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Famed 1940s LA Times Artist and Staff Writer Unwittingly Immortalize Black Dahlia Crime Scene and Her Killer’s Childhood Residence Great Christmas present 2025
The following blog was originally published in June, 2012, but anyone looking for a great Christmas present this year I highly recommend you find a copy of Nuestro Pueblo. The book contains sketches of BOTH George Hodel Sr. and George Hill Hodel M.D. residences and gives an excellent overview of Los Angeles in the 1940s. …
Read MoreWere Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray’s 1947 "Priere de toucher" (Please Touch) Artworks Inspired by Dr. George Hodel’s Surrealist Crime Scene Masterpiece?- Update 2022
July 2, 2022 Birch Bay, Washington UPDATE TO 2016 Blog Post June 25, 2016 Los Angeles, California Throughout my investigation, I have discussed at length my father’s “Murder as a Fine Art” crime-signature M.O. I have linked it to what I term, The Man Ray Nexus. (The Minotaur, The Lovers Lips, L’Equivoque, Juliet Stocking Mask,…
Read MoreArtist/Illustrator Neal Adams 1974 Zodiac Book Cover Sketch Original Source Traced To SFPD Police Composite Drawing Update 2021
October 15, 2021 Los Angeles, California Update to “Zodiac Composites” blog original posted 2018 I am now reposting and updating a blog originally posted three years ago for those unfamiliar with the fact that THREE ZODIAC COMPOSITES exist all made from witness descriptions from the late 1960s and early 1970s. My reason for reposting this…
Read MoreDenver Colorado Author/Journalist Zack Kopp Reviews "Most Evil II"
January 18, 2020 Los Angeles, California For those that may have missed it I wanted to update and republish the below blog which was originally blogged by me some four years ago, on Feb 6, 2016. Zack Kopp is a highly respected author/journalist and below is his articulate review of Most Evil II shortly after…
Read MoreElizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short and Primary Detective Assigned to Solve Her Murder Share Birthday- July 29th
July 29, 2019 Los Angeles, California (Updated from original 2015 post) Today is the shared birthday of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short and the lead investigator in her kidnap/torture murder, Detective Finis Brown. In an ironic twist of fate both the murder victim and the…
Read MoreJury Returns Verdict in Court of Public Opinion on Dr. George Hill Hodel in Elizabeth Short “Black Dahlia” Murder
February 8, 2019 Los Angeles, California
Read More“I AM THE DAY” – Dorothy Huston Hodel (1906-1982) – “Dorero”-The Real “I Am The Night- Corinna Hodel”
February 2, 2019 Los Angeles, California (Orig blogged April 15, 2006, updated this date.) Fiction and Fact- Actress Connie Nielsen plays my mother, “Corinna Hodel” (Dorothy Hodel) in the TNT miniseries “I Am The Night” – Here’s the real Dorothy (SKH Note- Much of this blog was originally published by me in 2016, as a remembrance…
Read MoreFormer Charles Manson Prosecutor/ LA Head DDA Stephen Kay 2006 Video Interview on Black Dahlia and Red Lipstick Murders "Solved" Updated 2019
January 18, 2019 Los Angeles, California (Updated from 2006 original blog) CLICK BELOW PHOTO LINK FOR KAY VIDEO (2 mins) Head DDA Steve Kay Dahlia Solved Steve Kay and Steve Hodel 2002 “Steve Hodel has taken this way beyond the pictures. It no longer depends on the pictures. I have no doubt in…
Read MoreUpdate on Police Informant W. Glenn Martin Letter – Los Angeles Times Article Suggests Letter Written on October 26, 1949 – Lucille Bowen in Martin Letter a New Murder Victim or Natural Death? – Judge for Yourself
November 2, 2018 Los Angeles, California I originally reported the LAPD police informant W. Glenn Martin Letter appeared to be written on October 25th (written over Oct 26) but I have located the article he referenced in the newspaper and it is apparently from the Los Angeles Times, dated October 26, 1949. Martin in his…
Read MoreBlack Dahlia Avenger III: The New Evidence Well Received by Attendees to the South Pasadena Library Author Talk/PowerPoint
November 3, 2018 Los Angeles, California Thanks to all of the hardy souls that chose to battle Los Angeles afternoon/evening traffic to attend my PowerPoint Talk on Thursday at the South Pasadena Library. The talk hosted by the one and only Steve Fjelsted, Librarian extraordinaire! (Very cool guy who has become a good friend…
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