Most Evil

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
/>   Hodel, Tamar (author’s half-sister)

  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