Archive for August 2025
Fred Sexton-The Falcon’s Shadow: The Triple Life of an Artist; Predator, Accomplice
Birch Bay, Washington August 31, 2025 Most people who recognize the name Fred Sexton know him only as the man who sculpted the Maltese Falcon statuette for John Huston’s 1941 Warner Bros. classic. But that single credit hides a lifetime of darkness. Sexton was not just an artist. He was my father Dr. George Hill…
Read MoreJe Defends–Dr. Walter A. Bayley
August 28, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Je Défends — Dr. Walter A. Bayley A Good Man Who Served His Country and His County “Bayley, a 67-year-old man with severe Alzheimer’s could not have committed this murder.” — Joseph Wambaugh, Case Reopened: The Black Dahlia (1999) Ex-LAPD Sgt. Joseph Wambaugh The Man Behind the Name Walter…
Read MoreSynchronicities of a Detective: Black Dahlia, Hollywood, and My Origins
August 24, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Synchronicities: A Life Intertwined with Hollywood and History As a homicide detective, I’ve been trained to separate fact from fiction, evidence from coincidence. Yet over the past six decades of investigation, I’ve found that life has a way of weaving both together.In exploring my father’s crimes and the…
Read MoreA New Taunting Double Entendre “Clew” Linking Dr. George Hodel to the 1947 “Black Dahlia Avenger” Mailings
August 20, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington On January 28, 1947, some thirteen days after his torture/murder and posing of the body of Elizabeth Short on the vacant lot in Liemert Park, five miles south of Hollywood, the “Black Dahlia Avenger” mailed in a collage, a cut-and-paste letter to the Herald Express newspaper. It read: “Go…
Read MoreEchoes in Elysian Park—Cast in Stone: A Tale of Two Hodels and the LAPD Police Academy
August 1, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington The Academy: Born from Reform, Cast in Stone The LAPD Police Academy was dedicated in 1936, built with assistance from the federal WPA under Chief James E. Davis, to clean up a force once riddled with scandal. Nestled in the canyons of Elysian Park, it served both as…
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