Famed Surrealist Artist/Photographer Edmund Teske Personal Friend to George Hodel and Man Ray and His Direct Knowledge of the Sowden/Hodel Residence; “Women were tortured for sport there. Murders happened there. It’s an Evil Place.”

By Steve Hodel | April 11, 2025 |

April 11, 2025 (Revised/Updated from October 16, 2023) Birch Bay, Washington One of George Hodel’s friends who was “in the know” (and apparently by his own words much more than that?) was surrealist photographer EDMUND TESKE. (His artwork is now prominently displayed in the Getty Museum)  Strange that Edmund Teske and my paths never crossed…

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CHAOS: The Manson Murders a Documentary by Academy AwardDirector Errol Morris Premiered on Netflix- Featured Prosecutor Steve Kay Interviews

By Steve Hodel | March 8, 2025 |

March 8, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Last night I watched the Netflix premiere of Academy Award Winning Director Errol Morris’ new film on Charles Manson called CHAOS: The Manson Murders.  It was great to see prosecutor Steve Kay who was featured prominently in the documentary. Truth be known, then DDA Stephen Kay did all the…

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Mattie “Madi” Comfort Art Exhibit Opens Feb22, 2025-July 1, 2025 at Whittier Museum-Film Actress, Jazz Singer, Artist, Prime Witness in 1947 Black Dahlia Murder

By Steve Hodel | February 24, 2025 |

January 24, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington WHITTIER MUSEUM ART EXHIBITION “The Life and Art of Madi Comfort” -Jazz Singer, Model, Painter- Feb 22-July 1, 2025 THE WHITTIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM 6755 Newlin Avenue, Whittier, California 90601 Email: info@whittiermuseum.org Website: www.whittiermuseum.org Office Hours: Tues-Fri. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Madi Comfort (1923-2003) aside from being a film…

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Duncan Hill Hodel – A 97-Year-Follow-Up Identifying His Possible Actual Biological Father-Another Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma

By Steve Hodel | February 23, 2025 |

February 23, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Four years ago I posted the following blog update revealing my DNA findings on the allegation raised (during a heated argument when we were married)  by my ex-wife, KIYO that “Your not George Hodel’s son, your father was film director, Rowland Brown.” (See 2021 full blog HERE.) Bottom line…

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The Noirest of the Noir: Actress Carol Foreman Makes Dahlia Murder Calendar For January 1947 and Becomes Post Murder Tenant at Dahlia Hodel Murder House

By Steve Hodel | February 3, 2025 |

February 3, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington The graphic says it all.    Well, not quite all. A real life anecdote: In 1948 or 49, actor Tim Holt was courting/dating Carol Foreman who was living/renting a room at our home.  My younger brother Kelvin, who would have been six or seven years old, had a crush…

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Correcting the Record: Dr. George Hodel’s Posing of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short’s Body on Degnan Ave as a Taunt and Crime Signature

By Steve Hodel | January 24, 2025 |

January 23, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Over the past many years, I have presented how and why the posing of Elizabeth Short’s body on the vacant lot was another of Dr. George Hodel’s so-called “clews”. A subtle taunt and reference to his one year earlier, 1946 kidnap/murder and surgical bisection (also a “hemicorporectomy”) of little…

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78th Anniversary of the Murder of Elizabeth Short-Black Dahlia Avenger IV: The Murder Trial of Dr. George Hill Hodel as Presented by “The Quick and the Dead.”

By Steve Hodel | January 14, 2025 |

January 14, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington First a word to my fellow Angelenos who are suffering through the worst fires in our city’s 244-year history. My thoughts are with all of you during this ongoing horrific disaster which is unlike anything that has come before us. I was born and raised in Los Angeles and…

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