A Reader’s Questions-Setting the Record Straight On Some Black Dahlia Misinformation from A Critic
June 18, 2024
Birch Bay, Washington
An Email from a reader, David ____.
SKH Note: I have blocked out the name of the “expert” and the sender’s last name. I know of who David speaks. He is a troll and curmudgeon who has been misinforming and misrepresenting my investigation for decades. I’ll leave it at that.
Hi David:
Yes, happy to answer your questions. FYI, All of your questions have been answered in my books, so let me set the record straight.
Q1: A: I/We never lived in the Franklin House at that age. My father bought it in 1945, and we moved in with my grandfather and his then-wife when I was four. Dad returned from China when I was five, and we lived in the house off and on until 1950, when I was 9 or almost 10.
So, I lived in the house from ages 5-10. We three brothers took many bike trips from the house to Barnsdall Park and spent summer days biking to Ferndell Park, which was about one mile away. Hunt frogs in the creek and play all day at ages Mike 10, Steve 8, and Kelvin 7.
Q2:A: We only lived at the Franklin House after their divorce. My father didn’t own it before then and only moved in on his return from China in 1946. My mother and we three sons lived there at his will off and on until he fled the country and sold the house in 1950. I have never claimed “celebrities” came to the house, only named John Huston (my mother’s ex husband and friend of my father’s) and Man Ray. We boys did witness cocktail parties with many people at the home.
Q3:A: My only source on my father’s IQ score was my mother, who told us three sons, “Your father’s IQ is 186, one point above Albert Einstein’s.” I have no idea where she got that number; I only know that he was one of “Termen’s Termites” as a youth, and the newspapers called him “a genius on several levels.”
Q4:A: If he has my father’s school records, then he got them from my book. I indicated that they show “755 Hours of surgery.” (That equals 94.3 full eight-hour days of practicing nothing but surgery.) Do you think that is enough to learn how to divide a body? Also, documents show he was the sole surgeon at a logging camp after receiving his M.D. and after a year of practicing surgery at San Francisco General Hospital as an intern.
Q5:A: He is either ignorant of the facts or outright misrepresenting the truth of it. I am not going to repost Elizabeth Short’s burn marks here. They are posted in my books, and a highly respected forensic medical doctor has identified them as either cigarette or cigar burn marks. (9 or 10) and I have shown them as distinct from the moles, which are also identified on her back, as is the operation scar. The same photo also shows the ligature marks on her neck, as reported by the LAPD and the Coroner’s Report. Leaving off this torture trauma on their reports is very likely “the secret” they kept from the public to rule out fake confessions and mental cases claiming “to have killed her.” Some of the photos taken at the coroner’s office were taken by the same photographer, “GL,” who had taken them at the crime scene. They bear his initials and the DR (District Reporting) Number and were taken on the bare gurney. The photos of the burn marks were taken separately and show the body turned on its face on a sheet on the gurney. I do not believe LAPD has these photos as they were/are not aware of the burn marks, so I may be the only one in possession of the original burn mark photographs obtained by me from the granddaughter of the original Black Dahlia investigator, Det. Harry Hansen.
Q6:A: Well, your “expert” may have finally gotten one right. He has been “writing a Black Dahlia book” for over two decades now (I have written nine in that time span, which are basically all one ongoing followup investigation), and at his going rate, he will likely finish in another twenty years, which would make me 102, so we can give him that one.
I hope this answers your questions. Best Regards.
Steve
The unmistakable fingerprints of (name edited out), no doubt. He’s been a thorn in the side of truth forever: Positing his ridiculous theory of (name edited out) and others as suspects over the years. The Rubicon was crossed when the DA files were released, confirming and validating your investigation.
Steve: I recall the guff I had to plow through after I first got interested in your father’s case in 2016. Like, of course Man Ray wasn’t obsessed with the Marquis de Sade, and of course he wasn’t pals with GHH. Yeah, no… he absolutely was. Same old same old. -LW
LW: I know this particular critic is obsessed. He has been proven wrong in accusing a totally innocent man and on many other points. He even managed to draw LAPD and Ellroy into his net of confusion for a bit. But now, he’s pretty much alone and abandoned—a vindictive and sad curmudgeon.
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For anyone to deny you’ve solved the BD at this point have not read your books or have a financial incentive in saying you haven’t.The DA files as well as blatant and numerous pieces of evidence, pointing like a giant red neon arrow at GHH. George had been all but named in the newspaper yrs before the BD murder for killing that Romeo dentist. George all but admitted her murder to Baron von Haringa on the da’s tapes. The evidence in the DA’s vault coupled with the confirmations given over the yrs that all independently said it was a Dr in Hollywood n on Franklin? Not to mention you obviously loved your Pops and set out to vindicate him n stumbled on this horror. How they could think this would be an outcome you would’ve wanted enough to manipulate the case to accomplish, its beyond willful ignorance on their part.
I’d like to see one real piece of evidence that contradicts that George did it and many other murders? I’ve not seen or heard of one, not one that proves George innocence.
Thank you for all the hard work n personal dedication to the truth and finally solving these cases. Best wishes to you n your Detective Hodel.
Frank A:
Thanks Frank for the kind words. Yes, the evidence presented in my follow-up investigations takes it way over the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard required to convict. Most of my critics admit they “haven’t read the books”. Best wishes to you and yours.
Hi Steve,
You set the record straight in your books. For this “researcher” (I hesitate to use the word, but there you go) to blatantly misrepresent your evidence shows how willfully obtuse he is and incapable of admitting he is wrong.
You have solved the Black Dahlia and other cases, much to your readers’ delight and to your own sorrow. I wish that you had found someone else as the culprit. Uncovering such a dark family secret – not that anyone knew about it – was really hard. And I don’t have to insert “probably” in there.
Have a great rest of the day and stay safe.
Ron:
Thanks Ron. Appreciate your compassion and understanding.
Many individuals find it difficult to admit when they are wrong. Most will
never change and rather take the falsehood to their grave rather than admit it.
Sadly, I suspect he and his “followers” are such types. It takes courage to be honest.
Best to you and yours.
Tarnisch has long made it his mission to spread misinformation about George. Anyone who clearly looks at the evidence will see that all signs point to George as responsible for BD, among other crimes. I’d rather trust the words of a retired detective than a retired newspaper columnist. Also he’s never gonna finish that book, the world might end before he does.
Hey Steve,
I binge listened to the podcast tonight, and I just gotta say -don’t forget your living sons. Don’t be so stuck on the dead, a murderer, that you forget the present, your own living children. Be the father you couldn’t have.
Best,
SW
SW:
Oh, I haven’t. That is WHY I moved up here to the great Northwest. To be close to my sons and grandchildren. Now I see them once or twice a month instead of once a year. Loving the move to be closer to my family.