Posts by Steve Hodel
Medical Murders-A two-part Podcast Presented by Alastair Murden and Dr. David Kipper M.D. summarizing the biographical and criminal life of Dr. George Hill Hodel Focusing on The 1947 Black Dahlia Murder
Det.III Steve Hodel LAPD Hollywood Homicide (ret.) May 20, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington Today I am presenting a two-part podcast recorded in 2021 entitled “Medical Murders.” The source material for the podcast has been taken pretty much chapter and verse, from my book, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder. The podcast was produced and…
Read MoreNeil Young Reminisces About His Laurel Canyon Days- Renting and Writing His Early Songs in the Kiyo Hodel Cabin in the Late Sixties
May 5, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington Cinco De Mayo Former Steve and Kiyo Hodel Residence 8451 Utica Dr. Laurel Canyon I married Amilda Kiyoko Tachibana (“Kiyo”) in the summer of 1962 and for a short time we lived at her home on Kirkwood Drive just a block up from the “Country Store.” It was a…
Read MoreBlack Dahlia Star Secret Witness & Hodel Paramour Madi Comfort – Degrees of Separation to Madams and Mobsters
April 26, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington “We all knew that he (Dr. George Hill Hodel) had done it. (Killed Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia). There was no doubt.” Mady Comfort, June 2003 DEGREES OF SEPARATION (Graphic by Robert J. Sadler) The above graphic shows Madi Comfort was at most only 2′ of separation from all…
Read MoreResponse to a 4-Hour Video Rant Claiming to “critique” My Interview with the Sisters In Crime-Atlanta Chapter
April 15, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington (Today would be my mother’s 106th Birthday) Friends and readers have asked me to respond to a recent four-hour YouTube video tirade coming from a long-time self-appointed critic and wannabe writer who has been promising to write and reveal his own “solving of the Black Dahlia murder.” He has…
Read MoreAMERICA IS- An essay by Dorothy Huston Hodel
April 9, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington My mother, Dorothy Huston Hodel, was, in my mind, the personification of The Good, The Beautiful, and The True. She was self-educated, and a voracious reader whose lifelong passions were Art and love for Nature. Mother was a writer. Her dream was to follow in the footsteps of her…
Read MoreDr. George Hill Hodel’s 1942 Presidential Appointment as PA Surgeon to U.S. Public Health Service
April 8, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington In June 2021, I again documented my father’s extensive training as a surgeon providing his medical transcripts which showed 766 hours of surgical training, his performing 53 separate surgical operations and 12 autopsies, followed by a full year of internship at SF General Hospital where he would be performing…
Read MoreLeo Murray, V.P INRA-ASIA Hong Kong Office Confirms Dr. George Hodel’s Health “An Individual of Indefatigable energy.”
April 2, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington Subsequent to my recent hour interview with Dawn Gepfer and the Atlanta Branch of Sisters In Crime several critics raised the question of my father’s “heart condition” after I presented his full UNRRA application and published it in BDA. One critic, who never knew or met or had known…
Read MoreStar Black Dahlia Witness Mattie (Mady) Comfort Former Lover to George and Dorothy Hodel Arrested with Mickey Cohen’s Former Bodyguard for Prostitution
March 29, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington As a follow-up to the recently posted blog with Micky Cohen sharing the same newspaper page with George Hodel in the same court with the same prosecutor and same judge, here’s another connection. Again same page connecting separate crime stories Hodel and Cohen, but this time the headlines involve…
Read MoreSisters In Crime-Atlanta Chapter Video Interview and Q&A on Black Dahlia Investigation
March 27, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington Big thanks to Dawn and all the members of the Sisters In Crime, Atlanta Chapter for yesterday’s talk and Q&A regarding my Black Dahlia investigation. Good talking with you and thanks for the great questions. Below is the link to the entire video interview which runs about 110mins.
Read MoreA First for California Institute of Technology-“Just Fingered” ‘Dahlia’ Killer A CIT Dropout
March 26, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington Here’s a short article published in CalTech University’s campus paper, “The California Tech.” “He is the only known serial killer to have attended Caltech.” The California Tech, April 28, 2003 The editor at Caltech got the dates wrong. George Hodel entered Caltech in 1923 (not 1939) at age…
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