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An Open Letter/Response to Oxygen-True Crime Buzz Writer/Editor Connor...
March 7, 2020 Los Angeles, California An Open Letter/Response to Oxygen-True Crime Buzz Writer/Editor Connor Mannion on his Article Regarding My “Outlandish & Crazy Zodiac and Black Dahlia...
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Film Noir Meets Dahlia Noir- Fiction and Fact Collide in 1940s Hollywood...
March 9, 2020 Los Angeles, California This morning I received the below email from a friend, Australian filmmaker, Frans Vandenburg. I met Frans several years ago when he and his partner-producer,...
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Recommended Reading: Reader’s Digest April 2020 Cover Story “UNSOLVED MURDERS...
March 15, 2020 Los Angeles, California My compliments to Reader’s Digest writers Bill Hangley Jr., Andy Simmons, and Marc Peyser for their cover story on...
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Dr. Alan Campbell NPR Host of “Watching America” Radio Interviews Steve Hodel...
March 18, 2020 Los Angeles, California NPR radio “Watching America” interview with Dr. Alan Campbell on my Black Dahlia investigation. (1 hour) Link to and listen to Interview HERE. “Dr. Campbell...
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Edward Ruscha- “…What celebs are doing in quarantine?” LA TIMES Sunday, March...
March 24, 2020 Los Angeles, California Last Sunday’s LA TIMES Calendar Section presented an article For obvious reasons, (see quote below) I particularly liked artist Edward Ruscha’s response to...
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The Gift of Being; A Seed of Light in all this Darkness
April 3, 2020 Los Angeles, California The last few months have been a tough time for all of us. I thought I’d try and bring a little light from the past to try and brighten the present and remind...
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Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat of Crime Junkie Podcast Take a Dive into the...
April 6, 2020 Los Angeles, California Just finished listening to this morning’s “Crime Junkie” podcast in which Ashley Flowers with her co-host Brit Prawat present their examination into the...
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Never Before Published Robert “Red” Manley DA and LAPD Interview/Transcript...
April 12, 2020 Los Angeles, California Easter Sunday DA Lt. Frank Jemison, senior detective appointed by the 1949 Grand Jury to reinvestigate the unsolved “Black Dahlia” murder, on February 1, 1950,...
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Remembering One of LAPD’s Finest- Sgt. Audrey Fletcher: A Woman Who Would Be...
April 18, 2020 Los Angeles, California “Had LAPD Sgt. Audrey Fletcher been born an Aubrey with a single X chromosome and one Y chromosome instead of the two XX chromosomes then one letter in her name...
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Synchronicity or Happenstance? A Quick Contest for All My “Black Dahlia...
April 21, 2020 Los Angeles, California I was going through some boxes from storage yesterday and came across a box of LAPD Retirement goodies. Hard to believe its been thirty-four years, but there...
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Film Daily Black Dahlia Article “One of the Saddest LA Stories Ever?”: A Few...
April 24, 2020 Los Angeles, California The following article was just posted on the Film Daily website. I responded to the author, Ms. Brynley Louise at the site, with a rather lengthy “comment”...
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LAPD Detective III’s Harry Bosch and Steve Hodel: Some Synchronicities, or...
May 1, 2020 Los Angeles, California Happy May Day! LAPD Detective III’s Harry Bosch and Steve Hodel: Some Synchronicities, or “How I Learned To Do the Boschanova” I had some fun making this one. This...
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Author Interview with CRIME BEAT’s Ron Chepesiuk on the Black Dahlia...
May 7, 2020 Los Angeles, California RON CHEPESIUK with STEVE HODEL “Black Dahlia 2020” Interview May 7, 2020 Ron is the radio host of the CRIME BEAT Radio Show. The Crime Beat show has been...
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Author Review of Historian David Kulczyk’s book on Little Known and Long...
May 16, 2020 Los Angeles, California Just finished reading author/historian David Kulczyk’s book, “California Flakes Fruits and Nuts: True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps and it’s...
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LADA Secret Hodel Black Dahlia Files Reveal 13th Witness Busting the Myth of...
June 1, 2020 Los Angeles, California “Connie (Starr) stated that she was invited to dinner at Mark Hansen’s by Ann Toth on Saturday, January 11, 1947. That the three of them (Hansen, Toth and Starr)...
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Update- 14th Witness Ann Toth Interview found in DA Secret Black Dahlia Files...
June 5, 2020 Los Angeles, California Just two days after interviewing witness Connie Starr regarding her sighting of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short, DA Lt. Frank Jemison and LAPD homicide...
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A Brief Summary of My LAPD Career and Promotion to Detective III at LAPD...
June 16, 2020 Los Angeles, California A number of readers have asked what were my years of service at LAPD and what was my rank when I retired. Here’s a short history of my career assignments during...
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Fred Sexton’s Maltese Falcon Sculpture Paid Homage in Tarantino’s “Once Upon...
June 25, 2020 Los Angeles A scene from “Once Upon A Time..in Hollywood” (2019) “Sharon Tate” (actor Margot Robbie) embraces the Maltese Falcon sculpture in Beverly Hills store as Tarantino pay’s homage...
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Mady Comfort, Duke Ellington’s original “Satin Doll”, Former Lover of Dr....
Los Angeles July 12, 2020 (Happy Birthday Brother Mike! Many of you knew him from his KPFK “Hour 25” radio show in the Seventies/Eighties. He would have been 81 years old today, but sadly he died at...
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Dorothy Harvey (Huston/Hodel) Short Story Published in Her 1921 LA Franklin...
July 16, 2020 Los Angeles, California Below is a short story that was written by my mother, Dorothy Harvey, (just a few years before marrying her first husband, John Huston) and published in her high...
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