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Child Musical Prodigy George Hodel Performs at LA Egan/Little Theater in 1914 at age 6–DTLA Map Showing Locations He Practiced Music, Medicine and Murder
October 9, 2017 Los Angeles, California “George Hodel only 6 years old, proved one of the favorites of the recital. He is, small, but possessed of phenomenal talent as a pianist.” Los Angeles Daily Times…
Read MoreFauna Hodel Dies at age 66-May She Rest In Peace
September 30, 2017 Los Angeles, California Fauna Hodel August 1, 1951 – September 30, 2017 I just received this posting a few hours ago, announcing the death of my niece, Fauna Hodel, who passed away at her home under hospice care at age 66. Fauna had been fighting cancer for over a year, and it…
Read MoreInternational Assn of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts 5-Day Conference Opens with Keynote Speaker "Black Dahlia 2017" Presentation- LASD, LAPD and San Diego Sheriffs Host Event
September 26, 2017 Redondo Beach, California Steve Hodel invited as Keynote speaker to open the conference with “Black Dahlia and LA Lone Woman Murders” PowerPoint presentation to international blood pattern experts. Criminalists attended annual IABPA conference in Redondo Beach, California from as far away as Australia, Philippines, and Europe. In February 2017, I…
Read MoreThe Black Dahlia Leslie Dillon/Dr. Paul De River Fiasco– A Week of LAPD Fubar* (Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition)
September 24, 2017 Los Angeles, California According to a few inquiries from my readers, I am informed that a new Black Dahlia book reportedly to be published on October 10, 2017 (George Hodel’s Birthday) is claiming “a new solution to the Black Dahlia Murder.” The U.K. press has indicated that a British author is claiming…
Read MoreGeorge Hodel Funeral Instructions Inspired/Plagiarized from His Hero, the Marquis de Sade: Hodel Ashes Cast at Sea on Sade's Birthday, 2, June 1999- A Burial Day Letter to June
September 19, 2017 Los Angeles, California “Finally, I absolutely forbid that my body be opened upon any pretext whatsoever. I would have it laid to rest, without ceremony of any kind.” Marquis de Sade “I do not wish to have funeral services of any kind. There is to be no meeting or speeches or music…
Read MoreGovernor of Hawaii Provides 1953 Letter of Recommendation Requesting Asian/Far East Countries Assist Psychiatrist/Serial Killer Dr. George Hill Hodel in His Mental Illness Crimes Studies
September 1, 2017 Los Angeles, California Once again, place the following in your “YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP” file. The below letter was written in September 1953 by then Hawaiian Territorial Governor, Samuel Wilder King. It is a letter of introduction and recommendation of Hawaiin based psychiatrist, Dr. George Hill Hodel. The “To Whom It May Concern”…
Read MoreGeorge and Steve Hodel: Father and Son Fifty Years Later
August 25, 2017 Los Angeles, California 1943 1994 The photo on left was taken on my second birthday…
Read MoreMore George Hodel Name Games: The Morel of the Story
August 14, 2017 Los Angeles In the 1925 Los Angeles Evening Herald article, “The Clouded Past of a Poet” written by Ted Le Berthon, we recall that George Hodel did not want the Drama Critic to use his real last name, and provided him with the pseudonym, “George Morel.” Earlier, in January of that…
Read MoreRemembering KPFK's Mike Hodel – Gone But Not Forgotten
July 12, 2017 Los Angeles Mike Hodel ( July 12, 1939- May 6, 1986) Mike Hodel would have been 78 today. My older brother Michael died of lung cancer in 1986, at the relatively young age of- 46. (His early death was the catalyst for my decision to retire from LAPD and “move on.”) Mike…
Read MoreThe xx- I Dare You (Official Music Video) Filmed at the Sowden/Hodel 1947 Black Dahlia Crime Scene
June 29, 2017 Los Angeles, California The British Rock band, The xx just released and posted a new music video, “I Dare You” which they describe as their “Love Letter to Los Angeles.” Posted six hours ago on YouTube, it already shows 63,000 views. We are so happy to share our new video for ‘I Dare…
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