Tamar Nais Hodel Dies at 80 in Honolulu, Hawaii
October 18, 2015 Los Angeles, California REST IN PEACE Two weeks ago today, my half-sister, Tamar Nais Hodel, passed away in her sleep. She was eighty years old. She bore, five children....
View ArticleMaureen O’Hara Heroine of 1943 “White Rose Murders” CBS Radio Broadcast Dies...
Dr. George Hill Hodel “LA Lone Woman Murders” serial killer reenacted Cornell Woolrich’s “White Rose Murders” script “ by committing a real life “White Gardenia Murder” just twenty days after Miss...
View ArticleSteve Hodel Author Talk, PowerPoint and Book Signing on Just Published “Most...
Hope to see you at my author talk next week on Thursday, November 5th, 2015 at 7:00PM At the South Pasadena Library. Will do a PowerPoint talk and signing on my just published book, Most Evil II. The...
View ArticlePasadena Weekly Magazine on George Hodel Zodiac Cipher Solution and South...
November 6, 2015 Los Angeles, California Pasadena Weekly Reporter Carl Kozlowski’s article “Surprising Signs” introduced area residents to last night’s 7:00 PM PowerPoint presentation of MOST EVIL...
View ArticleAuthor Talk at BOOK SOUP – Wed, November 18, 2015 7:00 PM MOST EVIL II...
Los Angeles, California I will be presenting a PowerPoint discussion and Q&A on my just-published sequel, MOST EVIL II at the West Hollywood Sunset Strip BOOK SOUP BOOKSTORE, 8816 Sunset Blvd., on...
View ArticleAuthor Michael Connelly’s Hieronymos “Harry” Bosch-An Identity Crisis?
Los Angeles, California November 23, 2015 (Originally posted in 2010 and updated November 2015) I rarely read mystery novels, with one major exception- those written by bestselling author, Michael...
View ArticleBlack Dahlia Avenger/Zodiac: Unexpected Help from Home and Abroad- Announcing...
December 4, 2015 Los Angeles Each of the three above named individuals contributed a major piece of evidence which helped solve the serial crimes now collectively known as the Black Dahlia...
View ArticleMOST EVIL II (Black Dahlia/LA Lone Woman Murders, Zodiac) Author Talk &...
Santa Monica Library Talk (Free Admission) Thursday, January 21, 2015, 7:00 pm 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=19224 The post MOST EVIL II...
View ArticleScreenwriter/Noir Novelist David Goodis Film “The Unfaithful” References Real...
Los Angeles January 14, 2016 Tomorrow marks the 69th anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short. Rest in Peace, Elizabeth. Below photo sent to me this afternoon (1.15.16) by a Los...
View ArticleDenver Colorado Author/Journalist Zack Kopp Reviews “Most Evil II”
February 6, 2016 Los Angeles, California Denver, Colorado-based author/journalist Zack Kopp has written a follow-up review to my recently published, Most Evil II: Presenting the Follow-Up Investigation...
View ArticleFebruary 2016 Vanity Fair Article Explores — John Huston, Fred Sexton and The...
February 20, 2016 Los Angeles, California A BIRDIE AND A BOGIE This month’s Vanity Fair magazine’s lead article, The Mystery of the Maltese Falcon: One of the Most Valuable Movie...
View ArticleMaltese Falcon- Revisiting the 1941 Crime Scene – The Black Bird, Huston,...
February 23, 2016 Los Angeles, California My friend, J.R. Neumiller, when hearing in my earlier blog that I was off to catch the 75th-anniversary screening of The Maltese Falcon left a comment on my...
View Article“Buster” World Famous Police Cadaver Dog Dies from Sudden Heart Attack –...
February 27, 2916 Los Angeles, California Buster and Sgt. Paul Dostie on a MIA search in Normandy, France I received some extremely sad news this morning from my good friend, Paul Dostie, retired...
View ArticleThe Case of the Stolen 1400-Year-Old Chinese Sacrificial Tablet – Did George...
Chinese Sacrificial Tablet HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C. – A.D. 220 10″x6″x1″ Photo from THE MET museum believed similar in appearance to stone tablet taken in 1947 burglary from Sowden/Hodel residence...
View ArticleZodiac Uses His Real Name To Sign 1970 Cipher Message- Animation Reveals...
March 26, 2016 Los Angeles, California Original 1970 Zodiac Halloween “You Ache To Know My Name” Card Mailed to San Francisco Chronicle This video presents the decryption and solving of the mysterious...
View ArticleIn a Mocking Taunt to Humanity Zodiac Killer Names and Registers a Star After...
Los Angeles April 1, 2016 “I have a reserved place in constellation Aquila” Included in George Hill Hodel intended 1998 Suicide Note to wife June “It’s another manifestation of his...
View ArticleBuzzFeed “The Chilling Mystery of the Black Dahlia” 8-Minute Video
Below BuzzFeed video with “Ryan and Brent” went live yesterday and has had nearly 500K viewers just overnight. Wow! Light hearted, tongue in cheek, but also fairly factual, with a few errors, but...
View ArticleMost Evil II Author Book-signing @ LA Times Festival of Books USC Rare Bird...
April 6, 2016 Los Angeles, California I will be signing my new book Most Evil II at the Rare Bird Book booth 64 on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at 2:30 PM. Come on by and say “hi.” The post Most Evil II...
View ArticleDorothy Huston Hodel (1906-1983) A Remembrance on her 110th Birthday
April 15, 2016 Los Angeles, California Many readers have asked for more information regarding my mother, Dorothy Huston Hodel, or “Dorero”. “What was she like?” “Was she cruel and abusive?” “What were...
View ArticleKiyo Hodel, Laurel Canyon Astrologer to the Stars and the Black Dahlia...
April 19, 2016 Los Angeles, California Kiyo Q: Is your ex-wife KIYO still alive? Do you think she knew about your father and Elizabeth Short? Why was Kiyo’s picture still in your father’s photo...
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