by Steve Hodel
and surrealism
Cunningham, Abner
Curran Theatre
Dalí, Salvador
Darrow, Clarence
De Quincey, Thomas
Deadalus (mythological)
Decker, David
Dedalus, Stephen
Dedrick, John
Degnan, James
Degnan, Suzanne
and codes
and dismemberment
and false confession
and handwriting analysis
investigation findings
and Jack-the-Ripper connection
and lipstick notes
and MO comparisons
newspaper photo
ransom note
and street name connections
and surrender offer
Degnan Boulevard
depravity scale
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
Diamond, Slig
Dickensheet, Dean W.
Dillon, John
Discovery Channel
dissection and dismemberment
and the Brown murder
and the Degnan murder
and the Lalu murder
and MO comparisons
and the Short murder
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Dixon Correctional Center
DNA evidence
and the Degnan murder
and hairs
and ongoing investigation
and Zodiac letters
Dodge, Tom
Donahoe, Jack
Drizin, Steven A.
Duchamp, Marcel
Dwan Gallery
Earthworks
education of Hodel
and Caltech
and cultural symbolism
and handwriting analysis
and medical school
and musical training
and Poe
and psychological profile
and psychology degree
Egger, John “Jack”
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
electronic surveillance
Ellroy, Geneva
Ellroy, James
employment. See professional life of Hodel
Enterprise
Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
Ernst, Max
Essex, Paul
Evans, Emmett
The Exorcist (1973)
false evidence and confessions
Fantasia (magazine)
Faraday, David
Faxton, Vernon
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Postal Inspectors
Fern Dell Park
Ferrin, Darlene
Figueroa Hotel
film connections
Fincher, David
fingerprints
firearms
and Blue Rock Springs shootings
and the Brown murder
and film connection
and Lake Berryessa attacks
and the Lake Herman Road murders
and the Stine murder
and Zodiac letters
First Street Clinic
Flaubert, Gustave
Flynn, Errol
Folkman, Bernice
Folly (daughter of Hodel)
Forbes Park neighborhood (Manila)
Fouke, Donald
Fowley, Douglas
Franklin House
Frazier, Leuis
French, Jeanne (Red Lipstick murder)
and author’s Black Dahlia theory
case description
crime location
and the Degnan murder
and handwriting analysis
Hodel as suspect
and lipstick connection
and MO comparisons
and serial killer profile
Freutel, James
Friedman, William F.
Fugate, Caril Ann
Garbo, Greta
Genet, Jean
Giampa, John
Giesler, Jerry
gloves
“The Gold Bug” (Poe)
Golden Gate Bridge
Google Maps
Graham’s magazine
graphology. See handwriting analysis
Graysmith, Robert
Great Crimes of San Francisco (Dickensheet)
Greek alphabet
Greenstreet, Sydney
guns. See firearms
Hacienda Bino
hair evidence
handguns. See firearms
handkerchiefs
and the Degnan murder
and the French murder
and the Kern murder
and MO comparisons
handwriting analysis
and Black Dahlia notes
and the Boomhower murder
and the Degnan murder
“a Friend” phrase
and Hodel signature
and holiday cards
and the Kern murder
and Lake Berryessa note
and “less than” symbol
letter “C” and “G”,
letter “e” (typewriter-style)
letter “i” (lowercase)
letter “M”
letter “O”
letter “Z” signature
and lipstick notes
QDE report
and ransom note
and Riverside poem
and the Short murder
and Short’s photo album
slash symbol
and the Stine murder
and term selection
terminology of
underscores and exclamations
and Zodiac document comparisons
Harden, Bettye
Harden, Donald
Hartnell, Brian
case description
and dates of crimes
and film connection
and killer’s MO
portrait
and shoe evidence
Harvey, Dorothy
Hawaii
Heirens, William
hemicorpectomy
Hodel, Dorothy “Dorero” (author’s mother)
Hodel, Duncan
Hodel, Emilia
Hodel, Esther (Hodel’s mother)
Hodel, George Hill. See also education of Hodel; professional life of Hodel
and the Black Dahlia murders
booking photo
childhood
family life
with first wife
at Franklin House
and gloves
and handwriting analysis
hot-air-balloon trip
and incest charges
intelligence of
in military garb
musical training
