technology improves; the practitioner adapts.
Path Ciphers and the Missing Circle
"The site is exhausting in how it goes on to explain how path ciphers work. It describes triangles. It describes squares. Linear paths. Beelines. Cartesian coordinates. Euclidean space. But it never mentions the circle. It never mentions the spiral. This is not an oversight. It is admission by omission."— one researcher's analysis
The site's cipher analysis sections — running across multiple pages, covering the three BDA messages in exhaustive detail — constitute a mini-textbook in path cipher methodology. The author describes how a cipher can be read not linearly (left to right, one character at a time) but spatially — by following a path through the text that traces a geometric shape. He demonstrates triangular paths: enter at one character, move diagonally to a second, move diagonally back to a third, repeat. He demonstrates rectangular paths: enter at a corner, move horizontally to the opposite corner, move vertically, move horizontally back, extract one character per side. He demonstrates beeline paths: straight-line connections between non-adjacent characters. He invokes Cartesian coordinates. He invokes Euclidean space. He invokes the dictionary definition of "beeline": a direct route traveled quickly, proceeding in a straight line by the shortest route, undeviating.
What he does not invoke, across all of this: the circle. The spiral. The radial path. The arc. These are not obscure cipher techniques — they are standard entries in the history of cryptography alongside the linear and rectilinear paths the site describes so exhaustively. A text that teaches path cipher methodology without mentioning circular or spiral paths is like a cookbook that teaches every form of cooking except one. The omission is too systematic to be accidental. Every shape is here. Almost every shape except the one that is the Zodiac's primary signature.
The Zodiac crosshair is a circle. The radial path cipher — established in the research of one investigator — extracts ZODIAC by following a clockwise arc around the page. The GOD (I) radial path in the Peterson letter traces a circular arc from T-token through O, D, I, A, to C. The ZODIAC acrostic in the Ramsey note uses another vertical direction to connect its anchor letters. Almost every cipher in the traveling codeset that this research series has documented uses a circular or arc-based/spiral path as its primary extraction mechanism. The BDA site describes every other kind of path cipher with loving exhaustive detail. It mentions circles nowhere.
A site that teaches path ciphers without teaching the circular path is a site that teaches everything except its author's signature technique. The omission is not the absence of a topic. It is admission — the cipher technique visible precisely through its absence, the way a criminal's silhouette is visible in the negative space around the things he chose not to touch.
What the Site Left Out
The BDA site documents triangles, squares, and beelines — then stops. Watch each shape animate, each path traced, each letter extracted. Then watch the circle appear — the shape the site never describes — and reveal why its omission was deliberate. Hover each shape for the correspondence to the traveling codeset.
Sorry, Mary
"Kinda like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, huh, Ed... I've highlighted and exaggerated the darkness of 'Ed Burns,' and the look of Ed's perennial 'T' pointers, two in this confessional-suicide cryptogram of his... what you see is what LAPD got. And that's Ed Burns you're looking at."— blackdahliasolution.org, 'The Fate' page, archived 2020
On March 14, 1947 — two months to the day after the Black Dahlia's body was found in the vacant lot on Norton Avenue — a note was found on a beach in Venice, California. A man had left his clothes and a piece of paper and walked into the ocean. He was never found. No body surfaced. The note was published in the Los Angeles Times and the other dailies, with the curious exception of a photograph — no newspaper printed an image of the actual note, only its text. The site speculates, with the confidence of someone who knows, that LAPD had intervened to prevent photography of the note, because the note, properly analyzed, would have identified the killer.
The text of the note read: "To whom it may concern: I have waited for the police to capture me for the Black Dahlia killing, but have not. I am too much of a coward to turn myself in, so this is the best way out for me. I couldn't help myself for that, or this. Sorry, Mary."
The site decodes the note as an acrostic. Reading vertically down the center of the note's text — using what it calls "T pointers" (perpendicular T-characters that mark the reading direction) to calibrate the extraction path — the name "Ed Burns" appears in full, running vertically through the exact width-center of the row group in which it appears. The site demonstrates this with enhanced typography, noting that only the E and the B are capitalized, as they should be if the name is spelled correctly. It notes that "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN" appears as a preface purely to provide a capital E at the sentence's beginning — the phrase is otherwise unnecessary to the note's content, present only to provide the cipher's first character.
