Posts by Steve Hodel
SBPD Officer Mary Unkefer 1943 Rescuer of Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short Removes New Victim from Hollywood Residence and Reports Dr. Hodel "Staged Suicide and Threats to Kill Witness" to DA Office
(Updated from 2007 blog) Q: Lillian Lenorak identified Elizabeth Short as being a girlfriend of your father’s and also as being at parties at the Franklin House. Could you explain George Hodel’s connection with the policewoman who wrote the letter to LAPD about your father. Yes. The policewoman, Mary Unkefer, was from Santa Barbara Police…
Read MoreKiyo Hodel, Laurel Canyon Astrologer to the Stars and the Black Dahlia Investigation
April 19, 2016 Los Angeles, California Kiyo Q: Is your ex-wife KIYO still alive? Do you think she knew about your father and Elizabeth Short? Why was Kiyo’s picture still in your father’s photo album with Elizabeth Short and other family members? No, Kiyo died from cancer, in 1978, some thirteen years after our divorce…
Read MoreMost 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…
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