BLACK DAHLIA / ZODIAC — SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (UPDATED)-A documented timeline of prior publications and evidentiary patterns

April 26, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington  With renewed national media attention revisiting the question of whether the Black Dahlia and Zodiac cases may be linked to a single offender, I am updating and reposting my earlier work to clarify the historical record. The core connections being discussed today—that the Black Dahlia and Zodiac cases may…

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Dorothy Hodel: Poems, a Letter, Last Will and Testament

April 16, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington (For those who missed it, my previous post on Dorothy, A Poem to an Unborn Child,  can be found HERE.) Several readers have asked for more about my mother, Dorothy. What follows are a few pieces found among her papers—written at different times in her life. Taken together, they…

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A Poem “To an Unborn Child” by Dorothy Huston Hodel

April 15, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington Today would have been my mother, Dorothy Huston Hodel’s 120th birthday. My mother, Dorothy—whom my father called “Dorero”—wrote this poem in July 1977, just weeks before the birth of my first son, Michael. I found it later among her personal papers after she passed. It was written for him.…

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BLACK DAHLIA–ZODIAC: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

April 12, 2026Birch Bay, Washington In recent weeks there has been renewed public discussion, including work associated with the Connelly team, suggesting that the Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings may have been committed by the same offender. That idea is not new—and it is not recent. It is one I first placed into…

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Remembering Murray Rose: Love and Mutual Recognition

April 11,2026 Birch Bay, Washington   The Dating Game crossed my life three times, and each one took a different turn. The first was through my friend Murray Rose, the Australian Olympic swimming champion. Before I met him in Los Angeles in 1966, Murray had appeared as the celebrity bachelor on The Dating Game. He…

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