poetry
portrait
in San Francisco
in Santa Fe
star named for
suicide plans
and suspect descriptions
and Zodiac sketches
Hodel, George (Hodel’s father)
Hodel, Hortensia
Hodel, John
Hodel, June (Hodel’s fourth wife)
and Hodel’s will
hot-air-balloon trip
marriage to Hodel
at Rosario retreat
in San Francisco
Hodel, Kelvin
Hodel, Michael
Hodel, Steve, See also Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder (Hodel)
childhood
correspondence with Hodel
and Heirens
and Hodel’s business ventures
and Hodel’s first daughter
and Hodel’s funeral
as homicide detective
hot-air-balloon trip
and ongoing investigation
and response to first book
travels with Hodel
visits with Hodel
and Zodiac case
birth
and chronology of Hodel’s life
description of Hodel
and incest charges
and investigation of Hodel
Hollywood, California
Hollywood Canteen
Hollywood Independent
Holt, Cydne
Hopi culture
Hradek, Joseph
Huston, Dorothy Harvey
Huston, John
hypnosis
Illinois Prisoner Review Board
Illinois Supreme Court
incest
account of
booking photo of Hodel
and interrogation of Hodel
and MO of Hodel
and psychological profile of Hodel
trial
The Index of Coincidence and Its Application in Cryptography (Friedman)
Inspector Clouseau Award
International Research Associates (INRA)
International Travel Research Institute (INTRI)
interview evidence
iodine
Ives, Burl
Jack the Ripper
Jansen, Jan
Jeffers, Robinson
Jekyll-and-Hyde dynamic
Jemison, Frank
Jennings, Duffy
Jensen, Betty Lou
Jigsaw Murder
John Sowden House
Johnson, William
Julius Kahn Playground
Jung, Carl
Jupiter (Poe character)
Kachina dolls
Kay, Stephen
Kearns, Jerry
Keegan, Mary
Keegan, Thomas
Kelly, Edward
Kennedy, Dolores
Kern, Gladys Eugenia
case description
crime location
and handwriting analysis
Hodel as suspect
and MO comparisons
Kidd, William (Captain Kidd)
kidnapping
knives
Ko-Ko the Lord High Executioner
Laffey, Sgt. Thomas
Lake Berryessa attacks. See also Hartnell, Brian; Shepard, Celia
case description
and dates of crimes
and film connection
and ongoing investigation
and suspect descriptions
Lake Herman Road murders . See also Faraday, David; Jensen, Betty Lou
Lake Taal
Lalu y Tolentino, Cesar
Lalu y Tolentino, Lucila (Jigsaw murder)
Land Art
Landgrowth Corporation
landmarks. See maps
Lawson, Emilia
Le Berthon, Ted
Le Minotaure (magazine)
Legrand, William
Lermontov, Boris
letters. See handwriting analysis
Lewis, Peter
Lewis College
lie detectors
lipstick. See also Brown, Frances (Lipstick murder); French, Jeanne (Red Lipstick murder)
and the Chicago murders
and the Degnan murder
and handwriting analysis
Red Lipstick murder
Lorre, Peter
Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office
Los Angeles Evening Herald
Los Angeles Examiner
and the Bauerdorf murder
and the Degnan murder
and the French murder
and the Short murder
and Short’s photo album
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Los Angeles Herald Express
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)
Author’s career with
and Hodel incest trial
investigation of Hodel
and the Short murder
Los Angeles Record
Los Angeles Times
and the Bauerdorf murder
and handwriting analysis
and the Kern murder
on Lipstick Killer connection
and The Most Dangerous Game
and the Stine murder
and suicide notes
and Zodiac letters
on Zodiac links
Los Angeles Yellow Cab Company
Los Feliz neighborhood
The Lover’s Lips (Ray)
The Lovers (Ray)
Madame Butterfly
Mageau, Michael
Makati District
Malick, Terrence
Maloney, Michael
The Maltese Falcon (film)
Manaugh, Carl
Manila, Philippines
Manila Times
Manson, Charles
maps
and the Degnan murder
and geographic connections
and Hodel residences
and the Jigsaw murder
locations of Hollywood crimes
Mt. Diablo code
Phillips 66 map
and street name connections
Marx, Groucho
mathematical symbols
McFarland, Hannah. See also handwriting analysis
and the Boomhower murder
and the Degnan murder
and the Kern murder
and the Short murder
and Zodiac document comparisons
