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The 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…
Read MoreFormer South Pasadena High School Spelling Champion George Hodel Feigns Illiteracy as Part of his Black Dahlia Avenger, Lipstick, Zodiac Crime Signatures
June 21, 2017 Los Angeles, California George Hodel 1923 South Pasadena Year Book Los Angeles Daily Times June 5, 1923 In the early 1920s teenager, George Hodel attained the highest Public School test scores of any student in the State. Based on those results he became part of one of the most famous…
Read MoreLAPD Chief Thad Brown, The Black Dahlia, and "Thoughtprints"- Modus Operandi (M.O.) in the 21st Century
June 8, 2017 Los Angeles, California Thoughtprint: The motive within a thought. The ridges, loops, and whorls of the mind, which like the “points” found in a fingerprint, contain the potential to link an individual to a specific time, place, crime, or victim. …
Read MoreDr. George Hill Hodel: A New Life and a New Wife in the Territory: Hawaii 1950-1953
June 4, 2017 Los Angeles, California George Hodel, immediately after his October 6, 1949 arrest for Incest and Child Molestation retained nationally renowned criminal defense attorneys Jerry “Get Me” Giesler and his partner, Robert Neeb to represent him. GHH secured their services by signing over his Sowden House as a $10,000 retainer. ($102,000 in today’s…
Read MoreNew Black Dahlia Podcast Video Interview with Dash Finley Dark Times
May 16, 2017 Los Angeles, California Below is a link to a recent Black Dahlia interview I did with Dash Finley of Dark Times: Unsolved Horrors and Mysteries, who hosts@supernewslive. The video runs about one hour. Excellent questions and presentation by Dash, and the rest of the crew at @MoviePilot. https://www.facebook.com/SuperNewsLive/videos/1299466216769181/
Read MoreOn True Crime Writing and the Black Dahlia Murder: LAPD Homicide Detective III Steve Hodel (ret.)
April 30, 2017 Los Angeles, California Here’s a short four-minute clip from an interview I did a few years back on the responsibilities of being a True Crime writer. LAPD Det. III Steve Hodel (ret.) on True Crime Writing Link HERE.
Read MoreBlack Dahlia Myth Begins As A "Laugh Line" in 1950 Film Noir Classic "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)
April 15, 2017 Los Angeles, California Just two years after the horrific surgical torture murder of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short occurred in Los Angeles mention of the crime was used as a “laugh line” in one of Hollywood’s greatest film noir classic’s-SUNSET BLVD (1950). Incredibly, simultaneous to the actual shooting of the film, LAPD and…
Read MoreRare WWII VJ Day Film Footage Believed To Be Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short on Hollywood Blvd
April 6, 2017 Los Angeles, California In recent weeks I have received numerous inquiries asking if the film footage that aired back in 2003 on Dateline and again in 2005 on 48 Hours CBS “Black Dahlia Confidential” (an hour show covering my investigation) was in fact that of the victim, Elizabeth Short? YouTube Elizabeth Short VJ Day…
Read More38th Anniversary of Veteran Actor Charles Wagenheim Hollywood Murder: A Bizarre "Zodiac" Connection That Spanned 27 Years
March 31, 2017 Los Angeles This month marks the 38th anniversary of the murder of veteran actor, Charles Wagenheim, who was beaten to death in his Hollywood apartment on March 6, 1979. Here is the “fact stranger than fiction” Wagenheim story that begins in 1952 and…
Read MoreUsing 21st Century Geographic Profiling Software To Investigate the Black Dahlia and Other 1940s "LA Lone Woman Murders"
March 20, 2017 Los Angeles, California GEOGRAPHIC PROFILING “In conclusion, Dragnet (Geographic profiling software) successfully identified both the Hodel residence and the Hodel medical practice as being in areas considered highest probability for the base of the killer(s). Dr. Evan R. Harrington Professor of Psychology John Jay College of Criminal Justice August 2003 …
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