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BLACK DAHLIA / ZODIAC — SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (UPDATED)-A documented timeline of prior publications and evidentiary patterns
April 26, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington With renewed national media attention revisiting the question of whether the Black Dahlia and Zodiac cases may be linked to a single offender, I am updating and reposting my earlier work to clarify the historical record. The core connections being discussed today—that the Black Dahlia and Zodiac cases may…
Read MoreDorothy Hodel: Poems, a Letter, Last Will and Testament
April 16, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington (For those who missed it, my previous post on Dorothy, A Poem to an Unborn Child, can be found HERE.) Several readers have asked for more about my mother, Dorothy. What follows are a few pieces found among her papers—written at different times in her life. Taken together, they…
Read MoreA Poem “To an Unborn Child” by Dorothy Huston Hodel
April 15, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington Today would have been my mother, Dorothy Huston Hodel’s 120th birthday. My mother, Dorothy—whom my father called “Dorero”—wrote this poem in July 1977, just weeks before the birth of my first son, Michael. I found it later among her personal papers after she passed. It was written for him.…
Read MoreBLACK DAHLIA–ZODIAC: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
April 12, 2026Birch Bay, Washington In recent weeks there has been renewed public discussion, including work associated with the Connelly team, suggesting that the Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings may have been committed by the same offender. That idea is not new—and it is not recent. It is one I first placed into…
Read MoreRemembering Murray Rose: Love and Mutual Recognition
April 11,2026 Birch Bay, Washington The Dating Game crossed my life three times, and each one took a different turn. The first was through my friend Murray Rose, the Australian Olympic swimming champion. Before I met him in Los Angeles in 1966, Murray had appeared as the celebrity bachelor on The Dating Game. He…
Read MoreEast Meets West — A Case, A Gift, A Turning Point
March 31, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington Front of artwork Shippo enamel “Red Fuji,” Kyoto technique. Gifted in Tokyo, April 1999. In April 1999, I returned from Japan after working as a defense investigator on a high-profile case involving a Japanese national accused of acting as the gunman in a Los Angeles murder. He spent four…
Read MoreBlack Dahlia-Revisiting Author/Journalist Zack Kopp’s 2019 Article — “George Hodel’s Exquisite Corpse(s): Beyond the Black Dahlia”
March 28, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington No Kings Day U.S.A. In 2019, writer Zack Kopp published an article examining my investigation into the Black Dahlia murder, along with possible connections to surrealism and the Los Angeles art world. Zack has been a thoughtful and supportive voice over the years, and his work approaches the…
Read MoreZ13 Reality Check: The “Marvin Margolis (aka Marvin Merrill)” Claim Examined
February 23, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington Every few years, someone claims to have cracked the Zodiac’s 13-symbol “My name is…” cipher. The latest headline-maker says it spells MARVIN MERRILL — reportedly an alias used by Marvin Margolis. The name itself is unfamiliar to many readers, which makes it especially important to examine whether the cipher…
Read MoreModern Forensic Analysis Identifies “Jane Doe” in Dr. George Hodel Album as Elizabeth Short, the “Black Dahlia”
February 19, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington Modern Forensic Analysis Identifies “Jane Doe” in Dr. George Hodel Album as Elizabeth Short, the “Black Dahlia” “Updated Forensic facial analysis indicates a 97–99% probability that this image from Dr. George Hodel’s private album depicts Elizabeth Short, the ‘Black Dahlia.” As Within, So Without: Man Ray,…
Read MoreSetting the Record Straight: Black Dahlia, Zodiac and the Historical Timeline
February 6, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington A brief clarification of the Dahlia–Zodiac linkage, LAPD investigative findings, and forthcoming evidence inAs Within So Without. Over the past few months there’s been a surge of media attention around a new claim that the Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings were committed by the same person. Much…
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