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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“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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72nd 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…

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Author 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…

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