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Black Dahlia Myth Begins As A “Laugh Line” in 1950 Film Noir Classic “Sunset...
April 15, 2017 Los Angeles, California Just two years after the horrific surgical torture murder of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short occurred in Los Angeles mention of the crime was used as a “laugh...
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On True Crime Writing and the Black Dahlia Murder: LAPD Homicide Detective...
April 30, 2017 Los Angeles, California Here’s a short four-minute clip from an interview I did a few years back on the responsibilities of being a True Crime writer. LAPD Det. III Steve Hodel (ret.) on...
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New Black Dahlia Podcast Video Interview with Dash Finley Dark Times
May 16, 2017 Los Angeles, California Below is a link to a recent Black Dahlia interview I did with Dash Finley of Dark Times: Unsolved Horrors and Mysteries, who hosts@supernewslive. The video runs...
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Dr. George Hill Hodel: A New Life and a New Wife in the Territory: Hawaii...
June 4, 2017 Los Angeles, California George Hodel, immediately after his October 6, 1949 arrest for Incest and Child Molestation retained nationally renowned criminal defense attorneys Jerry “Get Me”...
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LAPD Chief Thad Brown, The Black Dahlia, and “Thoughtprints”- Modus Operandi...
June 8, 2017 Los Angeles, California Thoughtprint: The motive within a thought. The ridges, loops, and whorls of the mind, which like the “points” found in a fingerprint, contain the potential to...
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Former South Pasadena High School Spelling Champion George Hodel Feigns...
June 21, 2017 Los Angeles, California George Hodel 1923 South Pasadena Year Book Los Angeles Daily Times June 5, 1923 In the early 1920s teenager, George Hodel attained the highest Public School...
View ArticleThe xx- I Dare You (Official Music Video) Filmed at the Sowden/Hodel 1947...
June 29, 2017 Los Angeles, California The British Rock band, The xx just released and posted a new music video, “I Dare You” which they describe as their “Love Letter to Los Angeles.” Posted six hours...
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Remembering KPFK’s Mike Hodel – Gone But Not Forgotten
July 12, 2017 Los Angeles Mike Hodel ( July 12, 1939- May 6, 1986) Mike Hodel would have been 78 today. My older brother Michael died of lung cancer in 1986, at the relatively young age of- 46. (His...
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More George Hodel Name Games: The Morel of the Story
August 14, 2017 Los Angeles In the 1925 Los Angeles Evening Herald article, “The Clouded Past of a Poet” written by Ted Le Berthon, we recall that George Hodel did not want the Drama Critic to use...
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George and Steve Hodel: Father and Son Fifty Years Later
August 25, 2017 Los Angeles, California 1943 1994 The photo on left was taken on my second birthday in Los Angeles. Photo...
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Governor of Hawaii Provides 1953 Letter of Recommendation Requesting...
September 1, 2017 Los Angeles, California Once again, place the following in your “YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP” file. The below letter was written in September 1953 by then Hawaiian Territorial...
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Serial Killer Dr. George Hill Hodel and Mass Murderer/Genocidist Adolph...
CORRECTION/RETRACTION: Sunday, September 17, 2017, 12 noon Just returned from a Sunday Brunch meeting with my brother Kelvin and his wife, Angel. Kelvin mentioned recalling our mother’s statements,...
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On True Crime Writing and the Black Dahlia Murder: LAPD Homicide Detective...
April 30, 2017 Los Angeles, California Here’s a short four-minute clip from an interview I did a few years back on the responsibilities of being a True Crime writer. LAPD Det. III Steve Hodel (ret.) on...
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George Hodel Funeral Instructions Inspired/Plagiarized from His Hero, the...
September 19, 2017 Los Angeles, California “Finally, I absolutely forbid that my body be opened upon any pretext whatsoever. I would have it laid to rest, without ceremony of any kind.” Marquis de...
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The Black Dahlia Leslie Dillon/Dr. Paul De River Fiasco– A Week of LAPD...
September 24, 2017 Los Angeles, California According to a few inquiries from my readers, I am informed that a new Black Dahlia book reportedly to be published on October 10, 2017 (George Hodel’s...
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International Assn of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts 5-Day Conference Opens with...
September 26, 2017 Redondo Beach, California Steve Hodel invited as Keynote speaker to open the conference with “Black Dahlia and LA Lone Woman Murders” PowerPoint presentation to international...
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Fauna Hodel Dies at age 66-May She Rest In Peace
September 30, 2017 Los Angeles, California Fauna Hodel August 1, 1951 – September 30, 2017 I just received this posting a few hours ago, announcing the death of my niece, Fauna Hodel, who passed away...
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Child Musical Prodigy George Hodel Performs at LA Egan/Little Theater in 1914...
October 9, 2017 Los Angeles, California “George Hodel only 6 years old, proved one of the favorites of the recital. He is, small, but possessed of phenomenal talent as a pianist.”...
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Sowden House Publicity LA Weekly “Most Haunted” Featured Today Coincidentally...
October 10, 2017 Los Angeles, California (Today would have been Dr. George Hill Hodel’s 110th Birthday) Click to LA WEEKLY article, “Most Haunted House John Sowden House” by Jason...
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The Etymology of the Term “High Jingo” by Author Robert “Dr. Watson” Sadler...
October 21, 2017 Los Angeles, California One of my favorite newly discovered words of late has been the term, “High Jingo.” It was first introduced to me through the writings of one of my favorite...
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