Posts by Steve Hodel
Most Evil II Author Book-signing @ LA Times Festival of Books USC Rare Bird Books Booth 64 Sat, April 9, 2016 2:30 PM
April 6, 2016 Los Angeles, California I will be signing my new book Most Evil II at the Rare Bird Book booth 64 on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at 2:30 PM. Come on by and say “hi.”
Read MoreBuzzFeed "The Chilling Mystery of the Black Dahlia" 8-Minute Video
Below BuzzFeed video with “Ryan and Brent” went live yesterday and has had nearly 500K viewers just overnight. Wow! Light hearted, tongue in cheek, but also fairly factual, with a few errors, but that’s showbiz. See 8-minute video at below link. Update May 8, 2016: Here is a five-minute clip from CBS 48-Hours which originally…
Read MoreIn a Mocking Taunt to Humanity Zodiac Killer Names and Registers a Star After Himself in Constellation Aquila
Los Angeles April 1, 2016 “I have a reserved place in constellation Aquila” Included in George Hill Hodel intended 1998 Suicide Note to wife June “It’s another manifestation of his enormous ego, an immortal mocking of humanity fixed and registered in the Zodiac’s constellation, Aquila.Even after its namesake’s…
Read MoreZodiac Uses His Real Name To Sign 1970 Cipher Message- Animation Reveals Killer's True Identity M. Yves Person, a Paris High School Teacher Cracks Ancient Celtic Ogham "Tree Alphabet"
March 26, 2016 Los Angeles, California Original 1970 Zodiac Halloween “You Ache To Know My Name” Card Mailed to San Francisco Chronicle This video presents the decryption and solving of the mysterious cipher included in the authenticated mailing by the serial killer known as “Zodiac” to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1970. The cipher was…
Read MoreThe Case of the Stolen 1400-Year-Old Chinese Sacrificial Tablet – Did George Hodel Use the Item During the Sowden House Torture Murder of Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short?
Chinese Sacrificial Tablet HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C. – A.D. 220 10″x6″x1″ Photo from THE MET museum believed similar in appearance to stone tablet taken in 1947 burglary from Sowden/Hodel residence described as being: “11”x6″x31/2″ bearing about 50 Chinese characters carved on a dark gray stone.” March 2, 2016 Los Angeles, California The Los…
Read More"Buster" World Famous Police Cadaver Dog Dies from Sudden Heart Attack – Praised for Locating WWII MIA Gravesites and Helping Crack "Black Dahlia" Murder
February 27, 2916 Los Angeles, California Buster and Sgt. Paul Dostie on a MIA search in Normandy, France I received some extremely sad news this morning from my good friend, Paul Dostie, retired Mammoth Lakes PD police sergeant. Here is his email: Hello Friends, Tonight at about 5:30 P.M. I had just finished cleaning the horse pens. Buster…
Read MoreMaltese Falcon- Revisiting the 1941 Crime Scene – The Black Bird, Huston, Hodel, Sexton Part II
February 23, 2016 Los Angeles, California My friend, J.R. Neumiller, when hearing in my earlier blog that I was off to catch the 75th-anniversary screening of The Maltese Falcon left a comment on my earlier blog as follows, “Why do I get the impression you’ll cine away with a clew?” Well, J.R., I saw…
Read MoreFebruary 2016 Vanity Fair Article Explores — John Huston, Fred Sexton and The Black Dahlia Avenger Investigation: The Stuff That Surrealist Dreams are Made Of
February 20, 2016 Los Angeles, California A BIRDIE AND A BOGIE This month’s Vanity Fair magazine’s lead article, The Mystery of the Maltese Falcon: One of the Most Valuable Movie Props in History, by Bryan Burrough is an excellent read. Burrough provides a history on “The Black…
Read MoreMOST EVIL II (Black Dahlia/LA Lone Woman Murders, Zodiac) Author Talk & Signing Santa Monica Public Library Thursday Jan 21 2016 7:00 pm
Santa Monica Library Talk (Free Admission) Thursday, January 21, 2016, 7:00 pm 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=19224
Read MoreScreenwriter/Noir Novelist David Goodis Film "The Unfaithful" References Real Time 1940s L.A. Lone Woman Murders
Los Angeles January 14, 2016 Tomorrow marks the 69th anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short. Rest in Peace, Elizabeth. Below photo sent to me this afternoon (1.15.16) by a Los Feliz District resident who received it in his email. Unknown person posted a large photograph of victim on front entrance wall of…
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