Posts by Steve Hodel
Jeanne French, “The 1947 Los Angeles, “Red Lipstick Murder” – LAPD Confirms Victim Murdered by Same Suspect who Killed the “Black Dahlia.”
October 4, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington “The Red Lipstick Murder” Jeanne Axford French On the morning of February 10, 1947, just three weeks after the murder of Elizabeth Short, the body of 44-year-old Jeanne Axford French was discovered in a vacant lot near Grand View and Coliseum Street in West Los Angeles. French — a…
Read MoreInside the Envelope: LAPD Brass and the Black Dahlia Cover-Up (Part 3 of 3)
September 28, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington For those of you that have not read Blog 1 and 2 of this 3 part series I would highly recommend you read those prior to reading this Part 3. The links are: Blog 1 link: HERE. Blog 2- link: HERE (Part 3 of 3) By the 1960s and…
Read More“Two Doors Down”-New Clews in the Murder Investigation of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short
Two Doors Down: George Hodel & the Black Dahlia Investigation Clews
Read MoreRuth, Marion and Florence – Not “Suicide” It Was Murder (Part 1 of 3)
“Ruth Spaulding, Marion Keyes, and Florence Feinfield—three women in George Hodel’s circle—reveal clews that foreshadow the Black Dahlia case.”
Read MoreCoincidence or Destiny? A Star in the Heavens and the Black Dahlia Case
September 15, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Tracing destiny through a father’s gift, a photograph, and the enduring mystery of George Hodel and the Black Dahlia Steve and George Hodel side by side 1943 (Cropped from larger family photo.) For the past twenty-six years I’ve wrestled with the question of coincidence versus destiny. In my younger…
Read MoreCase Solved: Black Dahlia Avenger — Updated Definitive Edition Out October 21, 2025 with 150 New Pages
September 11, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Black Dahlia Avenger – Case Closed:2025 Update October 21, 2025 — Mark the date. Twenty-two years ago, I released Black Dahlia Avenger, presenting evidence that my father, Dr. George Hill Hodel, was the killer of Elizabeth Short. That first book sparked a firestorm of debate — hailed as “thoroughly…
Read MoreAuthor, Art Expert Jean-Michel Rabaté on Duchamp, Surrealism, and the Black Dahlia
September 6, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Jean-Michel Rabaté is one of the world’s leading voices on modernism and surrealism. A longtime professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of more than forty books, he has shaped the fields of literary and cultural theory for decades. Rabaté is a founding curator of Philadelphia’s Slought Foundation,…
Read MoreFred 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…
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