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Hollywood Black Dahlia Sowden House Featured In Veranda Magazine: Back on the...
Los Angeles, California October 9, 2016 Below article by journalist Brie Dyas, featuring the Sowden/Franklin appeared in Veranda Magazine’s October 7, 2016 edition. Peek Inside The “Mayan” Home Where...
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John Huston, Peter Viertel: White Hunter Black Heart (On Friendship and Cold...
Los Angeles, California October 29, 2016 (Updated from FAQ 42 originally published June 4, 2007) Q: I recently saw the movie, WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART which is supposedly based on the life of the...
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More 1930s Films (The Mystery of Mr. X and Red Dust) As George Hodel’s...
November 3, 2016 Los Angeles, California (This blog originally posted 12.16.2009, but have updated with photos and more-1930s-films which was cut from Most Evil I. Click on link for that PDF.) Murder...
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“LOS ANGELES IN THE 1970S” Book Launch on “The Strip”, Friday, November 18th...
November 13, 2016 Los Angeles, California Author/Screenwriter David Kukoff will launch his Los Angeles in the 1970s anthology at the Standard Hotel, 8300 Sunset Blvd on November 18, 2016, at 7:00 PM....
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Los Angeles in the 1970s Book Launch: A Conversation with Authors Chip Jacobs...
November 19, 2016 Los Angeles, California Click on the ink below to hear a forty-minute conversation with authors Chip Jacobs and Steve Hodel talking about their separate essay contributions to the...
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Los Angeles in the 70s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine No.1 Bestseller at...
November 30, 2016 Los Angeles Big-time kudos to my twenty-eight fellow LA-contributors, and our editor, David Kukoff as Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine, (Rare Bird Books...
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KPFK Radio Host Mike Hodel’s 1983 Lost Video Promo for Hour 25 SFTV Found
December 2, 2016 Los Angeles 1983 Mike Hodel Hour 25 SFTV Video Promo Found (click photo to view 2-minute video) I was recently contacted by email from a reader “Gothling 1955” who provided me with a...
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Most Evil II Audible Book “Introduction” Read by Actor, Screenwriter and...
December 12, 2016 Los Angeles, California Most Evil II “Introduction Chapter” read by Malcolm Hillgartner (9 minutes) Above is a YouTube link to a sample of Malcolm Hillgartner’s narration of the...
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Another George Hodel “Thoughtprint”: Seeing Things As they Are, Not As They...
December 16, 2016 Los Angeles, California Another Family Anecdote “Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions of horses, oxen, carts and other things, nothing is as it appears.”...
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George Hodel Thoughtprint: Part II, Was the “Dead Again” 1940s Noir Thriller...
December 20, 2016 Los Angeles, California Below is a follow-up to my earlier post, “Another George Hodel “Thoughtprint”: Seeing Things As they Are, Not As They Appear to Be.” LW (Luigi...
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Newly Discovered Man Ray 1969 Lithograph “Les Invendables” (The Unsaleables)...
Los Angeles, California December 29, 2016 1969 MAN RAY MINOTAUR HOMAGE TO HIS GOOD FRIEND, DR. GEORGE HILL HODEL (Left) Man Ray 1969 Lithograph depicting posed female body, her face covered with blood...
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LA Weekly Newspaper Author/Historian Hadley Meares Feature Article: “In 1947,...
Los Angeles, California January 4, 2017 CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE Historian, author and tour guide, Ms. Hadley Meares in today’s L.A. WEEKLY, writes a retrospective on LA’s 1947 “Red Lipstick...
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Black Dahlia 70th Anniversary Interview with Journalist/True Crime Author...
January 13, 2017 Los Angeles, California Here’s an interview I did with author/true-crime writer Michael Fleeman for the upcoming 70th Anniversary of the Black Dahlia Murder. Michael Fleeman is a Los...
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70th Anniversary Black Dahlia Retrospective: Summary of New Evidence...
January 15, 2017 Los Angeles, California New Evidence Timeline (Graphic prepared by, Robert “Dr. Watson” Sadler (Click below to open and enlarge) Black Dahlia Murder Inv Timeline 1.13.17 [2] merged...
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Was Zodiac’s 1990 “Secret Pal Christmas Card” a Rayograph? Another Coded...
February 3, 2007 Los Angeles, California Last week I received the following email/comment from a regular contributor to this blog site, Mr. Luigi Warren. He writes: Steve: Found a...
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Looking Back Fifty-Years-1968-69 Rookie Big City Detective Clewless In LA
February 10, 2017 Los Angeles, California “LOOKING BACK” Rookie LAPD Detective Steve Hodel circa 1969 Sleepless in Seattle? How about Clewless in LA. A friend of mine just sent me a...
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Former Metropolitan Opera Singer Paul Veglia Details His Two Month Personal...
February 28, 2017 Los Angeles, California Former Met Opera Singer Paul Veglia, age 84 describes to me his connections and personal contact with Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short when he was a young...
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Using 21st Century Geographic Profiling Software To Investigate the Black...
March 20, 2017 Los Angeles, California GEOGRAPHIC PROFILING “In conclusion, Dragnet (Geographic profiling software) successfully identified both the Hodel residence and the Hodel medical practice as...
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38th Anniversary of Veteran Actor Charles Wagenheim Hollywood Murder: A...
March 31, 2017 Los Angeles This month marks the 38th anniversary of the murder of veteran actor, Charles Wagenheim, who was beaten to death in his Hollywood apartment on March 6, 1979....
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Rare WWII VJ Day Film Footage Believed To Be Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short...
April 6, 2017 Los Angeles, California In recent weeks I have received numerous inquiries asking if the film footage that aired back in 2003 on Dateline and again in 2005 on 48 Hours CBS “Black Dahlia...
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