Posts by Steve Hodel
Fred Sexton’s Maltese Falcon Sculpture Paid Homage in Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (2019)
June 25, 2020 Los Angeles A scene from “Once Upon A Time..in Hollywood” (2019) “Sharon Tate” (actor Margot Robbie) embraces the Maltese Falcon sculpture in Beverly Hills store as Tarantino pay’s homage to the classic 1941 classic John Huston film. The original “Black Bird” was designed by George Hodel and John Huston’s long time friend…
Read MoreA Brief Summary of My LAPD Career and Promotion to Detective III at LAPD Hollywood Detectives
June 16, 2020 Los Angeles, California A number of readers have asked what were my years of service at LAPD and what was my rank when I retired. Here’s a short history of my career assignments during my nearly twenty-four-years with LAPD. I joined the Department in February 1963 and after graduating from the academy…
Read MoreUpdate- 14th Witness Ann Toth Interview found in DA Secret Black Dahlia Files Confirming No “Missing Week”
June 5, 2020 Los Angeles, California Just two days after interviewing witness Connie Starr regarding her sighting of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short, DA Lt. Frank Jemison and LAPD homicide detective-sergeant Finis Brown obtained a second interview substantiating Connie’s statements. As a follow-up to the Starr interview, of January 26, 1950, both detectives met and interviewed…
Read MoreLADA Secret Hodel Black Dahlia Files Reveal 13th Witness Busting the Myth of a “Missing Week”
June 1, 2020 Los Angeles, California “Connie (Starr) stated that she was invited to dinner at Mark Hansen’s by Ann Toth on Saturday, January 11, 1947. That the three of them (Hansen, Toth and Starr) had dinner together and shortly after dinner about 9 PM, Beth Short, and her boyfriend, a young kid with…
Read MoreAuthor 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…
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