AMERICA IS- An essay by Dorothy Huston Hodel

April 9, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington My mother, Dorothy Huston Hodel, was, in my mind, the personification of The Good, The Beautiful, and The True. She was self-educated, and a voracious reader whose lifelong passions were Art and love for Nature. Mother was a writer. Her dream was to follow in the footsteps of her…

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Star Black Dahlia Witness Mattie (Mady) Comfort Former Lover to George and Dorothy Hodel Arrested with Mickey Cohen’s Former Bodyguard for Prostitution

March 29, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington As a follow-up to the recently posted blog with Micky Cohen sharing the same newspaper page with George Hodel in the same court with the same prosecutor and same judge, here’s another connection. Again same page connecting separate crime stories Hodel and Cohen, but this time the headlines involve…

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LAPD Arrests Burglar Caught Breaking Into Sowden/Franklin House–Original Crime Scene where Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short was Murdered

2.22.22 Hollywood, California Here’s a short clip from the nightly news reporting the arrest of a burglar who broke into the former residence (Sowden/Franklin house) of Dr. George Hill Hodel at 5121 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood. ABC NEWS (Click below to view) Man arrested for burglary at historic Sowden House in Los Feliz    

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