Both My Teams Win- Dodgers#1, Mariners #2

October 11, 2025By Steve Hodel Both My Teams Win — Dodgers #1, Mariners #2 I don’t usually step away from homicide files and case notes to write about baseball — but last night deserves a mention. Both of my teams won — the Los Angeles Dodgers (my #1) and the Seattle Mariners (my #2) —…

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Updated Black Dahlia Avenger — Case Closed (2025): The Truth Wasn’t Lost, It Was Buried — Available October 21, 2025

October 7, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Available October 21, 2025 Pre-Order HERE Author’s Introduction from the 2025 Definitive Edition of Black Dahlia Avenger–Case Closed By Steve Hodel 🎬 Watch the Official 30-Second Promo Video Below Introduction to the Arcade/Skyhorse 2025 Edition I had kept my California P.I. license active. That same year, I had recently concluded…

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Jeanne French, “The 1947 Los Angeles, “Red Lipstick Murder” – LAPD Confirms Victim Murdered by Same Suspect who Killed the “Black Dahlia.”

October 4, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington “The Red Lipstick Murder” Jeanne Axford French On the morning of February 10, 1947, just three weeks after the murder of Elizabeth Short, the body of 44-year-old Jeanne Axford French was discovered in a vacant lot near Grand View and Coliseum Street in West Los Angeles. French — a…

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Coincidence or Destiny? A Star in the Heavens and the Black Dahlia Case

September 15, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Tracing destiny through a father’s gift, a photograph, and the enduring mystery of George Hodel and the Black Dahlia Steve and George Hodel side by side 1943 (Cropped from larger family photo.) For the past twenty-six years I’ve wrestled with the question of coincidence versus destiny. In my younger…

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Case Solved: Black Dahlia Avenger — Updated Definitive Edition Out October 21, 2025 with 150 New Pages

September 11, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Black Dahlia Avenger – Case Closed:2025 Update October 21, 2025 — Mark the date. Twenty-two years ago, I released Black Dahlia Avenger, presenting evidence that my father, Dr. George Hill Hodel, was the killer of Elizabeth Short. That first book sparked a firestorm of debate — hailed as “thoroughly…

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