FAQ
This section contains my additional follow-up investigation from 2003-2009 related to the Black Dahlia Avenger and LA Lone Woman Murders. Some of this information is included in the two updated chapters of BDA found in the HarperCollins July 2006 edition. However, much of this information is new since 2006 and can be found only in these FAQs. For those who want a complete updating of all information I would recommend you simply read the FAQs from 1-82 in order and at your leisure. (They now total over 300 pages with dozens of photographs and charts.)
There are three ways to use the FAQs. First, you can read them sequentially–click here for a list of all FAQs in PDF format. Second, you can click on the categories below for related subjects. Third, you can simply scroll down to see the entire list of categories and topics. The individual topics are linked to documents in PDF format. For example, in the “Elizabeth Short” category, you’ll see a topic called “Facial Photos,” followed by “6.2“. That means the topic is addressed in the second question of FAQ#6–just click the link 6.2 to read the associated PDF file. Also, while all of the entries were written after the publication of Black Dahlia Avenger, entries particularly critical to the post-publication investigation are highlighted in red.
CATEGORIES
- Elizabeth Short
- George Hodel
- Steve Hodel
- Dorothy Hodel
- Tamar Hodel
- Sowden/”Franklin
House” - Man Ray—Surrealism Connections
- Kiyo Hodel
- Fred Sexton
- “Maganda Photo”
- James Ellroy
- LAPD
- District Attorney/Hodel-Dahlia Files/Bugging
- Forensics
- Handwriting
- Thoughtprints
- Miscellaneous
- BDA-Related Names
COMPLETE FAQ INDEX
| Elizabeth Short | |
| Not pregnant | 1.1 |
| Infantile vagina myth | 1.3 |
| Crime photos | 1.5 |
| Photos | 1.6 |
| Photos compared | 1.16 |
| Condition of body | 1.2 |
| Hollywood residence | 1.25 |
| Handwriting | 1.28 |
| TV show | 1.32 |
| Magazine article | 1.37 |
| In Los Angeles | 1.38 |
| Biltmore Hotel | 1.39 |
| Facial photos | 6.2 |
| More facial photos | 6.3 |
| As Myth | 7.1 |
| Burn Marks | 7.2 |
“Unidentified Man” |
10.1 |
| “Missing Week” Myth | 12.1 |
| Burial | 21.1 |
| Washington Bl. Hotel | 23.1 |
| Telegram 1944 | 26.3 |
| Burn Marks | 27.4 |
| Franklin House | 37.1 |
| EBay photos | 37.2 |
| GHH photos | 39.3 |
| Telegram | 40.1 |
| Myths | 40.2 |
| Missing Week | 46.1 |
| Discovery of body | 51.1 |
| VJ Day Hollywood | 53.1 |
| Wit. Alex Constance | 54.1 |
| VJ Day w/friends | 56.2 |
| At Franklin House | 62.1 |
| Life Magazine 1947 | 63.1 |
| No Middle Name “Ann” | 70.1 |
| Fiancée Matt Gordon | 70.3 |
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| George Hodel | |
| Nude photo | 1.34 |
| LAPD connections | 1.36 |
| “Gloria” photo | 14.1 |
| GHH HW 48-HRS | 16.1 |
| As surgeon | 17.2, 36.1 |
| Black sedan | 31.2 |
| Abortionist | 34.1 |
| Tax fraud | 41.1 |
| Fogg Museum photo | 45.1 |
| GHH parents | 67.1 |
| Mrs. X Letters | 69.1 |
| Serial crimes | 70.2 |
| Chinatown offices | 71.2 |
| What’s in a name? | 72.1 |
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| Steve Hodel | |