The site's analysis of this acrostic is meticulous — perhaps too meticulous. An outside researcher who discovered this pattern through painstaking cryptanalytic work would describe their methodology: how many hours they spent, what blind alleys they pursued, what made them think to try the vertical center reading direction. The site describes none of this. It describes the result as though the process of finding it was not the interesting part — as though the author already knew the name was there and was simply showing the reader where to look. This is the quality of knowledge that runs through the entire site. The author does not discover. The author reveals.
Suzanne Degnan → Elizabeth Short
"Almost exactly a year before the Black Dahlia murder, a girl was slain and dismembered in an affluent section of Chicago. The victim's name was Suzanne Degnan... Betty was obsessed with the Degnan murder... And in July '46 a dysphoric Degnan/Heirens/Murman show drifted into Long Beach in the eye of an obsession."— blackdahliasolution.org, Chapter 1, archived 2020
The most remarkable contribution BlackDahliaSolution.org makes to the understanding of the Black Dahlia case is also the contribution that has been most completely ignored by the case's research community: the establishment of a direct causal connection between the murder of Suzanne Degnan in Chicago on January 7, 1946, and the murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles on January 14–15, 1947. The site makes this connection explicitly and argues it in detail. No other serious Black Dahlia researcher — not Steve Hodel, not John Gilmore, not any of the writers who have spent decades working the case — has made this argument. The connection exists only in this website, preserved in the Wayback Machine's amber, quietly available to anyone who cares to read it.
Suzanne Degnan was six years old, blonde, the daughter of James Degnan — a federal government official with the Office of Price Administration. She was kidnapped from her room on January 7, 1946, cut into pieces, and distributed across several sewers in the affluent Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. A ransom note was found in her room implying she was alive and could be returned for a price. She was already dead when the note was left. A second-year University of Chicago student named William Heirens was eventually convicted of the murder.
Elizabeth Short — the Black Dahlia — was obsessed with the Degnan murder. The site documents this obsession in detail: Short told people in Chicago bars that she was a reporter from Boston covering the Heirens trial. She gave recitative performances of the murder's details to bar crowds. She carried the case with her from Chicago to Los Angeles in late 1946, continuing to discuss it with everyone who would listen. The site argues that this obsession was not merely biographical curiosity but the specific link that connected her to her own killer: the man she met in Los Angeles had been present at the Degnan murder, had an intimate knowledge of its details that no newspaper account could provide, and recognized in Short's obsession both a danger and an opportunity.
The Mimicry Theory — directly from the BDA site: "The Dahlia Murder/Degnan Murder interweave tells us the Ed story: Ed was as obsessed with the Dahlia as she was with the Suzanne Degnan murder. So it was a very old story: obsession plus rejection plus perceived betrayal equals murder most foul." The Degnan murder was "transmuted" into the Dahlia murder — the same victim type (young woman, the object of obsession), the same methodology (dismemberment, display), the same communication structure (paste-up notes sent to authorities), the same forensic awareness (kerosene, no fingerprints, alibi manufactured in advance). The Dahlia murder was not original. It was a ritual replication.
Suzanne Degnan → JonBenét Ramsey
"Is it possible that the website was set up to actually confess to the JonBenét Ramsey murder by way of connecting it to the reason for the Black Dahlia murder? A reliving ritual — as told by some psychologists as to how some serial killers are ritualistic and want to relive moments of control."— one researcher's framing
The BDA site argues exhaustively that the Black Dahlia murder was a ritual replication of the Suzanne Degnan murder — that the specific details of the Degnan case (the dismemberment, the display, the ransom note implying survival when death had already occurred) were deliberately reproduced in the murder of Elizabeth Short. One researcher extends this chain one step further: the same ritual was replicated again, fifty years later, in Boulder, Colorado, on December 25, 1996.
