Posts by Steve Hodel
Truly Yours, Jack the Ripper Chicago Lipstick Murders Part II Update
April 29, 2021 Los Angeles, California For those unfamiliar with the newly discovered “Truly Yours, Jack the Ripper” Chicago Lipstick Murders Thoughprint see Part I HERE. Here is a follow-up “Part II” to that earlier blog. George Hodel’s use of “Yours Truly” Signature in Serial Crimes to mimic Jack the Ripper’s signage in the 1888…
Read MoreArrest Made In 1996 Kristin Smart Murder: Buster “The Wonder Dog” Nose Knows: Retired Mammoth Lakes PD Sgt. Paul Dostie and Cadaver Dog Buster’s 2016 Dead Body Alert Proven Correct
April 25, 2021 Los Angeles, California 2015 article reporting Buster’s discovery of scent of human remains at the suspect’s residence ignored by law enforcement for six years. HE TOLD ‘EM SO BY JACK LUNCH — 24 APR, 2021 National news was made this week in San Luis Obispo when charges were filed in a 25-year old…
Read More1945 Chicago Lipstick Murders: A New Jack The Ripper Thoughtprint Is Found
April 11, 2021 Los Angeles, California Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper By Robert Bloch (Orig pub May 1943) Once again, huge kudos to my longtime reader and online friend, computer scientist, and bacteriologist, Dr. Luigi Warren, aka LW. LW has regularly contributed his insightful “comments” to many of my “Squad Room Blogs.” In a recent…
Read MoreJournalist/Author Dolores Kennedy: The True Hero in the Seventy-Five Year Struggle to Establish the Wrongful Conviction of William Heirens aka “The Chicago Lipstick Killer”
March 26, 2021 Los Angeles, California I want to introduce you to a real-life hero. Author/Journalist Dolores Kennedy. Dolores convinced that seventeen-year-old, William “Bill” Heirens was wrongfully convicted in 1946, began fighting for justice decades ago. After compiling the many facts pointing to his innocence she published them in her book, William Heirens: His Day…
Read MoreBlack Dahlia “Unidentified Man” Real Identity Made Public After 67-Years of Secrecy (updated)
March 22, 2021 Los Angeles, California Black Dahlia Avenger’s “Gerald Moss” real name is- GEORGE MAIN Elizabeth Short and George Main Strip photo was taken in Indianapolis, Indiana 1946 In a 2005…
Read MoreLA Columnist Jack Smith and Myth Busting The False Claim that Reporter Bevo Means was The First to Name Victim Elizabeth Short, “THE BLACK DAHLIA.”
February 28, 2021 Los Angeles, California “Jack Smith writes like your father would write if he could, like your brother would write if he could, like your neighbor would write if he could. He is wise, he is witty, he is heartwarming. We need him, because he is us.” -Ray Bradbury Let’s set the record…
Read MoreABC News 10 Sacramento “Is The Black Dahlia Murderer and Zodiac Killer the Same Person?”
February 27, 2021 Los Angeles, California Madison Wade ABC News Anchor Sacramento Black Dahlia and Zodiac Same Person? (4 min video) Click Below to Play Madison Wade’s Facebook with further video commentary: Click Below for Madison’s Facebook Madison Wade Facebook commentary on Zodiac Artist Neal Adams 1974 composite drawing of Zodiac for cover of…
Read MoreLA District Attorney Investigator Walter Morgan Redux: His Role in the 1947 Black Dahlia Investigation
February 21, 2021 Los Angeles, California A recent query was made asking about LADA Investigator Walter Morgan’s role in the Black Dahlia investigation. Below is a PDF Post I did way back in September, 2007 “DA Investigator Walter Morgan, The Black Dahlia’s Last Coyote dies at 92.” I was fortunate enough to be able to…
Read MoreBEHIND THE BLACK DAHLIA: Host Alexandria Tan Interviews LAPD Detective III Steve Hodel (ret.) on Crime Investigation
February 20, 2021 Los Angeles, California Here is the eighteen minute interview review BEHIND THE BLACK DAHLIA I did with Pop Up Theatre host, Alexandria Tan. CLICK HERE Steve and George Hodel Host Alexandria Tan
Read MoreBritish Writer/Director Scott McQuaid’s Pop Up Theatre Presents “BEHIND THE DAHLIA” an Interview with Steve Hodel
February 16. 2021 Los Angeles, California Our friends “across the pond” will be presenting an interview I did with host Alexandria Tan as a follow-up to their November 2020 production of “Sherlock Holmes in The Black Dahlia.” It will be streaming on all platforms on 20TH FEB 2021. I will present a link when it…
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