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 In 1977, a San Mateo newspaper originally suggested a possible link of the Pamela Lambson murder to three additional Bay Area murder victims: Alecia Perez, 25, Roxeme Rogasch, 18, and a “Jane Doe” victim found on Jan. 1, 1977 Can DNA link Rodney James Alcala  to these unsolved Cold Cases? Here is the original 1977 article describing the discovery…

 I will be presenting a talk (PowerPoint with Q&A) at the Altadena Public Library which will provide an overview of my original BLACK DAHLIA and L.A. LONE WOMAN MURDERS investigation along with new evidence and linkage- discovered post-publication, between 2003-2011.    DATE:-  Monday, March 14, 2011 7pm LOCATION- Altadena Public Library – 600 E. Mariposa St., Altadena CA 91001  …

This is an update to my original FAQ 1.38 (2005) wherein I offered strong suppoting documentation that Elizabeth Short was in fact in Los Angeles during the summer months of 1944. Despite several self-professed “Dahlia experts” claims to the contrary,here is the evidence: In my original 2003 publication of BDA I presented the following 1947 article where…

Sunday, February 13, 2011Los Angeles, California In BDA I write that some of my fondest childhood  memories from the late 1940s  were  playing with my brothers in Fern Dell Park just up the street from our Franklin House, where we hunted for crawdads and frogs or played Cowboys and Indians. High on that same list was- Hollywood’s  Hitching Post Theatre, where my brothers and…

      L.A. Confidential (1997) Director Curtis Hansen and writer, Brian Hegeland’s, L.A. Confidential (one of my all-time favorite films about Los Angeles) was released just two-years before my father’s death in 1999. At that time I was blissfully unaware that I was about to be pulled into my own 1940s L.A. Rabbit Hole,…

  February 3, 2011 DNA ESTABLISHES HIS INNOCENCE. “75% of all wrongful convictions are based on witness misidentifications.” See Innocence Project Summary below:   Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to view it online. February 3, 2011 266 EXONERATED   BREAKING NEWS Prosecutors Join Innocence Project in Calls for Virginia Man’s Exoneration The Innocence Project…

I have received a number of e-mails requesting I post the January 9, 2011 “Champions of Justice” radio interview I did with attorneys Tom Girardi and Howard Miller. (Tom was Erin Brockovich’s civil attorney on the PG&E suit and Howard is the 2010 past-president of the California State Bar Association.) The interview was conducted one-week prior…

It will be forty years ago, this fall, that  I flew to New Hampshire, arrested and extradited Rodney Alcala back to Los Angeles to answer charges for the rape and attempted murder of 8-year-old, Tali Shapiro.   What I and the public were unaware of then, was that earlier that same year (1971) Alcala while living under the alias…

New DNA Evidence Potentially Opens Door to Solving of 1940s & 1960s Serial Killings   January 15, 2011 Los Angeles, California 6:45 a.m.   Today is the 64th anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth Short.  As I post this announcement I cannot help but reflect on the irony and the horrific fact that her sadistic killer had just…