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Websites:
www.stevehodel.com
www.zodiackiller.com
www.lapl.org
www.lmharnisch.com
Black Dahlia Avenger Television Documentaries & Shows:
Dateline NBC, “Black Dahlia” Josh Mankiewicz (2003 twenty-minute segment)
Court TV, “Who Killed the Black Dahlia?” Josh Mankiewicz (2003 one-hour)
CBS 48-Hours Special, “Black Dahlia Confidential” (2004 one-hour)
A&E Bill Kurtis Cold Case Files, “Black Dahlia” (2006 one-hour)
NBC Universal (France), The Truth about the Black Dahlia (2006 one-hour)
CNN Anderson Cooper-360, “Black Dahlia” (2006 eight-minute author interview)
Discovery Channel, “MOST EVIL” (2007 one-hour)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STEVE HODEL is a licensed P.I. and has specialized in criminal investigations for the past forty-two years. He served twenty-four years with LAPD and was assigned to Hollywood Homicide for eighteen-years where he worked more than three hundred murder cases and achieved one of the highest “solve rates” on the force. He retired as a Detective III [the highest attainable rank in the Detective Bureau] and resides in his hometown of Los Angeles.
Harper Collins 2006
“Hodel’s investigation is thoroughly and completely convincing. So too is this book. As far as I am concerned, this case is closed.”
MICHAEL CONNELLY
Bestselling author, Harry Bosch novels
Dutton 2009
When veteran LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel discovered that his late father had known the victim in the infamous Black Dahlia murder case in 1947 Los Angeles, the ensuing three-year investigation became the New York Times bestseller Black Dahlia Avenger. Publication led directly to the discovery of a cache of hidden documents, covered up for decades, that confirm George Hodel had long been law enforcement’s number one suspect in Elizabeth Short’s grisly death. A lurid murder mystery that had endured for more than fifty years was finally solved.
But for Steve Hodel, that revelation was only the beginning. With twenty-five years of experience investigating homicides as an LAPD detective, Hodel’s instincts told him that a man capable of bisecting Elizabeth Short’s body, arranging it in a gruesome and public tableau, and taunting the police and the public with notes and phone calls, did not begin or end his killing career with the Black Dahlia. A chance encounter in the wake of Black Dahlia Avenger’s publication led Steve to consider a question as preposterous as it is compelling.
Twenty years after shocking the world in Los Angeles, could Dr. George Hill Hodel have returned to terrorize California as the killer known as Zodiac?
Author website: www.stevehodel.com
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Foreword by Steve Hodel
Available on-line in print and e-book formats
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ABOUT THE BOOK
“This is the best payoff I’ve seen between Law Enforcement Agencies. I’m the only one who knows how everything fits together. Supposing I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn’t prove it now. They can’t talk to my secretary anymore because she’s dead.”
Dr. George Hill Hodel
LA DA Black Dahlia Electronic Surveillance Tapes
February 18, 1950
“She [DA witness Mattie Comfort, girlfriend of Dr. Hodel] was with Doctor Hodel sometime prior to the murder and that she knew about his being associated with victim.” [Elizabeth ‘Black Dahlia’ Short]
DA Investigator Lt. Frank Jemison
1950 typed statement included in his official investigative summary
In Black Dahlia Avenger II, bestselling author and veteran LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel presents his six-year follow-up investigation [2006-2012] into the Los Angeles Black Dahlia and other serially connected 1940s Lone Woman Murders.
After the 2003 publication of his NYT bestseller and MWA Edgar nominated true-fact crime book, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder, and receiving a “CASE SOLVED” legal opinion from many of LA’s top law enforcement officials—which included a then active Head Deputy District Attorney and LAPD’s Chief of Detectives—Hodel didn’t stop there.
In this investigative sequel he presents his careful deconstruction of the Dahlia Myth—exposing and correcting the Black Dahlia Murder’s Three Greatest Urban Myths:
Myth No. 1—“It was a standalone murder”
Myth No. 2—“There was a Missing or Lost Week”
Myth No. 3—“The case was never solved”
Some of BDA II’s new investigative findings:
The obtaining of Dr. George Hodel’s full DNA PROFILE which can now be made available for law enforcement testing and comparison to multiple Cold Case unsolved crimes.
Discovery of the Hollywood residence where the BLACK DAHLIA MURDER was committed along with physical evidence connecting the killer to the house and to the vacant lot where he later transported and posed the victim’s surgically bisected body.
Identification of “The Baron,” George Hodel’s houseguest and accomplice overheard by detectives discussing “crimes and payoffs” on the1950 DA bugging tapes.
New expert medical testimony and evidence photos proving—“A Doctor did it.”
Complete original and unabridged 1950 DA-Hodel Black Dahlia Bugging Transcripts. [146 pages.]
THE HUSTON LETTERS-Personal correspondence between famed film director, John Huston and his ex-wife, Dorothy Huston Hodel [the author’s mother] covering the years 1948-1957. In these private letters Dorothy shares with John the day to day personal fear and terror she was experiencing living with George Hodel, as the doctor threatened her and the children with physical harm in the months just prior to his fleeing the country.
A World Class Surrealist Photographer reveals his firsthand knowledge of the crimes.
Over 300 photographs and crime exhibits including the 1969 Sowden House 17-Photo Historical Survey.