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…

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Fauna Hodel Interview Inside the Sowden/Hodel House: No “Chinatown Scenario” (‘She’s My Daughter/She’s My Sister’); DNA Eliminates Dr. George Hodel as Father of Fauna Hodel- A New Thoughtprint?

  May 11, 2019 Los Angeles, Californi DNA ANALYSIS REVEALS DR. GEORGE HILL HODEL NOT BIOLOGICAL FATHER OF FAUNA HODEL   Fauna Hodel birth certificate  Born in San Francisco on August 1, 1951 Place of Birth- St. Elizabeth’s Infant Hospital, 100 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco Mother-Tamar Nais Hodel  “Age 16” Female, Single Father-“Information withheld concerning…

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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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U.K. Sunday Times Matt Rudd's "Crimes Scenes" – The Zodiac Murders Part 2- Columnist Asks, "Could the 1940s Black Dahlia Avenger and the 1960s Zodiac be the same person–Dr. George Hill Hodel?

October 4, 2015 Los Angeles, California The below article, “The Zodiac murders: Part 2” appeared in this morning’s London Sunday Times in the senior writer, Matt Rudd’s, “Crime Scenes” column.  (Part 1, backgrounding the Zodiac crimes published the previous Sunday, September 27, 2015.) Matt asks: “Could it be that the Zodiac killer of the 1960s…

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Chicago Journalist Michael Lenehan’s 2009 Book Review of MOST EVIL: Avenger, Zodiac and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel

May 7, 2015 Los Angeles, California In November, 2009, journalist Michael Lenehan wrote an extensive review of my book, MOST EVIL: Avenger, Zodiac and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel (Dutton)  I found it to be not only exceedingly well written, but it was one of the most accurate, intelligent and concise…

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Journalist Host Chris Cella to Premiere INQUISITOR Podcast October 24th with Interview with Retired LAPD Homicide Detective and Black Dahlia Avenger Author Steve Hodel

October 17, 2014 Los Angeles, California                           Inquisitor Podcast Host Chris Cella interviews Author and former LAPD Homicide Detective Steve Hodel. Episode 1: “My father, the artist” will go live Friday, October 24th, 2014. www.facebook.com/InquisitorPodcast  www.inquisitorpodcast.com Last month I was approached by photo-journalist, Chris…

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