The Purloined Letter-Discovery Channel Expedition Files Opens New Season Featuring the Black Dahlia George Hodel 1949 “Martin Letter” in which LAPD Paid Undercover Informant Identifies Killer as “GH”

By Steve Hodel | April 25, 2025 |

April 25, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington “All of the evidence was gone from that case. (1947 murder of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short) I worked Hollywood for a long time. You see so many young people come to Hollywood with dreams in their eyes and unfortunately this gets sidetracked and derailed and they end up having…

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Famed Surrealist Artist/Photographer Edmund Teske Personal Friend to George Hodel and Man Ray and His Direct Knowledge of the Sowden/Hodel Residence; “Women were tortured for sport there. Murders happened there. It’s an Evil Place.”

By Steve Hodel | April 11, 2025 |

April 11, 2025 (Revised/Updated from October 16, 2023) Birch Bay, Washington One of George Hodel’s friends who was “in the know” (and apparently by his own words much more than that?) was surrealist photographer EDMUND TESKE. (His artwork is now prominently displayed in the Getty Museum)  Strange that Edmund Teske and my paths never crossed…

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