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Winter Solstice 2023 Black Dahlia Avenger IV, Editor and Author’s Audio End...
December 21, 2023 Birch Bay, Washington Winter Solstice, 2023 As we enter this Winter Solstice, 2023, I would like to wish you all a safe and happy holiday and best wishes for the New Year. Let us pray...
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Away in a manger: MERRY CHRISTMAS 2023 from author Steve Hodel
December 25, 2023 Birch Bay, Washington Christmas Day Merry Christmas 2023 Had to share this “Away in a Manger” card with all of you this Christmas morning. Sent to me by my good friend of close to...
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Rima Hodel Takes Detective I Exam at Sehome High School Auditorium: Test...
December 26, 2023 Birch Bay, Washington As we close out 2023 I wanted to update readers who have been querying me on “When was Rima scheduled to take the Detective I exam?” I dropped her off YESTERDAY,...
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Correction to today’s article in The Messenger, “Unsolved Hollywood Mystery:...
December 30, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Just read the below, well-written article in The Messernger by Eboni Boykin-Patterson : “Unsolved Hollywood Mystery: The 1949 Disappearance of an Aspiring...
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Homicide Investigations – From Fact to Theory -Black Dahlia Murder to Jeanne...
January 2, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Sherlock Holmes makes the above elementary observation in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and this is the exact point that I would like to make this morning as we begin...
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Big News in Little Birch Bay Washington- Rima Hodel’s Detective Test Results...
January 9, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Big News in Birch Bay! The below letter was received in yesterday’s mail. Take a read: How cool is that! It took me seven years to make Detective I and Rima did...
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A Timeline of Horror: The Reconstruction of the Abduction and Torture Murder...
January 10, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Four days from today, January 15, 2024, marks the 77th anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth Short. Based on my now twenty-five-year investigation into that 1947...
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Dr. Charles Wesley Hill-Next Door Neighbor to the 1947 Black Dahlia Crime...
January 13, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington In my BDA series of books, I think I only mentioned our neighbor, “Dr. Hill” twice, in passing. The first was that we three boys would play next door with his...
View Article77th Anniversary -Black Dahlia Interview with KFI Crime Reporter George Knapp...
January 15, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Today is the 77th Anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short and the posing of her body on a vacant lot at 3825 S. Norton Avenue in the Liemert...
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Buster and the Black Dahlia: The Scent of Death-Soil at Sowden/Hodel House...
January 20, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington In 1950 the original DA investigators suspected that Dr. George Hill Hodel may have buried victims’ bodies in the basement of the Sowden/Franklin House, where my...
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The 1945-6 Chicago Lipstick Killer Murders; The Teen William Heirens Letters...
January 26, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Note to Readers providing questions/responses in my Comment section. Since the inception of my blogging (2005) I have always welcomed and encouraged questions,...
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David Thomson, Author, Film Critic-Historian Extraordinaire Thank You for...
February 6, 2023 Birch Bay, Washington I want to wish author and film critic/historian David Thomson an early (February 18) HAPPY BIRTHDAY. (Turns out we are the same age, and David is just eight...
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A Thank You and Congrats to my Good Friend and Fellow Author and Longtime...
February 21, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington This morning I would like to take a moment to recognize the extraordinary skill and abilities of my good friend and fellow author, Robert J. Sadler. Robert and...
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1925 Los Angeles Library “Character Analysis In Photography” One-Man-Art...
February 24, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Self Portrait Artist/Poet George Hodel circa 1924 In December 1925 young George Hodel having just turned eighteen (18), had a one-man art exhibit which he termed...
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NY Newspaper Reporter Johanna Elattar Reviews The Black Dahlia Revisited on...
March 13, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington My apologies for my tardiness in blogging Johanna’s article summarizing my Elizabeth Short, Black Dahlia investigation for its 77th Anniversary (January 15, 2024)....
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Los Angeles’ 1943-1950 “Black Dahlia Avenger” and Lone Woman Serial Crimes...
March 14, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Some Comments from Non-Readers of Author Steve Hodel’s Books: “According to Steve Hodel, his dad, George Hodel, started his serial murders as a teen and never...
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Former “Mind Hunter” FBI Profiler John Douglas in Contrite Admission Now...
March 24, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Retired FBI “MindHunter” now agrees with Original Longtime Heirens Defender Dolores Kennedy that “Heiren’s was Innocent” In 2003 in Black Dahlia Avenger, in regards...
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Death By Misadventure–Jacy Nova Interview with Black Dahlia Author Steve...
April 31, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Easter Sunday Today’s blog is not exactly about Easter Bunnies and Egg Hunts. But I wanted to provide listeners with Jacy Nova’s excellent interview, which was done...
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On the 21st Anniversary of the Publication of Black Dahlia Avenger: A...
April 5, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington A Personal Note to My Readers This upcoming week marks the 21st anniversary of the publication of Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder (Arcade 2003). As...
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Remembering Dorothy Huston Hodel: Born this day, on April 15, 1906
April 15, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Photo by Man Ray 1944...
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