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.
LATEST BLOG
The Sowden/Hodel Franklin House History Link-Some Historical Corrections and a Virtual Tour
March 22, 2023 Birch Bay, Washington BEFORE 2001 RENOVATION 1969 photos show the “Before” taken twenty years after George Hodel sold the residence in 1950. As pictured in the above photographs had been vacant/unoccupied since that date. Developer Xorin Balbes bought home in 2001 for 1.2 million and spent another 1.6 million in restoring the…
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