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Elizabeth "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) 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…
Read MoreBLACK DAHLIA MURDER- Breaking News New Evidence from 1949 Letter Written by LAPD Paid Informant Confirms Prime Suspect Dr. George Hill Hodel as Killer
October 29, 2018 Los Angeles, California The following major “Breaking News” article written by Daniel Vasquez and Anne Vasquez as a Special to the South Pasadenan has just posted online. Click on photo to link to full article. BLACK DAHLIA MURDER | Retired LAPD detective reveals new evidence pointing to prime suspect — his father EXCLUSIVE…
Read MoreAuthor Steve Hodel To Reveal Historic Black Dahlia Related "Breaking News" New Evidence At South Pasadena Library Talk- November 1, 2018 7:00 P.M.
Los October 24, 2018 Angeles, California Thanks to a most welcome invitation from my good friend and South Pasadena Librarian, STEVE FJELSTED, I will be presenting a PowerPoint Talk next week at the beautifully designed (1907) South Pasadena Library Community Room. See below poster for details. Hope to see you there. As indicated below, I…
Read MoreOn the Scent of Dahlia Noir: Givenchy Presents Perfume as "A Fatal Flower of Unreal and Imaginative Compositon for Mysterious and Fascinating Women."
October 23, 2018 Los Angeles, California Back in 2011 I wrote a short blog on the advertisement by Givenchy for their just-released perfume, Dahlia Noir. (Link Here) http://stevehodeloldsite.staging.authorbyteshosting.com/2011/09/givenchy_launches_new_black_da/ Below is a separate article that was written in 2012 which I had not previously seen. It was…
Read MoreOn the High Seas with "Baron Ernst Harringa" Crime Accomplice to George Hodel as told by then 11-year-old Gil Osgood
October 8, 2018 Los Angeles, California On Sunday Oct 7, 2018 I received the below Message from Gil Osgood, a retired computer programmer at the University of Oregon. It read: Message I was working today on a memoir about my sea voyage in 1952…
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