media coverage. See also specific newspapers
medical training of Hodel
medicine wheels
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
Merry Widow murder
The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan)
military clothing
Miller, Henry
Mindanao culture
The Minotaur (Ray)
Minotaur symbol
The Mirror
Mitchum, Robert
modus operandi (MO) of killer
analysis of Black Dahlia Avenger
brutality of murders (See also sadism)
and the Chicago murders
cleaning of bodies
and the Degnan murder
dissection and dismemberment
and handkerchiefs
and misspellings
and notes/letters
posing of victims’ bodies
and serial killer traits and staged suicide
strangulation
taunting letters and calls
and victims’ clothing
“Zodiac speaking” phrase
Morel, Vernon (pseudonym)
Morrill, Sherwood
Morris, Paul
Morrison, Jim
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Most Evil (television)
motive. See also slaves-in-afterlife myth; specific crimes
Mt. Diablo code
Mountain View Cemetery
Mulcahy, Sheriff Michael
“MURDER, Considered as One of the Fine Arts” (De Quincey)
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (Poe)
Murray, Ora (White Gardenia murder)
“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (Poe)
mythology and mythological figures
Deadalus
and Mindanao culture
Minotaur
slaves-in-afterlife myth
Themistocles
Napa County Sheriff’s Office
Narlow, Kenneth
Native American culture
Navajo culture
Neeb, Robert
Nelson, Elmer
New Mexico State Department of Public Health
The New York Times
Newton, Marian
Nicolai, Melvin
Nietzsche, Friedrich
O. Henry Memorial Award
Oakland Bay Bridge
Object of Destruction (Ray)
On the Psychology of the Unconscious (Jung)
“On the Trail of the Zodiac”
opium
Pagoda Club
; Pantages, Alexander
Papke, Rick
Paris, Lou
Parrot, Kent Kane
Penn, Gareth
The Persistence of Memory (Dalí)
personal effects of victims. See also clothing of victims
and the Boomhower murder
location of
and MO comparisons
and the Short murder
and the Spangler murder
Phantom Killer
Philippines
Phillips, John
Phillips, Michelle
Phillips 66 map
photo albums
Poe, Edgar Allan
poetry
police misconduct and brutality
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
“Portrait of the Artist as a Mass Murderer” (Penn)
posing of victims’ bodies
and the Brown murder
and MO comparisons
and the Ross murder
and the Short murder
post office box keys
Prendergast, John C.
Presidio Heights
Primetime Live: The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer
professional life of Hodel
broadcasting career
business ventures
cab driving job
journalism
magazine publishing
marketing career
medical practice
Naval career
radio broadcasting
and timing of crimes
UNRRA assignment
prostitutes
Pseudologia Fantastica
psychological profiles
“The Purloined Letter” (Poe)
purses
questioned document examination (QDE) . See also handwriting analysis
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
radians
Rainsford, Sanger
ransom note
Ray, Man
Dalí photo
and dream symbolism
friendship with Hodel
and The Minotaur
and Object of Destruction
and surrealism
Red Lipstick murder. See also French, Jeanne (Red Lipstick murder)
The Red Shoes (film)
Redding, Otis
Rexroth, Kenneth
Rice, Craig (pseudonym)
Richardson, James
Riverside, California
Riverside City College
Riverside Enterprise
Riverside Police Department
Riverside Press
robberies
Robinson, Edward G., Jr.
Robles, Armand
Romero, Cesar
Ross, Jacqueline
Ross, Josephine Alice
Sade, Donatien Alphonse Francois (Marquis de Sade)
sadism. See also brutality of murders
San Francisco Chronicle
and bomb threat
and confession letters
and connection between crimes
and cryptograms and ciphers
and “Exorcist” letter
and film connections
and handwriting analysis
Hodel’s column in
and ongoing investigation
and the Stine murder
and suspect sketches
and Zodiac letters
and Zodiac map
Zodiac’s affinity for
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco Golden Gate Fair
San Francisco Police Department