Fritz Coleman and Louise Palanker Media Path Podcast: Interview Steve Hodel on his Black Dahlia Investigation
September 17, 2020 Los Angeles, California Very much enjoyed my video/podcast interview last Tuesday, with Fritz Coleman and Louise “Weezy” Palanker on their new and very cool show on Media Path Podcast. Both are real pros and have contributed majorly to Southern California and Hollywood Storytelling for decades. Here’s the YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK: Here’s…
Read MoreSanta Monica Daily News Reporter Jack Neworth Interviews “Black Dahlia” Acquaintance Paul Veglia
September 11, 2020 Los Angeles, California (Blessing and Rest In Peace to all those that lost their lives in NYC in the 9-11 attack in 2001) Reproduced in full below is an excellent article from the Santa Monica Daily News by reporter, Jack Neworth that features Paul Veglia, who is one, (or maybe the only…
Read MoreAuthor/Photographer Alix Lambert’s book, “CRIME”: A Series of Extraordinary Interviews Exposing the World of Crime, Real and Imagined”
August 22, 2020 Los Angeles, California CRIME by ALIX LAMBERT A series of extraordinary INTERVIEWS exposing the world of CRIME-REAL and IMAGINED In 2008 author/photographer/documentarian Alix Lambert published a remarkable book on CRIME where she interviewed fifty (50), individuals on the subject. As her title implies the interviews covered both “the real and imagined.” Here…
Read More1942 Photograph of Dr. George Hill Hodel Lecturing at LAPD Police Academy on Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short’s Birthday
July 29, 2020 Los Angeles, California Elizabeth Short’s Birthday Today would have been murder victim Elizabeth Short’s 96th Birthday. In another bizarre synchronicity, the below photograph of Dr. George Hill Hodel was taken by the press photographer during his lecture at the Los Angeles Police Department Police Academy where Dr. Hodel, then Head of L.A.…
Read MoreBlack Dahlia Noir Perfume-“A Femme Fatale and Fatal Flower” and the Scent of Death?
July 28, 2020 Los Angeles, California “The formless fastidiousness of perfumes in a seventeenth-century boudoir is comparable to my mind in the presence of twilight.” …
Read MoreA Death in the Family-Grandfather Harvey from Black Dahlia Avenger II Chapter 16
July 24, 2020 Los Angeles, California “Harvey” and Harvey- The Pooka and the Printer Continuing the “Nothing Is As It Appears” surreal reality of Dr. George Hill Hodel I here present my readers with the eight-page chapter on my maternal grandfather, Charles Eugene Harvey his life and his death. (Published in BDA II 2014 ed.) …
Read MoreInvestigation Discovery: Crime Obsession with Traci Stumpf- Black Dahlia Interview with Steve Hodel
July 22, 2020 Los Angeles, California Here’s a six-minute video interview I did with Traci Stumpf giving a quick overview of my Black Dahlia investigation. Ironically, and synchronistically, without her being aware, she posted it to air back on October 10, 2019, which just happened to be the birthday of my father, Dr. George Hill…
Read MoreDorothy Harvey (Huston/Hodel) Short Story Published in Her 1921 LA Franklin HS Yearbook
July 16, 2020 Los Angeles, California Below is a short story that was written by my mother, Dorothy Harvey, (just a few years before marrying her first husband, John Huston) and published in her high school yearbook (Benjamin Franklin HS, Los Angeles, California) in 1921, when she was just sixteen. She would also star in…
Read MoreMady Comfort, Duke Ellington’s original “Satin Doll”, Former Lover of Dr. George Hill Hodel and her status as Prime Witness in 1947 Black Dahlia Investigation
Los Angeles July 12, 2020 (Happy Birthday Brother Mike! Many of you knew him from his KPFK “Hour 25” radio show in the Seventies/Eighties. He would have been 81 years old today, but sadly he died at age 47 in 1986.) Below FAQ was originally published ten years ago, but I am updating and republishing…
Read MoreFred Sexton’s Maltese Falcon Sculpture Paid Homage in Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (2019)
June 25, 2020 Los Angeles A scene from “Once Upon A Time..in Hollywood” (2019) “Sharon Tate” (actor Margot Robbie) embraces the Maltese Falcon sculpture in Beverly Hills store as Tarantino pay’s homage to the classic 1941 classic John Huston film. The original “Black Bird” was designed by George Hodel and John Huston’s long time friend…
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