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Journalist Johanna Elattar author of “The Black Dahlia Revisited” (2024) Honored by Oxford University Press to publish her work on the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in Feb. 2026
November 1, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Huge congratulations to Johanna Elattar for her upcoming publication in the Oxford University Press. A hard earned and well deserved honor in recognition of her writing skills and determination and dedication to The Truth. Her January 15, 2024 article on “The Black Dahlia Revisited” is republished below. Journalist Johanna…
Read More“Two Doors Down”-New Clews in the Murder Investigation of Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short
Two Doors Down: George Hodel & the Black Dahlia Investigation Clews
Read MoreCoincidence 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…
Read MoreA New Taunting Double Entendre “Clew” Linking Dr. George Hodel to the 1947 “Black Dahlia Avenger” Mailings
August 20, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington On January 28, 1947, some thirteen days after his torture/murder and posing of the body of Elizabeth Short on the vacant lot in Liemert Park, five miles south of Hollywood, the “Black Dahlia Avenger” mailed in a collage, a cut-and-paste letter to the Herald Express newspaper. It read: “Go…
Read More“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…
Read More72nd Anniversay of the Elizabeth Short “Black Dahlia Murder” Will Feature Two Major Productions Linking Dr. George Hill Hodel As Her Killer: Additional LA Lone Women Murder Victims Remembered
January 15, 2019 Los Angeles, California Today, January 15, 2019, marks the 72nd Anniversary of “LA’s most infamous murder.” In life, her name was Elizabeth Short, an attractive, and rather naïve twenty-two -year old woman from Medford, Massachusetts. In death, she became known as “The Black Dahlia.” Even today if you speak her given name, few would…
Read MoreAuthor Steve Hodel To Reveal Historic Black Dahlia Related "Breaking News" New Evidence At South Pasadena Library Talk- November 1, 2018 7:00 P.M.
Los October 24, 2018 Angeles, California Thanks to a most welcome invitation from my good friend and South Pasadena Librarian, STEVE FJELSTED, I will be presenting a PowerPoint Talk next week at the beautifully designed (1907) South Pasadena Library Community Room. See below poster for details. Hope to see you there. As indicated below, I…
Read MoreOn the High Seas with "Baron Ernst Harringa" Crime Accomplice to George Hodel as told by then 11-year-old Gil Osgood
October 8, 2018 Los Angeles, California On Sunday Oct 7, 2018 I received the below Message from Gil Osgood, a retired computer programmer at the University of Oregon. It read: Message I was working today on a memoir about my sea voyage in 1952…
Read MoreGeorge Hodel and Juliet Man Ray Letters: 1980s Correspondence and a Meeting in Paris
February 7, 2018 Los Angeles, California “Je me souviens des jours ancients, et je pleure.” “I remember the old days, and I cry.” George Hodel in his letter to Juliet Man Ray dated 27 July 1983 Prior to this article, the last public documented communication between the Man Ray’s and George Hodel occurred in the early 1950s…
Read MoreThe Gentleman, The Cowboy and The Bracero: Los Feliz Elementary School 1949
November 19, 2017 Los Angeles It was the second to the last day of April, 1949, a Friday. A light rain was falling on the streets of Hollywood, as the Gentleman, the Cowboy and the Bracero each readied himself for the picture taking. It was mid-morning when each gathered with their separate classmates at Los…
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