| Career | 1.2 |
| BDA | 1.4 |
| BDA | 1.7 |
| Pompidou Centre | 5.4 |
| Book II | 6.4 |
| BDA Foreign pub. | 7.5 |
| BDA audio book | 7.6 |
| CNN News AC-360 | 15.1 |
| Author elim of photo | 20.1 |
| Twin brother John | 65.1 |
| Gregory Peck meet | 66.1 |
| Grandparents bio | 67.1 |
| Miura/Okubo invest | 68.1 |
| Television shows | 71.3 |
| CRIME Book interview | 73.1 |
| Motive for writing? | 74.1 |
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| Dorothy Hodel | |
| Bio on Dorothy | 2.1 |
| Bros., Mike/Kelvin | 2.4 |
| John Huston | 5.1 |
| Greta Nissen | 5.1 |
| Dudley Murphy | 5.2 |
| Screenwriting | 35.1 |
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| Tamar Hodel | |
| Deborah/GHH | 1.19 |
| BDA Investigation | 1.22 |
| BDA Investigation | 1.23 |
| “Elizabeth” Doll | 1.24 |
| Incest Trial | 1.29 |
| Trial | 26.2 |
| Vanity Fair Mag. 2007 | 64.1 |
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| Sowden/”Franklin House” |
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| Franklin House | 1.33 |
| Original photos | 1.44 |
| As crime scene | 2.2 |
| As film location | 6.1 |
| Distances | 11.2 |
| Family photos | 24.1 |
| In Commercial | 25.2 |
| Spider Woman | 26.1 |
| Crime scene | 37.1 |
| Valentine House | 39.1 |
| Original house photos | 50.1 |
| As crime scene | 59.2 |
| Elizabeth Short visit? | 62.1 |
| Cement Bags | 75.1 |
| Fertilizer Bags | 76.1 |
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| Man Ray—Surrealism Connections | |
| Man Ray | 1.12 |
| Minotaur | 1.13 |
| Misogyny | 1.27 |
| Man Ray/G. Hodel | 18.1 |
| Exquisite Corpse Book | 19.1 |
| Man Ray | 27.1 |
| Henry Miller/Man Ray | 29.2 |
| Hodel/Man Ray | 35.3 |
| Did Man Ray know? | 38.1 |
| Henry Miller friend | 38.2 |
| GHH on transcripts | 44.1 |
| Harvard Fogg museum | 45.1 |
| Minotaur/Lovers | 58.1 |
| Man Ray/G. Hodel | 59.1 |
| Given/ART-Crime book | 62.2 |
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| Kiyo Hodel | |
| Bio | 3.2 |
| Astrologer | 52.1 |
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| Fred Sexton | |
| BIO/ Timeline | 47.1 |
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“Maganda Photo” |
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| GHH photo elimination | 20.1 |
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| James Ellroy | |
| Ellroy BDA | 1.14 |
| Black Dahlia film | 1.41 |
| BDA theory | 6.6 |
| DePalma film | 22.1 |
| Re. Fred Sexton | 43.1 |
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| LAPD | |
| Serial killings | 1.8 |
| Credibility problem | 1.18 |
| Other investigations | 1.21 |
| G. Hodel as killer | 1.3 |
| Standalone crime | 1.35 |
| Det. Russ Kuster | 2.5 |
| Det. Thad Brown | 3.1 |
| Russ Kuster | 3.4 |
| Serial Killings | 5.3 |
| Dahliagate | 8.1 |
| Russ Kuster photo | 9.1 |
| Det. Brian Carr interv. | 24.2 |
| Missing Evidence | 28.2 |
| BDA “Solved” | 32.1 |
| Brian Carr –re.surgeon | 36.1 |
| Cmdr. Tatreau obit | 40.3 |
| LASO Cmdr. Tom Vetter | 60.1 |
| LAPD “Case Solved” |
61.1 |
| Miura/Okubo invest. | 68.1 |
| Louise Springer Murder | 77.1 |
