Posts by Steve Hodel
“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 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…
Read MoreProfessor Roland Giolli Dies At 85: Respected Neurobiologist Provided Key Information Corroborating LAPD Chief Parker’s Knowledge That Dr. George Hodel Was The Black Dahlia Killer
November 9, 2019 Los Angeles, California Roland Andrew Giolli PhD 1934-2019 Professor Roland Giolli at his microscope (Photo courtesy of and taken by his son, Mark) This morning I received an email notification from Mark Giolli, the son of Professor Roland Giolli, informing me that his father passed away some five months ago. Sad news.…
Read MoreFirst “Black Dahlia Murder” Reference Found in Big Screen Film Release of “Heartaches” (1947) Just Five Months After Crime Occurred
November 7, 2019 Los Angeles, California Thanks to the “heads up” from Bill S. in the below comment section. I had always thought that the 1950 classic film “Sunset Boulevard” reference to the Dahlia murder was the first on the Big Screen, but NOT SO. As Bill S. points out, here is a much earlier…
Read MoreRebekah Sebastian True Crime Expert Podcast: DIE ALOGUE with Author Steve Hodel – Black Dahlia 2019 Airs November 6th
November 5, 2019 Los Angeles, California Rebekah Sebastian Intro (1 min.) Die Alogue Link
Read MoreLAPD’s Sgt. Joe “Just The Facts” Friday of Dragnet Fame (Actor Jack Webb) Provides Second Account Corroborating That Black Dahlia Killer was Dr. George Hill Hodel
October 31, 2019 (Halloween) Los Angeles, California Actor Jack Webb in the role of LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday Click on graphic for Dragnet Introduction (1 minute) This is the city. Los Angeles, California. Population four million. It was a brisk Holloween Eve and I was working the night watch out of my home office when…
Read More“Professor X” Discovers a Seventy-Year-Old Major “Thoughtprint”- Man Ray 1948 Drawing Depicts A Couple Witnessing a Nude Woman Being Sexually Assaulted in the Courtyard of Dr. George Hodel’s Sowden/Franklin Residence (1947 Black Dahlia Crime Scene)
October 22, 2019 Los Angeles, California BACKGROUND: 1948 Gift from Man Ray to Dr. George Hodel Man Ray sculpture, “Objet de mon affection- L’oculiste” 13 ¼ x 8 x1 ½” created in 1944 and gifted to his good friend Dr. George Hill Hodel in 1948 just after the publication of Alphabet For Adults (Copley Galleries,…
Read MoreAuthor Interview with Journalist Zack Kopp-“George Hodel’s Exquisite Corpse(s): Beyond The Black Dahlia”: Setting The Record Straight On Miniseries, “I Am The Night”
October 19, 2019 Los Angeles, California GEORGE HODEL’S EXQUISITE CORPSE(S): BEYOND THE BLACK DAHLIA Here is a link to a just-posted interview I did with journalist Zack Kopp which deals with my overall investigations and setting the record straight regarding the fictional miniseries, I Am the Night. Here is the lead to Zack’s interview: Former…
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