Buster and the Black Dahlia: The Scent of Death-Soil at Sowden/Hodel House Positive for Human Remains-Confirm 1950 DA Investigators Report and Suspicions

January 20, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington In 1950 the original DA investigators suspected that Dr. George Hill Hodel may have buried victims’ bodies in the basement of the Sowden/Franklin House, where my investigation showed the original crime and surgical bisection occurred in 1947.  We know this from a police report I found in the secret…

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Dr. Charles Wesley Hill-Next Door Neighbor to the 1947 Black Dahlia Crime Scene and Acquaintance of Dr. George Hodel, LA’s Most Prolific Serial Killer

January 13, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington In my BDA series of books, I think I only mentioned our neighbor, “Dr. Hill” twice, in passing. The first was that we three boys would play next door with his children on rare occasions and the second was in quoting mom and dad’s acquaintance, Joe Barrett (our Franklin…

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A Timeline of Horror: The Reconstruction of the Abduction and Torture Murder of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short on January 14-15, 1947

January 10, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Five days from today, January 15, 2024, marks the 77th anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth Short. Based on my now twenty-five-year investigation into that 1947 kidnap-torture-murder of twenty-four-year-old victim Elizabeth Short, known to the world as “The Black Dahlia” I here present the following “Timeline of Horror.”  (This…

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Homicide Investigations – From Fact to Theory -Black Dahlia Murder to Jeanne French Lipstick Murder to Chicago Red Lipstick Murders to Manila Jigsaw Murder to Zodiac

January 2, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Sherlock Holmes makes the above elementary observation in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and this is the exact point that I would like to make this morning as we begin our New Year 2024. Some critics of my now twenty-four-year investigations have dismissed them out-of-hand once they learned or…

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Correction to today’s article in The Messenger, “Unsolved Hollywood Mystery: The 1949 Disappearance of an Aspiring Actress”

December 30, 2024 Birch Bay, Washington Just read the below, well-written article in The Messernger by Eboni Boykin-Patterson : “Unsolved Hollywood Mystery: The 1949 Disappearance of an Aspiring Actress” (December 30, 2023). I want to make corrections to references attributed to me in the below article just posted on The Messenger today.  1) Our former…

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Away in a manger: MERRY CHRISTMAS 2023 from author Steve Hodel

December 25, 2023 Birch Bay, Washington Christmas Day Merry Christmas 2023 Had to share this “Away in a Manger” card with all of you this Christmas morning. Sent to me by my good friend of close to fifty years, Jodi Rose from Downunder in Sydney, Australia. Have to admit it is off the cuteness chart…

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