Posts by Steve Hodel
THROUGH THE DECADES January 15, 2018 Features 71st Anniversary of Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short Murder
January 15, 2018 Los Angeles, California THROUGH THE DECADES “Black Dahlia” Anniversary interview will be airing on Monday, January 15th. The segment airs at about 32 minutes after the hour. This link shows the markets and channels in around the country. http://decades.com/wheretowatch/ . The program airs daily at 7a, 7p, 10p ET. In Los Angeles, the show…
Read MoreA Blast from the Past? Did Zodiac in his 1969 “Bomb Letter Threat” Leave Us a 46-Year-Old Thoughtprint from His Caltech Student Days?
January 7, 2018 Los Angeles, California “Steve: The Photoelectric Effect thing kind of blows me away. If there were a Nobel Prize for Murder, your dad would have gotten it “ LW (Luigi Warren) I want to share this recent on-line contribution, which to paraphrase both…
Read MoreCritiquing History Channel's "The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer" and their Discovery that "Zodiac May Be Copycatting the Black Dahlia Murder from 1947?"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zodiac-speaking-bill-briere/December 31, 2017 Los Angeles, California Zodiac’s 340Z Code (Mailed to San Francisco Chronicle 11.9.69 Spoiler Alert- For any readers that plan to watch the History Channel’s “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer” be advised that the following critique contains numerous disclosures and…
Read MoreBlack Dahlia Avenger/Zodiac New Handwriting Linkage/ George Hodel Uses Jack the Ripper's "Bleeding Knife Drawing" As One of His Black Dahlia Avenger-Zodiac Crime Signatures
December 14, 2017 Los Angeles, California “After comparing his handwriting to the original documents, we are unable to eliminate Dr. George Hill Hodel as the author of the Zodiac letters. We would like you to provide us with additional samples of his lowercase…
Read MoreJohn Huston Letter No. 6-Rancho Mirage and Halloween 1949 -"A Bat, Cochise, Gorgeous George and a Schmoo"-" Trick or Treat?
December 5, 2017 Los Angeles, California Steve Hodel, age 9, In the desert In my sequel, Black Dahlia Avenger II (2014) Chapter 8, I included fourteen separate typewritten letters written by my mother, Dorothy Hodel to her former husband, famed film director, John Huston. These letters spanned the years from 1948-1957. Author Note: My discovery of…
Read MoreThe Gentleman, The Cowboy and The Bracero: Los Feliz Elementary School 1949
November 19, 2017 Los Angeles It was the second to the last day of April, 1949, a Friday. A light rain was falling on the streets of Hollywood, as the Gentleman, the Cowboy and the Bracero each readied himself for the picture taking. It was mid-morning when each gathered with their separate classmates at Los…
Read More"Waking the Echos of the Spot" Dorothy Huston Hodel and Two Childhood Memories
November 14, 2017 Los Angeles, California Kelvin, Michael, Steven Hodel circa 1944 Dorothy Huston Hodel (Man Ray 1944) One of my strongest childhood memory’s remains a song that our mother sang to us at bedtime. Not…
Read MoreLos Angeles Times Lists 2017 Top Three Haunted "Murder Homes": "Black Dahlia Sowden House," "Menendez Brothers Home" and Phil Spectors "'Pyrenees Castle"
November 12, 2017 Los Angeles, California I’ve heard of the FBI’s “Top Ten Most Wanted” and the “Top Twenty Most Watched Classic Films” even Forbes’s “Top Fifty U.S. Colleges” but the “Top Three Haunted Homes” was new to me. I hadn’t seen this Los Angeles Times article, May 2, 2017 “Hot Properties” article. Had you?…
Read MoreAnother Black Dahlia Portrait at Harvard's Fogg Museum? Part II- Mystery Solved?- Lithograph Possibly Juliet "Julie" Man Ray
November 7, 2017 Los Angeles, California Thanks to the Eagle Eyes of my good friend, Robert “Dr. Watson” Sadler, retired Dallas 5-0 police officer, crime novelist, and all around good guy, our own mystery lithograph has possibly been identified– and it only took him two days! Based on this information the previously unnamed “Portrait” appears…
Read MoreAnother Black Dahlia Portrait? Harvard's Fogg Museum Displays Two Man Ray Artworks-George Hodel portrait and Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short Lookalike
November 5, 2017 Los Angeles, California Two original Man Ray artworks are currently on display at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. The first is a photograph taken by Man Ray of his good friend Dr. Hodel upon his return from China in September, 1946. Dr. Hodel is seen wearing his UNRRA (United Nations Relief and…
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