Posts by Steve Hodel
Denver Colorado Author/Journalist Zack Kopp Reviews "Most Evil II"
January 18, 2020 Los Angeles, California For those that may have missed it I wanted to update and republish the below blog which was originally blogged by me some four years ago, on Feb 6, 2016. Zack Kopp is a highly respected author/journalist and below is his articulate review of Most Evil II shortly after…
Read MoreCan You Identify Artist in Dr. George Hill Hodel Owned Modernist Painting?
January 16, 2020 Los Angeles, California Can you identify this painting and its artist? This photograph of Dr. George Hill Hodel was believed taken circa 1950, just prior to the sale of his Sowden/Franklin home and his departure to Hawaii to avoid arrest by LADA Lt. Frank Jemison. I am attempting to identify the painting…
Read More73rd Anniversary of LA’s Black Dahlia Murder- LAPD Original Police Chief, LAPD Chief of Detectives, LASD UnderSheriff and DA Chief Investigator Confirm “Case Solved” In 1950 and Name Dr. George Hill Hodel Former LA County Chief of Social Hygiene As Her Killer
January 15, 2020 Los Angeles, California 73rd Anniversary of the Elizabeth Short, “BLACK DAHLIA” MURDER Photo Credit Robert J. Sadler, true crime author/photographer BLACK DAHLIA MURDER LOCATION George Hill Hodel inside his residence office—January 15, 1947, Black Dahlia Crime Scene Location DA/LAPD transcripts of secret tape recorded electronic surveillance of Dr. George Hill Hodel in…
Read MoreUNRRA “Lieutenant General” Dr. George Hill Hodel’s 1946 Post-WWII Personal Journal “THE CHINA LETTER” Publishes on the 73rd Anniversary of his 1947 LA Kidnap/Torture Murder of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short.
January 10, 2020 Los Angeles, California (Jan 15th is the 73rd Anniversary of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short Murder) THE CHINA LETTER by Dr. George Hill Hodel Click Photo to Enlarge (Intro/Afterword by Steve Hodel) UNRRA Lieutenant General George Hill Hodel, M.D. was, (during his time in Hankow and the nearby provinces), the…
Read MoreEntertainment Weekly Magazine (January 2020 edition) Names “Root Of Evil” Podcast as Top Pick For 2019
December 28, 2019 Los Angeles, California Entertainment Weekly’s current (January 2020) edition picks Zak Levitt’s production of ROOT OF EVIL: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia Murder as one the three 2019’s podcasts, “WE COULDN’T TURN DOWN.” Congrats to Zak and his team at Cadence 13. “…this haunting docuseries is a…
Read More“Is Your Name Steven?”-Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus -2019
December 25, 2019 Christmas Day Los Angeles, California Drove out to Pasadena this morning to meet and have Xmas Brunch with two of my longtime friends, Carole and Ron. I arrived at the Mexican Restaurant El Torito a few minutes late, parked my car, and met them inside. Great buffet and conversation and after almost…
Read MoreMrs. X’s 1945 Letters from the Grave- George Hodel’s Motive for Murder of His Clinic Secretary- Ruth Spaulding
December 22, 2019 Los Angeles, California (Updated from an earlier FAQ 69 posted on 3/29/2008) Mrs. X’s—1945 Letters from the Grave On the back of the thick brown envelope, the handwritten note read, “NOT TO BE TAMPERED WITH OR OPENED BY ANYONE EXCEPT ——-.” The writer, a young married woman, distraught with hands shaking, had…
Read More1947 “Heartaches” First Big Screen Film (PRC Pictures) To Reference Black Dahlia Murder Just Five Months After Crime Occurred
December 8, 2019 Los Angeles I recently received this “heads up” email from an astute reader, “Bill S.” Here’s an oddity, Steve: A long-forgotten 1947 PRC murder mystery, “Heartaches” from 1947. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64CkQUryMc Take a look beginning at around 13:38 in. Is this the first movie reference to the…
Read MoreAuthor Ray Bradbury and a Hodel Quartet of Synchronicities- 1948-1953-1982-2004
December 6, 2019 Los Angeles, California Mike Hodel and Ray Bradbury on “Hour 25 SFTV” (1982) photo by Steve Moore Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related. Bradbury Event No.…
Read MoreA Little Levity: GuthrieGate and Author’s LAPD Pre Employment Mug Shot
November 20, 2019 Los Angeles, California Time for a little levity. Levity No. 1 First, as some readers may know, the great American folk singer/songwriter, Woody Guthrie was (like many other celebrities of his day) whispered to be, “a suspect in the Black Dahlia Murder.” The “Guthrie investigation” lasted about ten minutes. Just about as…
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