Spell-Checking A Serial Killer: Reexamining LA's 1944 Georgette Bauerdorf "Bathtub Murder" Note Update 2016

Los Angeles, California August 13, 2016 THE BAUERDORF NOTE- Update 2016 Photograph of actual Note typed by Bauerdorf Killer (Red spots were placed on paper by killer to mimic blood. Analysis by LA Sheriff’s crime lab showed substance to be the medical antiseptic–IODINE.)   In my original investigation of the 1940s Lone Woman Murders, I…

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Black Dahlia Avenger- A Guide to the Published Editions 2003-2012

  Black Dahlia Avenger–a Guide to the Published Editions 2003-2012  Los Angeles, California I am regularly asked this same question in both e-mails and letters. “Dear Mr. Hodel:  Which edition of Black Dahlia Avenger should I order?”  Hopefully, the following print chronology which includes a brief description of what is included in the separate BDA…

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ROCKSTAR'S L.A. NOIRE MEETS BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER IN CHINATOWN

  More than a dozen of the actual true-life 1940s  crimes investigated and summarized in Black Dahlia Avenger are believed used as “unsolveds” in Rockstar’s L.A. NOIRE, scheduled to be released to the public on May 17th.     Rockstar’s LA NOIRE,  Video Game challenges players to discover which of the 1940s LONE WOMAN MURDERS (all named and…

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NEW FOUND 1947 "AVENGER NOTE" BELIEVED TO BE A SIGNATURE LINK TO OTHER L.A. LONE WOMAN MURDERS- PROVIDES ADDITIONAL LINKAGE TO RED LIPSTICK, AVENGER, ZODIAC CRIMES

  1947 SANTA MONICA MURDER NOTE STRENGTHENS THEORY THAT CHICAGO, LA, RIVERSIDE AND SAN FRANCISCO CRIMES MAY BE CONNECTED   The heretofore, motiveless murder of Santa Monica teenager, Lillian Dominguez, is now believed linked to other 1940s “L.A. Lone Women Murders.”  Her killer left a handwritten note which read:                          “I killed that Santa Monica girl. I will kill others”  Based on…

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