| Fingerprints | 2009 |
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| District Attorney/Hodel-Dahlia Files/Bugging | |
| Hodel transcripts | 1.11 |
| G. Hodel/Eliz Short | 1.31 |
| Hodel as suspect | 2.3 |
| Other investigations | 4.2 |
| Mattie Comfort | 4.3 |
| Officer Mary Unkefer | 5.5 |
| Lenorak/Unkefer | 11.1 |
| Lt. Jemison/Hodel | 30.1 |
| Bugging transcripts | 33.1 |
| Hodel-Abortions | 34.1 |
| Walter Morgan Bio | 57.1 |
| Hodel transcripts | 61.1 |
| DA transcripts | 80.1 |
| DA Timeline bugging | 81.1 |
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| Forensics | |
| Burn Marks on body | 7.2 |
| Photos | 17.1 |
| Military “Franking” | 24.3 |
| Bags at crime-scene | 27.3 |
| Burn Marks | 27.4 |
| Surgeon killer | 56.1 |
| Cement Bags at scene | 75.1 |
| Bandini fertilizer bags | 76.1 |
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| Handwriting | |
| CBS expert | 1.15 |
| CBS expert (b) | 16.1 |
| Notes | 28.1 |
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| Thoughtprints | |
| Definition | 1.1 |
| Cold Case textbook | 13.1 |
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| Miscellaneous | |
| Suspect’s car at scene | 1.9 |
| Author Mary Pacios | 1.17 |
| Red Lipstick shoe size | 1.26 |
| Maurice Clement | 1.4 |
| Author Janice Knowlton | 1.42 |
| Other books | 1.43 |
| Other theories | 3.3 |
| Boomhower Murder | 4.1 |
| Mattie Comfort | 4.3 |
| Hardcover Revision | 6.4 |
| Film “Sunset Blvd.” | 6.5 |
| Charles Wagenheim | 7.3 |
| Jeopardy Show | 7.4 |
| Rosco/Felix photos | 9.2 |
| FBI Profiling | 9.3 |
| “Mr. Barnes” as susp | 10.1, 23.1 |
| Scarlett Johansson | 25.1 |
| New Line Cinema | 27.2 |
| Dr. Walter Bayley | 29.1 |
| Jean Spangler invest. | 31.1 |
| Woman screaming | 33.1 |
| Spangler investigation | 35.2 |
| Huston/African Queen | 42.1 |
| Elizabeth Brevort Hotel | 48.1 |
| Lenorak/Dr. Ballard | 49.1 |
| Favorite Book Review | 52.2 |
| Attorney Robert Neeb | 55.1 |
| 1947 Life Mag. Article | 63.1 |
| Lone Woman murders | 70.2 |
| “Blue Dahlia” film | 71.1 |
| BDA TV shows | 71.3 |
| Richard Seaver Obit | 78.1 |
| Spaulding/Mrs. X ltrs | 69.1 |
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| Mattie Comfort | 4.3 |
| Officer Mary Unkefer | 5.5, 11.1 |
| Charles Wagenheim | 7.3 |
| Rosco the Dog | 9.2 |
| Lillian Lenorak | 11.1 |
| Connie Starr witness | 12.1 |
| Marion Herwood Keyes | 12.1 |
| “Gloria” in GHH album | 14.1 |
| Dr. Walter Bayley | 29.1 |
| Lt. Frank Jemison | 30.1 |
| Jean Spangler | 31.1, 35.2 |
| Henry Miller | 38.2 |
| Karoun Tootikian | 39.2 |
| Janice Knowlton | 39.3 |
| LAPD Cmdr Tatreau | 40.3 |
| Author Peter Viertel | 42.1 |
| Jean Ellroy murder | 43.1 |
| LASD Det. Bill Stoner | 47.1 |
| Ch. Smith/Dr. Ballard | 49.1 |
| Betty Bersinger/ Bayley | 51.1 |
| Alex Constance witness | 54.1 |
| Atty Robert Neeb | 55.1 |
| Det. Walter Morgan bio | 57.1 |
| LASD Cmdr. Tom Vetter | 60.1 |
| Alan Adler, Silversmith | 65.1 |
| Gregory Peck anecdote | 66.1 |
| Louise Springer Murder | 77.1 |
| Pub. Dick Seaver obit | 78.1 |
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