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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…
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…
Read MoreChild Musical Prodigy George Hodel Performs at LA Egan/Little Theater in 1914 at age 6–DTLA Map Showing Locations He Practiced Music, Medicine and Murder
October 9, 2017 Los Angeles, California “George Hodel only 6 years old, proved one of the favorites of the recital. He is, small, but possessed of phenomenal talent as a pianist.” Los Angeles Daily Times…
Read More38th Anniversary of Veteran Actor Charles Wagenheim Hollywood Murder: A Bizarre "Zodiac" Connection That Spanned 27 Years
March 31, 2017 Los Angeles This month marks the 38th anniversary of the murder of veteran actor, Charles Wagenheim, who was beaten to death in his Hollywood apartment on March 6, 1979. Here is the “fact stranger than fiction” Wagenheim story that begins in 1952 and…
Read MoreSpell-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…
Read MoreKiyo Hodel, Laurel Canyon Astrologer to the Stars and the Black Dahlia Investigation
April 19, 2016 Los Angeles, California Kiyo Q: Is your ex-wife KIYO still alive? Do you think she knew about your father and Elizabeth Short? Why was Kiyo’s picture still in your father’s photo album with Elizabeth Short and other family members? No, Kiyo died from cancer, in 1978, some thirteen years after our divorce…
Read MoreThe Case of the Stolen 1400-Year-Old Chinese Sacrificial Tablet – Did George Hodel Use the Item During the Sowden House Torture Murder of Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short?
Chinese Sacrificial Tablet HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C. – A.D. 220 10″x6″x1″ Photo from THE MET museum believed similar in appearance to stone tablet taken in 1947 burglary from Sowden/Hodel residence described as being: “11”x6″x31/2″ bearing about 50 Chinese characters carved on a dark gray stone.” March 2, 2016 Los Angeles, California The Los…
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