NYT Book Review Finds New British Author’s “Black Dahlia, Red Rose” Book...
October 27, 2017 Los Angeles, California “For all its salacious content, Eatwell’s historical crime study is an expansive work that delves into the broader culture of postwar Los Angeles… Her zealous...
View ArticleAnother Black Dahlia Portrait? Harvard’s Fogg Museum Displays Two Man Ray...
November 5, 2017 Los Angeles, California Two original Man Ray artworks are currently on display at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. The first is a photograph taken by Man Ray of his good friend Dr. Hodel...
View ArticleAnother Black Dahlia Portrait at Harvard’s Fogg Museum? Part II- Mystery...
November 7, 2017 Los Angeles, California Thanks to the Eagle Eyes of my good friend, Robert “Dr. Watson” Sadler, retired Dallas 5-0 police officer, crime novelist, and all around good guy, our own...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times Lists 2017 Top Three Haunted “Murder Homes”: “Black Dahlia...
November 12, 2017 Los Angeles, California I’ve heard of the FBI’s “Top Ten Most Wanted” and the “Top Twenty Most Watched Classic Films” even Forbes’s “Top Fifty U.S. Colleges” but the “Top Three...
View Article“Waking the Echos of the Spot” Dorothy Huston Hodel and Two Childhood Memories
November 14, 2017 Los Angeles, California Kelvin, Michael, Steven Hodel circa 1944 Dorothy Huston Hodel (Man Ray 1944) One of my strongest childhood memory’s...
View ArticleThe Gentleman, The Cowboy and The Bracero: Los Feliz Elementary School 1949
November 19, 2017 Los Angeles It was the second to the last day of April, 1949, a Friday. A light rain was falling on the streets of Hollywood, as the Gentleman, the Cowboy and the Bracero each...
View ArticleJohn Huston Letter No. 6-Rancho Mirage and Halloween 1949 -“A Bat, Cochise,...
December 5, 2017 Los Angeles, California Steve Hodel, age 9, In the desert In my sequel, Black Dahlia Avenger II (2014) Chapter 8, I included fourteen separate typewritten letters written by my mother,...
View ArticleBlack Dahlia Avenger/Zodiac New Handwriting Linkage/ George Hodel Uses Jack...
December 14, 2017 Los Angeles, California “After comparing his handwriting to the original documents, we are unable to eliminate Dr. George Hill Hodel as the author of the...
View ArticleCritiquing History Channel’s “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” and their...
December 31, 2017 Los Angeles, California Zodiac’s 340Z Code (Mailed to San Francisco Chronicle 11.9.69 Spoiler Alert- For any readers that plan to watch the History Channel’s...
View ArticleA Blast from the Past? Did Zodiac in his 1969 “Bomb Letter Threat” Leave Us a...
January 7, 2018 Los Angeles, California “Steve: The Photoelectric Effect thing kind of blows me away. If there were a Nobel Prize for Murder, your dad would have gotten it “ LW (Luigi Warren)...
View ArticleTHROUGH THE DECADES January 15, 2018 Features 71st Anniversary of Elizabeth...
January 15, 2018 Los Angeles, California THROUGH THE DECADES “Black Dahlia” Anniversary interview will be airing on Monday, January 15th. The segment airs at about 32 minutes after the hour. This...
View ArticleCan DNA Testing of John Walsh America’s Most Wanted 1990 “Remember Me?...
January 19, 2018 Los Angeles, California “Scorpion’s” Remember Me?” threatening letters and Cryptograms mailed to America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh in 1990 In Black Dahlia...
View ArticleArtist/Illustrator Neal Adams 1974 Zodiac Book Cover Sketch Original Source...
“I am 100% certain that the book-cover sketch (Great Crimes of San Francisco) I drew back then [1974] was based on material that was directly related to the crime. ” Neal Adams Comic-Con, San Diego...
View ArticleGeorge Hodel and Juliet Man Ray Letters: 1980s Correspondence and a Meeting...
February 7, 2018 Los Angeles, California “Je me souviens des jours ancients, et je pleure.” “I remember the old days, and I cry.” George Hodel in his letter to Juliet Man Ray dated 27 July 1983 Prior...
View ArticleLAPD Police Museum “New Evidence” May Hold Key to DNA Solution to Black...
February 18, 2018 Los Angeles, California “…I must respectfully decline that request. (one hour meet with detectives to discuss new DNA evidence) Given the fiscal constraints facing the City, and the...
View ArticleActor Richard Herd (One of Six Ex-Husbands of Kiyo Hodel ) Still Going Strong...
March 5, 2018 Los Angeles, California Actor Richard Herd seen below in his 2017 role as patriarch Roman Armitage in GET OUT (2017). The film received four nominations for Oscars in the following...
View ArticleMost Recent Editions of Black Dahlia Avenger I & II and Most Evil I & II:...
March 18 2018 Los Angeles, California I have received numerous requests from readers asking me to clarify, “Which are the latest editions for both BDA and Most Evil?” Below are the four most recent...
View ArticleReelz TV “Murder Made Me Famous” Features Serial Killer Rodney Alcala –Author...
April 8, 2018 Los Angeles, California Actor Jay Allen ( Upper left) portrays serial killer Rodney Alcala (Upper right) in Reelz TV “Murder Made Me Famous” Season 3, Episode 9 “The Dating Game Killer.”...
View ArticleGolden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo Identified Through GEDmatch Public DNA...
May 11, 2018 Los Angeles, California Enterprise-Journal headline announcing the Sacramento, California arrest of ex-cop Joseph DeAngelo Jr. for eight serial murders that occurred in the 1970s and...
View ArticleSecond Thirty-Year-Old Cold Case Solved Through Use of Civilian DNA Database
May 19, 2018 Los Angeles, California Following just three weeks after the Sacramento arrest of Golden State Killer/Rapist Joseph DeAngelo another thirty-year-old cold case has been solved by the use...
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