Posts by Steve Hodel
1947 Top U.S. & British Journalists Condemn Chicago Newspapers Reportage In Heirens "Lipstick Killer" Case
“CONDEMNED BEFORE HIS TRIAL–AMERICA CALLS THIS JUSTICE” London Sunday Pictorial, 1946 William Heirens, today, age 81, is serving his 64th year in prison. Excerpt from the book, YOUR NEWSPAPER: Blueprint For A Better Press (The MacMillan Co. NY, 1947) pg. 49: “The Tribune trying to live up to the slogan of being “the…
Read MoreREMBERBERING MICHAEL PAUL HODEL
MICHAEL PAUL HODEL July 12, 1939 – May 6, 1986 Today would have been brother Mike’s 71st birthday. He was a man of and for The People. For the underdog, the little guy. He never hesitated to speak out against injustice. He is greatly missed. GOOD NIGHT MIKE! Here are some brief memories from his short…
Read MoreWAVE OF THE FUTURE CRIME DETECTION IS HERE! LAPD'S "GRIM SLEEPER" ARREST ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH USE OF 21ST CENTURY DNA TOOLS
DOJ CRIME LAB CRIMINALISTS LINKED SON’S DNA TO FATHER USING STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY Criminalists with the state Justice Department who matched the suspect’s DNA to his son are, from left, Linton VonBeroldingen, Steven Myers, Jim Wiegand, Gary Sims, Matt Piucci, Ken Konzak and Bureau Chief Jill Spriggs at the DNA lab in Richmond. (Genaro…
Read MoreLA Serial Killer "Grim Sleeper" Identified & Arrested Through Son's DNA
LAPD ALLEGES SON’S DNA LINKS FATHER TO 11 LA MURDERS OVER PAST THREE DECADES- According to authorities, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. , a former LAPD mechanic and city trash collector has been linked to the murders of 10 woman and one man over past twenty-five year period. Investigators remove items from home of Lonnie David Franklin Jr.(Gary Friedman, LA…
Read MoreMarion Hodel- My Mysterious Cousin- "Paymaster" at Hollywood Park, Santa Anita and Del Mar racetracks
I really know very little about my cousin, Marion Hodel. Perhaps that is why to this day, he remains in my mind, as a bit of a mystery. A shadowy family figure. I only met Marion on perhaps three or four occasions, and each time was while I was “playing” and he was working. Cousin Marion was the Paymaster at all…
Read MoreJack Egger, 1949 Black Dahlia DA Investigator, BHPD Police Captain, Chief Investigator for Warner Bros. Security, Dies
Career law-enforcement investigator, Jack Egger was one of the last witnesses to see Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short alive. In 2003 Egger, then Chief Investigator for Warner Bros. Studio, positively identified a photograph of Dr. George Hill Hodel as being the man who was with Elizabeth Short and escorted her to a CBS radio show in Hollywood, just days before…
Read MoreMichael Hodel Visits his father, Dr. George Hill Hodel – Manila 1964
In 1964, brother Mike took our dad up on an invitation to visit him in the Far East with the prospect of possibly coming to work for him at his company, INRA-ASIA. (International Research Associates-Asia). Mike visited dad for several weeks and toured the offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Manila. (Mike passed on the offer…
Read MoreJune 15, 2010- Begin Writing Book III
June 15, 2010, Los Angeles Today I “officially” start work and writing on BOOK III. John Huston as Noah Cross in Chinatown Thought for the Day:
Read MoreGrandfather Harvey- Hollywood High School Printing Instructor 1928-1941
(SKH NOTE- Below blog updated 6.10.2010 See additional entries bottom paragraphs.) FROM PRINTER TO POOKA Hollywood, California Thanks to some old fashioned gumshoe sleuthing by my brother, Kelvin and his wife, Angel, (with perhaps a little unseen help from “Harvey” the invisible rabbit and pooka extraordinaire) we now have some new information and photos to add to…
Read MoreDNA Establishes "False Confession" NY Court Releases Innocent Man After 19 Years In Prison
MAJOR KUDOS TO THE ONGOING EFFORTS AND CONTINUED SUCCESS OF THE INNOCENCE PROJECT IN HELPING TO FREE THE INNOCENT. Below articles written by the INNOCENCE PROJECT. A False Confession Reversed in New YorkOn April 28, Innocence Project client Frank Sterling (above) walked out of a Rochester, New York, courthouse a free man for the first time…
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