Archive for April 2020
Film Daily Black Dahlia Article “One of the Saddest LA Stories Ever?”: A Few Fact Checks
April 24, 2020 Los Angeles, California The following article was just posted on the Film Daily website. I responded to the author, Ms. Brynley Louise at the site, with a rather lengthy “comment” fact-checking her piece, but sometimes the comments take a long time to publish and or get “lost in the ether.” I expect…
Read MoreSynchronicity or Happenstance? A Quick Contest for All My “Black Dahlia Armchair Detectives” Out There-Winner Gets a Free Book of Their Choice
April 21, 2020 Los Angeles, California I was going through some boxes from storage yesterday and came across a box of LAPD Retirement goodies. Hard to believe its been thirty-four years, but there you have it. Back then, and I assume it continues through this day, most officers had a “retirement party” gathered for food…
Read MoreRemembering One of LAPD’s Finest- Sgt. Audrey Fletcher: A Woman Who Would Be Chief
April 18, 2020 Los Angeles, California “Had LAPD Sgt. Audrey Fletcher been born an Aubrey with a single X chromosome and one Y chromosome instead of the two XX chromosomes then one letter in her name would have been changed from a D to a B (from Audrey to Aubrey) being born a man, she…
Read MoreNever Before Published Robert “Red” Manley DA and LAPD Interview/Transcript Provides More “Black Dahlia” Questions Than Answers
April 12, 2020 Los Angeles, California Easter Sunday DA Lt. Frank Jemison, senior detective appointed by the 1949 Grand Jury to reinvestigate the unsolved “Black Dahlia” murder, on February 1, 1950, accompanied by LADA detective Frank McGrath and LAPD detective-sergeant Finis Brown and a court reporter, Ms. Florence Weber, drove from DTLA Hall of Justice…
Read MoreAshley Flowers and Brit Prawat of Crime Junkie Podcast Take a Dive into the Troubled Waters of William Heiren’s Lipstick Killer Investigation
April 6, 2020 Los Angeles, California Just finished listening to this morning’s “Crime Junkie” podcast in which Ashley Flowers with her co-host Brit Prawat present their examination into the investigation and arrest of 17-year-old, William Heiren’s as the purported 1945-6, Chicago “Lipstick Killer.” Kudos to their 48-minute podcast which I highly recommend as it gives…
Read MoreThe Gift of Being; A Seed of Light in all this Darkness
April 3, 2020 Los Angeles, California The last few months have been a tough time for all of us. I thought I’d try and bring a little light from the past to try and brighten the present and remind myself and others of the joy and glory of BEING. I wrote this poem some forty-three…
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