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Just when I thought it was finally OK to file away the LADA Black Dahlia-Hodel Surveillance Files, to coin a outdated an much overused term- “THE PLOT THICKENS” In a recent re-reading of some of the transcribed pages from the LAPD/DA tape-recorded surveillance, I noted the mention of a name that seemed familiar, but a couldn’t…

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Finally Common Sense Rules-  Man Freed After Serving 8th year of his 25 to Life Sentence for attempting to steal some food from a L.A. Church. “This is justice long overdue.”                                          Los Angeles DA Steve Cooley See AP article below:   LA Judge Frees Thief Who Got 25 Yrs On 3rd Strike by The Associated Press…

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  DADAISM … based on the principles of deliberate irrationality, anarchy, and cynicism and the rejection of laws of beauty and social organization… Randomness was a key element to all things DADA. Dada Chance-Randomness- See clip Tristan Tsara: To Make A Dadaist Poem In my opinion, George Hodel, as a practicing Dadaist and serial killer,…

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  RECENT SUCCESS OF LAPD/DOJ TEAMWORK IN COMPUTER LINKING OF DNA MAY HOLD PROMISE IN SOLVING OF ZODIAC COLD CASE KILLINGS? Do these three (3) Untested Southern California Evidence Letters Contain Zodiac’s DNA?   Southern Calif Zodiac Letters LAPD and Riverside police departments hold three separate letters believed written by ZODIAC and mailed to the press and police in Southern California.  Each of…

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“CONDEMNED BEFORE HIS TRIAL–AMERICA CALLS THIS JUSTICE”                                London Sunday Pictorial, 1946                   William Heirens, today, age 81, is serving his 64th year in prison.   Excerpt from the book, YOUR NEWSPAPER: Blueprint For A Better Press (The MacMillan Co. NY, 1947) pg. 49: “The Tribune trying to live up to the slogan of being “the…

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 MICHAEL PAUL HODEL July 12, 1939 – May 6, 1986   Today would have been brother Mike’s 71st birthday.  He was a man of and for The People. For the underdog, the little guy. He never hesitated to speak out against injustice. He is greatly missed. GOOD NIGHT MIKE! Here are some brief memories from his short…

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  DOJ CRIME LAB CRIMINALISTS LINKED SON’S DNA TO FATHER USING STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY    Criminalists with the state Justice Department who matched the suspect’s DNA to his son are, from left, Linton VonBeroldingen, Steven Myers, Jim Wiegand, Gary Sims, Matt Piucci, Ken Konzak and Bureau Chief Jill Spriggs at the DNA lab in Richmond. (Genaro…

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LAPD ALLEGES SON’S DNA LINKS FATHER  TO 11 LA MURDERS OVER PAST THREE DECADES- According to authorities, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. , a former LAPD mechanic and city trash collector has been linked to the murders of 10 woman and one man over past twenty-five year period.  Investigators remove items from home of Lonnie David Franklin Jr.(Gary Friedman, LA…

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I really know very little about my cousin, Marion Hodel. Perhaps that is why to this day, he remains in my mind, as a bit of a mystery.  A shadowy family figure. I only met Marion on perhaps three or four occasions, and each time was while I was “playing” and he was working.  Cousin Marion was the Paymaster at all…

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Career law-enforcement investigator, Jack Egger was one of the last witnesses to see Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short alive. In 2003 Egger, then Chief Investigator for Warner Bros. Studio,  positively identified a photograph of Dr. George Hill Hodel as being the man who was with Elizabeth Short and escorted her to a CBS radio show in Hollywood, just days before…

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