Posts by Steve Hodel
Black Dahlia Avenger/Zodiac: Unexpected Help from Home and Abroad- Announcing the 2015 Inspector Clouseau Award Honorees
December 4, 2015 Los Angeles Each of the three above named individuals contributed a major piece of evidence which helped solve the serial crimes now collectively known as the Black Dahlia Avenger: LA Lone Woman Murders and the San Francisco Zodiac Murders. While each one has been previously recognized…
Read MoreAuthor Michael Connelly's Hieronymos "Harry" Bosch-An Identity Crisis?
Los Angeles, California November 23, 2015 (Originally posted in 2010 and updated November 2015) I rarely read mystery novels, with one major exception- those written by bestselling author, Michael Connelly. Michael Connelly Prior to 2003, I had never heard of him. My first awareness of Connelly’s writings came in 2003, post-publication of Black Dahlia Avenger, when the…
Read MoreAuthor Talk at BOOK SOUP – Wed, November 18, 2015 7:00 PM MOST EVIL II PowerPoint, Q&A, Book Signing
Los Angeles, California I will be presenting a PowerPoint discussion and Q&A on my just-published sequel, MOST EVIL II at the West Hollywood Sunset Strip BOOK SOUP BOOKSTORE, 8816 Sunset Blvd., on WED, November 18 2015 at 7:00 PM. Hope to see you there.
Read MorePasadena Weekly Magazine on George Hodel Zodiac Cipher Solution and South Pasadena Library Author Talk
November 6, 2015 Los Angeles, California Pasadena Weekly Reporter Carl Kozlowski’s article “Surprising Signs” introduced area residents to last night’s 7:00 PM PowerPoint presentation of MOST EVIL II, at one of my all time favorite venues, the South Pasadena Library. …
Read MoreSteve Hodel Author Talk, PowerPoint and Book Signing on Just Published "Most Evil II" at South Pasadena Library Nov 5th, 2015 at 7PM
Hope to see you at my author talk next week on Thursday, November 5th, 2015 at 7:00PM At the South Pasadena Library. Will do a PowerPoint talk and signing on my just published book, Most Evil II.
Read MoreMaureen O’Hara Heroine of 1943 "White Rose Murders" CBS Radio Broadcast Dies at Age 95- Radio Drama Inspired Dr. George Hodel to Commit Real Life Murder
Dr. George Hill Hodel “LA Lone Woman Murders” serial killer reenacted Cornell Woolrich’s “White Rose Murders” script “ by committing a real life “White Gardenia Murder” just twenty days after Miss O’Hara’s CBS performance. Maureen O’Hara 1942 CBS “Suspense Theatre” Radio Show was the Inspiration for George Hodel’s murder of victim, Ora Murray, labeled by the…
Read MoreTamar Nais Hodel Dies at 80 in Honolulu, Hawaii
October 18, 2015 Los Angeles, California REST IN PEACE Two weeks ago today, my half-sister, Tamar Nais Hodel, passed away in her sleep. She was eighty years old. She bore, five children. Two daughters, Fauna and Fauna II (Deborah Elizabeth), and three sons, Peace, Love and Joy. My heart…
Read MoreLA's THE LAST BOOKSTORE and RARE BIRD BOOKS Present NYT Bestselling Author Steve Hodel in a Book-signing and Lecture Friday, October 16th 7:00 PM Downtown Los Angeles 5th & Spring
THE LAST BOOKSTORE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH 7:00 PM 453 S. SPRING ST, LOS ANGELES New York Times Bestselling Author of BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER STEVE HODEL SIGNS AND PRESENTS MOST EVIL II For more information click HERE.
Read MoreU.K. Sunday Times Matt Rudd's "Crimes Scenes" – The Zodiac Murders Part 2- Columnist Asks, "Could the 1940s Black Dahlia Avenger and the 1960s Zodiac be the same person–Dr. George Hill Hodel?
October 4, 2015 Los Angeles, California The below article, “The Zodiac murders: Part 2” appeared in this morning’s London Sunday Times in the senior writer, Matt Rudd’s, “Crime Scenes” column. (Part 1, backgrounding the Zodiac crimes published the previous Sunday, September 27, 2015.) Matt asks: “Could it be that the Zodiac killer of the 1960s…
Read MoreMost Evil II- An Email from "J.R." and a "Hello Dali" Question Relating to Surreal Killer, Dr. George Hill Hodel
Surrealist artists Salvador Dali and Man Ray I Wanted to share some early comments from my “Man in the Street”, J.R. Neumiller. “J.R.” has followed my investigation and made regular personal comments and observations since the original publication of Black Dahlia Avenger back in April 2003. Here is his latest e-mail sent to me after his…
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