The parallels between Suzanne Degnan (1946) and JonBenét Ramsey (1996) are structural, not superficial. Both were six years old. Both were blonde. Both had fathers who were prominent businessmen with specific government or institutional connections — James Degnan at the Office of Price Administration; John Ramsey, CEO of Access Graphics, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin with a government contract portfolio. Both were killed in their homes on nights significant to the practitioner's calendar — Degnan on January 7, close to Epiphany; Ramsey on December 25, the winter solstice festival. Both murders were accompanied by written documents that performed the same misdirection: a note implying the victim was alive and could be recovered, written by someone who already knew the victim was dead. Both murder scenes contained evidence of elaborate preparation and post-mortem staging. Both remained officially unsolved — or, in the Degnan case, controversially resolved through a conviction that has never entirely satisfied investigators.
If the BDA site is a confession — if the exhaustive, intimate, pre-knowledge quality of its Black Dahlia analysis reflects the practitioner's direct participation in the crime it describes — then the site's emphasis on the Degnan–Dahlia mimicry chain takes on a different quality. It is not analysis. It is a reliving. The practitioner who built the site is not explaining why someone else replicated the Degnan murder in the Dahlia murder. He is explaining why he replicated the Degnan murder in the Dahlia murder. And by extension, he is explaining — to the reader sophisticated enough to follow the chain — why fifty years later he replicated it again. In a house in Boulder. On Christmas night. With a six-year-old blonde girl. And a ransom note that implied she was alive.
- Age 6
- Blonde hair
- Father: James Degnan — Office of Price Administration (federal business magnate)
- Ransom note left implying victim was alive — she was already dead
- Taken from her room at night
- Dismembered · remains distributed
- Convicted: William Heirens (controversial)
- Date: Epiphany adjacent · pagan calendar significance
- Age 6
- Blonde hair
- Father: John Ramsey — CEO Access Graphics / Lockheed Martin (business magnate)
- Ransom note left implying victim was alive — she was already dead in the basement
- Taken from her room at night
- Ligature strangulation · staged display
- Officially unsolved · DNA profile unmatched
- Date: December 25 · winter solstice / Yule · pagan calendar significance
The reliving ritual — documented in forensic psychology literature as a behavioral pattern of organized serial killers who compulsively recreate the conditions of earlier crimes that produced a specific psychological reward — is not a hypothesis unique to this research framework. It is a recognized clinical category. The specific form it takes here — the ritualistic recreation of victim profile (blonde, age 6, magnate father), crime structure (in-home abduction, ransom note misdirection, display), and documentary communication (paste-up note, ransom note left at scene) across a fifty-year span — is consistent with a practitioner who organized his criminal activity around the repetition of foundational templates rather than the improvised commission of opportunistic crimes. The BDA site, in its detailed explication of the Degnan–Dahlia mimicry chain, is the practitioner's own documentation of his template. The reader who understands the reliving ritual pattern reads the site's mimicry analysis as an instruction manual for the chain that runs from Chicago in 1946 through Los Angeles in 1947 to Boulder in 1996.
The Ritual Chain
Three victims. Fifty years. One replicating template. Watch the structural correspondences materialize — victim profile, crime structure, documentary misdirection, pagan calendar date. Hover each node for the full parallel. The BDA site documented the first link. One researcher proposes the chain extends to 1996.
Hover nodes for structural correspondences · Theoretical analytical framework · Openly available sources
The Dexter Parallel
"There is a recent season of Dexter where a true crime podcaster becomes the victim herself of the story she was chasing. Truth stranger than fiction — if that narrative was oblivious to this story and was just replicated as reality, it would be something that would happen."— one researcher's observation
The television series Dexter: New Blood, broadcast in 2021, features a storyline in which a true crime podcaster — a young woman who has been investigating a series of murders — becomes, in the course of her investigation, a target of the killer she has been chasing. The pattern is familiar from the true crime genre: the investigator who gets too close, who learns too much, whose proximity to the truth makes them a liability rather than merely an observer. Fiction has used this pattern for decades. What makes the Dexter version notable in this context is its temporal proximity to the BlackDahliaSolution.org research: the show broadcast its New Blood episodes in 2021, the year of the Wayback Machine's final capture of the BDA site.
