voorhees spent the night in the los angeles county jail after he told lapd detective e.r. barrett that he met elizabeth short on hill street two weeks earlier. he claimed to have taken her for a ride on a wilshire boulevard bus. he did not say where the two of them went or whether they saw one another later. a police psychiatrist delayed a lie detector test on voorhees until he recovered from what was described as a "befuddled and bewildered" state. voorhees said that he met short in 1941 and dated her several times. he refused to say where he met short on these occasions.