Archive for December 2019
Entertainment Weekly Magazine (January 2020 edition) Names “Root Of Evil” Podcast as Top Pick For 2019
December 28, 2019 Los Angeles, California Entertainment Weekly’s current (January 2020) edition picks Zak Levitt’s production of ROOT OF EVIL: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia Murder as one the three 2019’s podcasts, “WE COULDN’T TURN DOWN.” Congrats to Zak and his team at Cadence 13. “…this haunting docuseries is a…
Read More“Is Your Name Steven?”-Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus -2019
December 25, 2019 Christmas Day Los Angeles, California Drove out to Pasadena this morning to meet and have Xmas Brunch with two of my longtime friends, Carole and Ron. I arrived at the Mexican Restaurant El Torito a few minutes late, parked my car, and met them inside. Great buffet and conversation and after almost…
Read MoreMrs. X’s 1945 Letters from the Grave- George Hodel’s Motive for Murder of His Clinic Secretary- Ruth Spaulding
December 22, 2019 Los Angeles, California (Updated from an earlier FAQ 69 posted on 3/29/2008) Mrs. X’s—1945 Letters from the Grave On the back of the thick brown envelope, the handwritten note read, “NOT TO BE TAMPERED WITH OR OPENED BY ANYONE EXCEPT ——-.” The writer, a young married woman, distraught with hands shaking, had…
Read More1947 “Heartaches” First Big Screen Film (PRC Pictures) To Reference Black Dahlia Murder Just Five Months After Crime Occurred
December 8, 2019 Los Angeles I recently received this “heads up” email from an astute reader, “Bill S.” Here’s an oddity, Steve: A long-forgotten 1947 PRC murder mystery, “Heartaches” from 1947. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64CkQUryMc Take a look beginning at around 13:38 in. Is this the first movie reference to the…
Read MoreAuthor Ray Bradbury and a Hodel Quartet of Synchronicities- 1948-1953-1982-2004
December 6, 2019 Los Angeles, California Mike Hodel and Ray Bradbury on “Hour 25 SFTV” (1982) photo by Steve Moore Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related. Bradbury Event No.…
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