Whether the show's writers were aware of the specific real-world parallel — the researcher who built a website about a killer who may have been the same person as the researcher — is unknown and unknowable. What is observable is the structural resonance: a person who pursues the truth of a crime, who builds a public-facing archive of their analysis, who names names and deciphers messages, who creates a record of their proximity to the truth — and who, in the process, may be closer to the killer than they know. Kohne, if he was genuinely a separate person from Edwards, fits this pattern precisely. He published a website identifying Ed Burns as the Black Dahlia's killer. He named the man in whose orbit he had apparently been moving. He died in 2016. The website went dark not long after.
The parallel is not offered as evidence of anything. It is offered as a structural observation about the specific kind of danger that attaches to being the person who correctly identifies a practitioner of this caliber. The BDA site's author — whoever he was — got closer to the truth of the Black Dahlia case than any other public researcher. The site is gone now. The author is gone. The Internet Archive holds what remains: eleven captures, available to anyone who knows to look in the amber, telling a story that the person who built the site either discovered through extraordinary cryptanalytic skill — or already knew.
The Verdict
"Ed Burns would again confess to the murder — cryptically — then he'd de facto close the case. To the 20th century public, he would always be 'the little man who wasn't there.' That was Ed's fate."— blackdahliasolution.org, 'The Fate' page, archived 2020
What do we have, finally, when we hold the BlackDahliaSolution.org website up to the light that the full research framework provides? We have a site that identifies the Black Dahlia's killer through cryptanalytic analysis of the paste-up messages — correctly, if the framework is right. We have an author who describes the crime with the intimacy of a participant rather than an analyst. We have a cipher methodology section that exhaustively documents every path cipher type except the one that constitutes the Zodiac's primary signature — a systematic omission that functions as admission. We have an acrostic analysis that decodes "Ed Burns" from the center of the suicide note — an acrostic whose presence the site announces with the casual confidence of someone who put it there. We have the first published connection between the Degnan murder and the Black Dahlia murder — a connection that extends, in one researcher's framework, to Boulder in 1996. And we have the Wayback Machine: eleven captures in amber, preserving a confession that dressed itself as scholarship.
The site names "Ed Burns" as the killer. One researcher proposes that "Ed Burns" — a name whose initials, EB, are the same initials branded cryptographically on Elizabeth Short's forehead on January 15, 1947 — is the proxy through which the site's real author identified himself. If the site was built by Edward Wayne Edwards — born 1933, convicted serial killer, the only suspect in the Zodiac case who was also a convicted serial killer of couples on lovers' lanes — then the BDA site is the most elaborate confession in the history of American true crime: a thirty-page website, published under a proxy identity, archived in the Wayback Machine, available to the connoisseur of the traveling codeset who knows to read the path ciphers the site describes while following the circular arc the site deliberately omits.
The little man who wasn't there was always there. In the FBI file: on twenty-five pages. In the BDA messages: in three paste-up letters, one acrostic, one forehead brand, one suicide note. On the website: in the shape-cipher methodology that describes every shape except the one that signs his name. In the Wayback Machine: in eleven captures between 2018 and 2021, available to anyone who knows to look. The site says Elizabeth Short's killer "confessed cryptically" and "de facto closed the case." The site is the confession. The Internet Archive is the evidence locker. The case was never closed. It was just archived.
The solution to the Black Dahlia murder has been there for more than a half-century. The BDA site said so on its prologue page. It was right. The solution was there. It was shrouded in abstruse encryption and a plethora of reportage. But it was also shrouded in the one thing the prologue didn't mention: the author. The solution was there, and so was the author, and the author was the solution, and he archived the whole thing in the Wayback Machine for the reader who would eventually arrive.
THE WAYBACK MACHINE is a narrative analytical work. The BlackDahliaSolution.org website is publicly archived at the Internet Archive (web.archive.org). Its content — the "Ed Burns" identification, the BDA message acrostics, the Degnan–Dahlia mimicry theory, the cipher analysis sections — is drawn directly from that archived site. John Cameron's identification of the website as a possible Edwards creation is Cameron's documented research claim. The Degnan–Dahlia–Ramsey ritual chain hypothesis is one researcher's analytical framework. The Suzanne Degnan case (1946), Black Dahlia case (1947), and JonBenét Ramsey case (1996) are all matters of public record. Nothing in this document asserts criminal guilt beyond what courts have established. The Black Dahlia case and the JonBenét Ramsey case remain officially unsolved. Edwards was convicted of murder and died in prison in 2011.