Posts by Steve Hodel
Hollywood's Hitching Post Theatre – Fond Memories From 1948-49
Sunday, February 13, 2011Los Angeles, California In BDA I write that some of my fondest childhood memories from the late 1940s were playing with my brothers in Fern Dell Park just up the street from our Franklin House, where we hunted for crawdads and frogs or played Cowboys and Indians. High on that same list was- Hollywood’s Hitching Post Theatre, where my brothers and…
Read MoreHansen’s L.A. Confidential, Scorsese’s, The Aviator; George Hill Hodel’s Franklin House; ART IMITATES LIFE
L.A. Confidential (1997) Director Curtis Hansen and writer, Brian Hegeland’s, L.A. Confidential (one of my all-time favorite films about Los Angeles) was released just two-years before my father’s death in 1999. At that time I was blissfully unaware that I was about to be pulled into my own 1940s L.A. Rabbit Hole,…
Read MoreProsecutors Join Call To Release Thomas Haynesworth who is now Serving 27th Year on Wrongful Conviction
February 3, 2011 DNA ESTABLISHES HIS INNOCENCE. “75% of all wrongful convictions are based on witness misidentifications.” See Innocence Project Summary below: Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to view it online. February 3, 2011 266 EXONERATED BREAKING NEWS Prosecutors Join Innocence Project in Calls for Virginia Man’s Exoneration The Innocence Project…
Read MoreAttorneys Tom Girardi/Howard Miller "Champions of Justice" Black Dahlia Avenger/ Steve Hodel Radio Interview now on Podcast
I have received a number of e-mails requesting I post the January 9, 2011 “Champions of Justice” radio interview I did with attorneys Tom Girardi and Howard Miller. (Tom was Erin Brockovich’s civil attorney on the PG&E suit and Howard is the 2010 past-president of the California State Bar Association.) The interview was conducted one-week prior…
Read MoreRODNEY ALCALA INDICTED IN NEW YORK ON 40-YEAR-OLD MURDER
It will be forty years ago, this fall, that I flew to New Hampshire, arrested and extradited Rodney Alcala back to Los Angeles to answer charges for the rape and attempted murder of 8-year-old, Tali Shapiro. What I and the public were unaware of then, was that earlier that same year (1971) Alcala while living under the alias…
Read MoreDR. GEORGE HILL HODEL DNA PROFILE OBTAINED BY TOP-RANKED FORENSIC LAB
New DNA Evidence Potentially Opens Door to Solving of 1940s & 1960s Serial Killings January 15, 2011 Los Angeles, California 6:45 a.m. Today is the 64th anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth Short. As I post this announcement I cannot help but reflect on the irony and the horrific fact that her sadistic killer had just…
Read MoreILLINOIS PREPARES TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
“We’ve had 20 innocent people on Death Row,” said Jeremy Schroeder, executive director of the Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty. “It’s time to be done with the moratorium and do the right thing.” (Reuters) – Illinois was poised to become the first state since 2009 to abolish the death penalty after the state Senate…
Read MoreCHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE Radio Show Interview- Sat Jan 8 & Sun Jan 9- Black Dahlia Investigation 2011
This coming Saturday, January 8, 2011, just one week before the 64th anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth Short, I will be interviewed by Los Angeles based “super-lawyers,” Tom Girardi and Howard Miller (Law Firm of Girardi/ Keese) on their weekly radio show, CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE. Tom was part of the team of lawyers that won the 333 million dollar class action…
Read MoreHortensia Hodel Starke, 89 – Dies in the Philippines
Dr. George Hodel’s ex-wife served in Philippine Congress from 1987-1995 Corgresswoman Hortensia Hodel Starke circa 1988 My ex-stepmother, Hortensia Laguda Hodel Starke suffered a heart attack and passed away on November 29, 2010 in her home in Negros Occidental, in the southern Philippines. Hortensia originally met my father on a visit to Los Angeles in 1949 when…
Read MoreLAPD Detective Sgt. Finis Brown suggests "Unknown Hollywood Doctor" may be Dahlia Killer in Secret 1949 Grand Jury Testimony
Deputy Chief Thad Brown’s brother, Sgt. Finis Brown, primary investigator on Black Dahlia case, places “unidentified Hollywood doctor” at top of HIS LIST. I was recently reviewing some of my papers and transcripts from the DA Files related to the testimony of various witnesses who were called to testify before the 1949 Grand Jury related to…
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