Coincidence or Destiny? A Star in the Heavens and the Black Dahlia Case

September 15, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Tracing destiny through a father’s gift, a photograph, and the enduring mystery of George Hodel and the Black Dahlia Steve and George Hodel side by side 1943 (Cropped from larger family photo.) For the past twenty-six years I’ve wrestled with the question of coincidence versus destiny. In my younger…

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Dr. George Hill Hodel Lineage: Who’s Who in “Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and The Black Dahlia?

March 1, 2019 Los Angeles, California Here is a Hodel Lineage graphic put together by my good friend, mystery writer and retired Dallas P.D. police officer, Robert J. Sadler. This helps us (including myself) understand at a glance who’s who in the Hodel Family lineage. The following family members contributed by providing interviews in the…

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“I AM THE DAY” – Dorothy Huston Hodel (1906-1982) – “Dorero”-The Real “I Am The Night- Corinna Hodel”

February 2, 2019 Los Angeles, California (Orig blogged April 15, 2006, updated this date.) Fiction and Fact- Actress Connie Nielsen plays my mother, “Corinna Hodel” (Dorothy Hodel) in the TNT miniseries “I Am The Night” – Here’s the real Dorothy (SKH Note- Much of this blog was originally published by me in 2016, as a remembrance…

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