Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short's 90th Birthday

By Steve Hodel | July 29, 2014 |

July 29, 2014 Los Angeles, California Today would have been Elizabeth Short’s 90th birthday. May she REST IN PEACE.   Also, by pure HAPPENSTANCE  today, Elizabeth’s birthday,  is also the day I retired from LAPD some 28 years ago.   And, by a double-happenstance, today is also the birthday of  LAPD Sgt. Finis Brown, who…

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Author to Present Black Dahlia Talk to Peninsula Seniors Wed July 30, 2014 10:30 A.M. in Rancho Palos Verdes

By Steve Hodel | July 3, 2014 |

  PENINSULA SENIORS LECTURE GROUP, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA JULY 30, 2014 (WED)  10:30 A.M. Fred Hesse Community Park 29301 Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos Verdes 90275 Free Public Lecture  Open for All I will be presenting a PowerPoint Presentation covering my Black Dahlia investigation followed by a Q&A. Bulletin courtesy of the Peninsula Seniors For…

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Black Dahlia Cadaver Dog Buster and Sgt. Paul Dostie Praised in "Just Labs Magazine" for Locating Several Hundred WWII MIA's on Tarawa

By Steve Hodel | June 26, 2014 |

                      Los Angeles, California Buster,  and his  owner/handler, retired Mammoth Lakes Police Sgt. Paul Dostie appear in this months JUST LABS magazine (July/August 2014) in an outstanding feature article, “A ‘Tail’ of an Incredible Dog”,  written by Donald K. Allen, MS, DVM. See the full…

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Are the Human Remains of One or More of the Three 1940s L.A. Lone Murder Victims Buried on the Hollywood Hillside Property Now Owned by Actress Laura Prepon?

By Steve Hodel | June 11, 2014 |

          Laura Prepon, Co-star of television series- Orange is the New Black U.S. Magazine Laura Prepon   Los Angeles, California June 10, 2014 While I personally remain skeptical on “things that go bump in the night” and endorse science over ghost-hunting; nevertheless I recognize that a very large portion of the…

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NBC News Airs Sowden-Hodel Residence Cadaver Dog Buster's Soil Analysis Results – Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Arpad Vass Confirms Crime Scene Soil "Specific for Human Remains"

By Steve Hodel | June 1, 2014 |

        Click to view New NBC video                   Collage NBC News May 31, 2014 June 1, 2014 Los Angeles NBC news reporter, Patrick Healy’s follow-up piece, “Ex-Cop Cites New Evidence His MD Father Was Serial Killer” aired last night on NBC’s Nightly News. NBC Reporter…

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One Week after Purporting the "Zodiac Case Solved" Handwriting Expert Appears to Have Inadvertently Accused a Baptist Minister of Being the Zodiac Killer

By Steve Hodel | May 26, 2014 |

  J’accuse…! Gary Stewart/Susan Mustafa book             QDE Michael Wakshull book                   “I am virtually certain that the writer of the marriage certificate between Earl Van Best Jr. and Judith Chandler is the same writer as the writer of the Zodiac letters.” Michael…

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Newly Discovered Zodiac Halloween Card Findings Suggest a Direct Link to 1952 Western Comic Book and to George Hodel

By Steve Hodel | May 15, 2014 |

May 15, 2014 Los Angeles, California In recent months, new evidence originally unearthed and examined by Zodiac researchers on several Internet websites, including Tom Voigt’s www.zodiackiller.com offers a new theory on one of the known Zodiac mailings. The new evidence focuses on  Zodiac’s Halloween Card, which he mailed to crime-reporter Paul Avery at the San…

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Dr. George Hodel 1940s "L.A. Lone Woman Murders" Victim Map Update

By Steve Hodel | April 16, 2014 |

Los Angeles, California Here is an updated map showing the approximate locations of the nine (9) “L.A. Lone Woman Murders” in chronological order, covering the years 1943-1949 prior to George Hodel fleeing the country in 1950. In BDA I and II I have catagorized these murders as “Category I- Definites” as opposed to the additional…

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