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Author 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…
Read More1949 Article in NY Daily News Provides Additional Details and Testimony on George Hodel Incest Trial
September 30, 2018 Los Angeles, California Tamar’s mother, Dorothy Barbe testifies at 1949 trial. (This is the first time I’ve seen a photo of Tamar’s mother from that time period.) The caption above reads: “Beautiful 22-year-old Barbara Sherman, above, denies 14-year-old Tamar Hodel’s charges of Hollywood sex orgy, but admits intimacy…
Read MoreAuthor/UCLA Professor Lawrence Grobel "The Mozart of Celebrity Interviewers" Speaks and Shares Taped Interviews at South Pasadena Library
September 1, 2018 Los Angeles, California From Grobel’s book on “The Hustons” which author James Michener called “A Masterpiece” photo showing Walter Huston greeting his son John and his newly married first wife, Dorothy Huston circa 1926. (My mother, Dorothy would remain…
Read More1949-50 Black Dahlia Witness Lillian Lenorak Hamilton Slain in Unrelated 1959 Palm Springs Murder –Her Killer Tord O. Zeppenfield Arrested
August 18, 2018 Los Angeles, California November 12, 1959 UPI Photo Those familiar with my investigation will recognize the name Lillian Lenorak Hamilton, who played a key role as a defense witness in both Dr. George Hodel’s 1949 Incest Trial and again in the January 1950 Abortion trial of Dr. Francis Ballard and his “assistant” Charles…
Read More1942 L.A. Times Article on Dr. George Hill Hodel Giving WWII Health Lecture at LAPD Police Academy to 200 Law Enforcement Officers
August 12, 2018 Los Angeles, California July 10, 1942 LAPD Police Academy Dr. George Hodel (at lectern) then Head of the L.A. County Social Hygiene Department The original 1942 article (left) reads as follows: ARMY HEALTH PERIL FOUGHT F.B.I and Southland Police Aid in Conference on Social Disease In the last war casualties among…
Read MoreNoirCon Journal "Retreats From Oblivion" Features Author's True Crime Short Story "The Snake and Bake Murder"
July 28, 2018 Los Angeles, California Steve Hodel and Lou Boxer NoirCon 2014 Author presenting PowerPoint Talk to NoirCon attendees. In 2014 I was privileged to be invited to speak at the NoirCon Conference in Philadelphia, PA. (See original post HERE.) A few months back Lou Boxer, the organizer…
Read MoreDr. George Hill Hodel INRA-ASIA Becomes "Leading Market Research Authority" in Asia and the Far East –1966 GHH Sketch Compared to Zodiac Composites
July 25, 2018 Los Angeles, California Sketch of GHH in preface to 1966 publication, “The New Far East: Seven Nations of Asia” “These surveys were directed in their entirety by Dr. George Hill Hodel. Dr. Hodel is an American social scientist and psychiatrist who is internationally known for his contributions in the field of attitude…
Read MoreSecond Thirty-Year-Old Cold Case Solved Through Use of Civilian DNA Database
May 19, 2018 Los Angeles, California Following just three weeks after the Sacramento arrest of Golden State Killer/Rapist Joseph DeAngelo another thirty-year-old cold case has been solved by the use of civilian DNA databanks. See full story by Seattle Times reporter, Sara Jean Green published May 18, 2018. …
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