Posts by Steve Hodel
Author Review of Historian David Kulczyk’s book on Little Known and Long Forgotten Crimes–It’s Pure California Gold-
May 16, 2020 Los Angeles, California Just finished reading author/historian David Kulczyk’s book, “California Flakes Fruits and Nuts: True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps and it’s pure California Gold. See my short Amazon review below. A lot of fun and very well written.
Read MoreAuthor Interview with CRIME BEAT’s Ron Chepesiuk on the Black Dahlia Investigation
May 7, 2020 Los Angeles, California RON CHEPESIUK with STEVE HODEL “Black Dahlia 2020” Interview May 7, 2020 Ron is the radio host of the CRIME BEAT Radio Show. The Crime Beat show has been on the air since January 2011 and has listeners in 130 plus countries. Guests have included Henry Hill,…
Read MoreLAPD Detective III’s Harry Bosch and Steve Hodel: Some Synchronicities, or “How I Learned To Do the Boschanova”
May 1, 2020 Los Angeles, California Happy May Day! LAPD Detective III’s Harry Bosch and Steve Hodel: Some Synchronicities, or “How I Learned To Do the Boschanova” I had some fun making this one. This is a fifteen-minute video comparing the life of Michael Connelly’s fictional Detective III Harry Bosch with my own real-life story.…
Read MoreFilm Daily Black Dahlia Article “One of the Saddest LA Stories Ever?”: A Few Fact Checks
April 24, 2020 Los Angeles, California The following article was just posted on the Film Daily website. I responded to the author, Ms. Brynley Louise at the site, with a rather lengthy “comment” fact-checking her piece, but sometimes the comments take a long time to publish and or get “lost in the ether.” I expect…
Read MoreSynchronicity or Happenstance? A Quick Contest for All My “Black Dahlia Armchair Detectives” Out There-Winner Gets a Free Book of Their Choice
April 21, 2020 Los Angeles, California I was going through some boxes from storage yesterday and came across a box of LAPD Retirement goodies. Hard to believe its been thirty-four years, but there you have it. Back then, and I assume it continues through this day, most officers had a “retirement party” gathered for food…
Read MoreRemembering One of LAPD’s Finest- Sgt. Audrey Fletcher: A Woman Who Would Be Chief
April 18, 2020 Los Angeles, California “Had LAPD Sgt. Audrey Fletcher been born an Aubrey with a single X chromosome and one Y chromosome instead of the two XX chromosomes then one letter in her name would have been changed from a D to a B (from Audrey to Aubrey) being born a man, she…
Read MoreNever Before Published Robert “Red” Manley DA and LAPD Interview/Transcript Provides More “Black Dahlia” Questions Than Answers
April 12, 2020 Los Angeles, California Easter Sunday DA Lt. Frank Jemison, senior detective appointed by the 1949 Grand Jury to reinvestigate the unsolved “Black Dahlia” murder, on February 1, 1950, accompanied by LADA detective Frank McGrath and LAPD detective-sergeant Finis Brown and a court reporter, Ms. Florence Weber, drove from DTLA Hall of Justice…
Read MoreAshley Flowers and Brit Prawat of Crime Junkie Podcast Take a Dive into the Troubled Waters of William Heiren’s Lipstick Killer Investigation
April 6, 2020 Los Angeles, California Just finished listening to this morning’s “Crime Junkie” podcast in which Ashley Flowers with her co-host Brit Prawat present their examination into the investigation and arrest of 17-year-old, William Heiren’s as the purported 1945-6, Chicago “Lipstick Killer.” Kudos to their 48-minute podcast which I highly recommend as it gives…
Read MoreThe Gift of Being; A Seed of Light in all this Darkness
April 3, 2020 Los Angeles, California The last few months have been a tough time for all of us. I thought I’d try and bring a little light from the past to try and brighten the present and remind myself and others of the joy and glory of BEING. I wrote this poem some forty-three…
Read MoreEdward Ruscha- “…What celebs are doing in quarantine?” LA TIMES Sunday, March 18, 2020
March 24, 2020 Los Angeles, California Last Sunday’s LA TIMES Calendar Section presented an article For obvious reasons, (see quote below) I particularly liked artist Edward Ruscha’s response to “hunkering down.” In reading his bio (below) I can see with his love affair for Los Angeles through the decades as depicted in his art and…
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