Posts by Steve Hodel

File Under “Proud Papa” Category Not only did I name my eldest son, Michael Sean Hodel in honor of my older brother, his uncle Mike, but he also lucked out and got his BRAINS. My son returned from a vacation in Europe this summer to happily discover that he had been selected to be a contestant on Alex Trebek’s JEOPARDY SHOW. Mike’s  show will…

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CBS’ ’48 HOURS MYSTERY’S Season Premiere: The Killing Game will air this coming Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 at 10 P.M. ET/PT.                                                    Rodney James Alcala                                          1978                              2010 The program will summarize the crimes of serial-killer, Rodney Alcala recently convicted in Orange County for multiple murders and sentenced to death.  I was interviewed for the show related…

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Just received a heads-up e-mail from B.H. that the one of the original Black Bird props made famous in John Huston’s 1941 film, THE MALTESE FALCON has flown back and perched on the auction block and will be up for bid on September 24, 2010.  As many of my readers know, John Huston friend to George Hodel and Fred Sexton since…

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 September 7, 2010 Dutton-Penguin Group imprint, BERKLEY BOOKS has today published the paper-back edition of MOST EVIL: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel.  Hard to believe its been a year since the original publication, but THERE IT IS! I have to admit to a personal preference for Berkley’s new choice of cadmium…

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 LAPD Chief Beck’s public comment regarding old/cold L.A. investigations may signal a turnaround from the Bratton Administration’s position. (Author Note- Chief Bratton and Robbery Homicide’s detective Brian Carr now both retired made public statements that the police Department was too busy with then current investigations to examine my new evidence and findings in the 1947 Black Dahlia and other 1940s L.A. Lone Women…

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 ZODIAC’S INSTRUCTIONS     Breaking the Mt. Diablo Code   In the above diagram, I have inserted and am using Zodiac’s original hand drawn compass circle and cross. I have followed his precise instructions and have positioned his circle to point to Magnetic North.  (Tilting Zodiac’s circle approximately 17° east) Zodiac tells us this will…

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Just when I thought it was finally OK to file away the LADA Black Dahlia-Hodel Surveillance Files, to coin a outdated an much overused term- “THE PLOT THICKENS” In a recent re-reading of some of the transcribed pages from the LAPD/DA tape-recorded surveillance, I noted the mention of a name that seemed familiar, but a couldn’t…

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Finally Common Sense Rules-  Man Freed After Serving 8th year of his 25 to Life Sentence for attempting to steal some food from a L.A. Church. “This is justice long overdue.”                                          Los Angeles DA Steve Cooley See AP article below:   LA Judge Frees Thief Who Got 25 Yrs On 3rd Strike by The Associated Press…

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  DADAISM … based on the principles of deliberate irrationality, anarchy, and cynicism and the rejection of laws of beauty and social organization… Randomness was a key element to all things DADA. Dada Chance-Randomness- See clip Tristan Tsara: To Make A Dadaist Poem In my opinion, George Hodel, as a practicing Dadaist and serial killer,…

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  RECENT SUCCESS OF LAPD/DOJ TEAMWORK IN COMPUTER LINKING OF DNA MAY HOLD PROMISE IN SOLVING OF ZODIAC COLD CASE KILLINGS? Do these three (3) Untested Southern California Evidence Letters Contain Zodiac’s DNA?   Southern Calif Zodiac Letters LAPD and Riverside police departments hold three separate letters believed written by ZODIAC and mailed to the press and police in Southern California.  Each of…

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