Posts Tagged ‘george hodel’
BLACK DAHLIA MYTH-BUSTING: THE “MISSING WEEK” THAT NEVER WAS
July 3, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington Happy 4th of July! How an LAPD Police Bulletin Helped Create a Black Dahlia Legend—and How the Witnesses It Generated Destroyed It For decades, one of the most repeated claims in the Black Dahlia case has been that Elizabeth Short “disappeared” after she was dropped off at the Biltmore…
Read MoreFrom the Archive: The 2009 National Radio Tour That First Linked Dr. George Hill Hodel to the Black Dahlia and Zodiac Murders
June 29, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington Purloined Letter No. 1Rediscovering the complete national radio tour for Most Evil (September 22, 2009). Every so often, the archive yields an unexpected surprise. A few days ago, while organizing what I now call the Steve Hodel Master Reference Library, I came across an old CD whose existence I…
Read MoreBlack Dahlia & Zodiac — Setting the Record Straight: Prior Publications, Correspondence & Law Enforcement Record
April 29,2026 Birch Bay, Washington The following documented timeline reflects my published work, subsequent independent findings, and law enforcement statements—then and now. The following panels present a documented timeline of publications, correspondence, and law enforcement statements. The record speaks for itself.
Read MoreBLACK DAHLIA–ZODIAC: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
April 12, 2026Birch Bay, Washington In recent weeks there has been renewed public discussion, including work associated with the Connelly team, suggesting that the Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings may have been committed by the same offender. That idea is not new—and it is not recent. It is one I first placed into…
Read MoreModern Forensic Analysis Identifies “Jane Doe” in Dr. George Hodel Album as Elizabeth Short, the “Black Dahlia”
February 19, 2026 Birch Bay, Washington Modern Forensic Analysis Identifies “Jane Doe” in Dr. George Hodel Album as Elizabeth Short, the “Black Dahlia” “Updated Forensic facial analysis indicates a 97–99% probability that this image from Dr. George Hodel’s private album depicts Elizabeth Short, the ‘Black Dahlia.” As Within, So Without: Man Ray,…
Read MoreJournalist 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…
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