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Courtroom Drama of the Century
ABOUT STEVE
Steve Hodel was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He served four years as a medic in the U.S. Navy, and then joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1963. After six years in uniform patrol, he transferred to Hollywood Division Detectives where he worked all of the “tables”: Burglary, Robbery, Auto-Theft, Juvenile, Crimes against Persons and was then permanently assigned to the Homicide Detail.
ABOUT STEVE'S BOOKS
Steve’s first book, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder published in 2003 with new updated investigative chapters added to the HarperCollins paperback edition in 2004 and 2006. Black Dahlia Avenger is a New York Times Bestseller, a NYT Most Notable Book and was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category.
Steve’s sequel, MOST EVIL: The Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel, is scheduled to be published by DUTTON – PENGUIN GROUP on September 21, 2009.
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Jeanne French, “The 1947 Los Angeles, “Red Lipstick Murder” – LAPD Confirms Victim Murdered by Same Suspect who Killed the “Black Dahlia.”
October 4, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington “The Red Lipstick Murder” Jeanne Axford French On the morning of February 10, 1947, just three weeks after the murder of Elizabeth Short, the body of 44-year-old Jeanne Axford French was discovered in a vacant lot near Grand View and Coliseum Street in West Los Angeles. French — a…
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