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1947 “Heartaches” First Big Screen Film (PRC Pictures) To Reference Black Dahlia Murder Just Five Months After Crime Occurred
December 8, 2019 Los Angeles I recently received this “heads up” email from an astute reader, “Bill S.” Here’s an oddity, Steve: A long-forgotten 1947 PRC murder mystery, “Heartaches” from 1947. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64CkQUryMc Take a look beginning at around 13:38 in. Is this the first movie reference to the…
Read MoreAuthor Ray Bradbury and a Hodel Quartet of Synchronicities- 1948-1953-1982-2004
December 6, 2019 Los Angeles, California Mike Hodel and Ray Bradbury on “Hour 25 SFTV” (1982) photo by Steve Moore Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related. Bradbury Event No.…
Read MoreA Little Levity: GuthrieGate and Author’s LAPD Pre Employment Mug Shot
November 20, 2019 Los Angeles, California Time for a little levity. Levity No. 1 First, as some readers may know, the great American folk singer/songwriter, Woody Guthrie was (like many other celebrities of his day) whispered to be, “a suspect in the Black Dahlia Murder.” The “Guthrie investigation” lasted about ten minutes. Just about as…
Read MoreProfessor Roland Giolli Dies At 85: Respected Neurobiologist Provided Key Information Corroborating LAPD Chief Parker’s Knowledge That Dr. George Hodel Was The Black Dahlia Killer
November 9, 2019 Los Angeles, California Roland Andrew Giolli PhD 1934-2019 Professor Roland Giolli at his microscope (Photo courtesy of and taken by his son, Mark) This morning I received an email notification from Mark Giolli, the son of Professor Roland Giolli, informing me that his father passed away some five months ago. Sad news.…
Read MoreFirst “Black Dahlia Murder” Reference Found in Big Screen Film Release of “Heartaches” (1947) Just Five Months After Crime Occurred
November 7, 2019 Los Angeles, California Thanks to the “heads up” from Bill S. in the below comment section. I had always thought that the 1950 classic film “Sunset Boulevard” reference to the Dahlia murder was the first on the Big Screen, but NOT SO. As Bill S. points out, here is a much earlier…
Read MoreRebekah Sebastian True Crime Expert Podcast: DIE ALOGUE with Author Steve Hodel – Black Dahlia 2019 Airs November 6th
November 5, 2019 Los Angeles, California Rebekah Sebastian Intro (1 min.) Die Alogue Link
Read MoreLAPD’s Sgt. Joe “Just The Facts” Friday of Dragnet Fame (Actor Jack Webb) Provides Second Account Corroborating That Black Dahlia Killer was Dr. George Hill Hodel
October 31, 2019 (Halloween) Los Angeles, California Actor Jack Webb in the role of LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday Click on graphic for Dragnet Introduction (1 minute) This is the city. Los Angeles, California. Population four million. It was a brisk Holloween Eve and I was working the night watch out of my home office when…
Read More“Professor X” Discovers a Seventy-Year-Old Major “Thoughtprint”- Man Ray 1948 Drawing Depicts A Couple Witnessing a Nude Woman Being Sexually Assaulted in the Courtyard of Dr. George Hodel’s Sowden/Franklin Residence (1947 Black Dahlia Crime Scene)
October 22, 2019 Los Angeles, California BACKGROUND: 1948 Gift from Man Ray to Dr. George Hodel Man Ray sculpture, “Objet de mon affection- L’oculiste” 13 ¼ x 8 x1 ½” created in 1944 and gifted to his good friend Dr. George Hill Hodel in 1948 just after the publication of Alphabet For Adults (Copley Galleries,…
Read MoreAuthor Interview with Journalist Zack Kopp-“George Hodel’s Exquisite Corpse(s): Beyond The Black Dahlia”: Setting The Record Straight On Miniseries, “I Am The Night”
October 19, 2019 Los Angeles, California GEORGE HODEL’S EXQUISITE CORPSE(S): BEYOND THE BLACK DAHLIA Here is a link to a just-posted interview I did with journalist Zack Kopp which deals with my overall investigations and setting the record straight regarding the fictional miniseries, I Am the Night. Here is the lead to Zack’s interview: Former…
Read MoreSurrealist Artist William Copley’s New “Hat Trick” – A Third Drawing and Clue to Black Dahlia Whodunit?
October 10, 2019 Los Angeles, California Today would be Dr. George Hill Hodel’s 112th Birthday “There are no coincidences.” Detective III Harry Bosch LAPD Hollywood Homicide…
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