Black Dahlia Internet Radio Discussion Sat Jan 21, 2012 8PM PST

By
Steve Hodel
on January 18th, 2012 | | No Comments

This coming Saturday night, January 21st 2012,* at 8pm PST I will be doing a Black Dahlia related podcast interview onSTRANGE FREQUENCIES RADIO. The show will be hosted by Jason Korbus and Bobby Nelson. Hopefully, between the three of us, we can make it both interesting and informative. See you there.

Steve Hodel

http://www.strangefrequenciesradio.net
*On January 21st, 1947, LAPD distributed the below WANTED INFORMATION BULLETIN on the victim, Elizabeth “Black Dahlia” Short. The bulletin was distributed in bars, restaurants, hotels in the downtown and Hollywood areas.

Despite the MYTH OF THE MISSING WEEK, fourteen witnesses were located and interviewed (seven of whom actually personally knew the victim). These witnesses actually accounted for Elizabeth’s whereabouts in both the downtown and Hollywood area every day of the missing week up and through January 14, 1947. The body was found the following day, January 15, 1947 posed on a vacant lot, some five miles south of Hollywood.

January 21, 1947

The Englewood Four Are Exonerated After Serving 17 Years- Court Confirms Teenagers Wrongfully Convicted Based on “False Confession

By
Steve Hodel
on January 17th, 2012 | | Comment (1)

Chicago, Illinois

January 17, 2012

“The Innocence project is calling on Cook County to conduct a review of all cases involving juvenile confessions.”

Let’s hope that this will include a review of William Heiren’s 1946 false confession as a teenager for three “Lipstick Murders” crimes that he falsely confessed to to save himself from being executed.

Bill, as summarized in my book, MOST EVIL, is currently serving his 66th year in Illinois State Prison for three murders HE DID NOT COMMIT. Physical Evidence containing the real killer’s potential DNA was booked into evidence at the FBI laboratory. Does it still exist? Will they test it?

Innocence Blog
Four Chicago Men Cleared After 17 Years
Posted: January 17, 2012 5:00 pm

Michael Saunders, Terrill Swift, Harold Richardson and Vincent Thames were officially exonerated today when prosecutors decided to drop the charges against them for a 1994 murder in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. The so-called “Englewood Four” were wrongfully convicted as teenagers based on their false confessions although DNA evidence always demonstrated that they could not have been the perpetrators.

Today’s decision comes after months of resistance from the State’s Attorney’s Office. DNA testing results implicating the real perpetrator, a convicted murderer, were released nearly a year ago. In spite of this overwhelming evidence of innocence, the prosecution stood by the convictions. Saunders and Richardson were released in November 2011 when a Chicago judge threw out the convictions. Swift and Thames were already released and living under strict regulation as registered sex offenders.

Read more about the Englewood Four at below link.

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http://www.innocenceproject.org/news/Blog.php

Jan 15, 2012 – 65th Anniversary of Black Dahlia Murder- Last Living Photo

By
Steve Hodel
on January 15th, 2012 | | Comment (1)

Last Living Photo of Elizabeth Short

Today marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth Short.

Above is one of a series of last known photographs taken of Elizabeth Short prior to her murder. Elizabeth is seen sitting on the steps off John Marshall High School, located in Hollywood. Photo was taken in October, 1946.

John Marshall High School is located in the Los Feliz District of Hollywood, just 1.5 miles east of Dr. Hodel’s 1946 Franklin House (A).


REST IN PEACE ELIZABETH

George Hodel “Parable of the Sparrows” Letter – “An Enigma inside a Mystery”

By
Steve Hodel
on January 6th, 2012 | | Comments (5)

In both Black Dahlia Avenger (Arcade Pub. 2003) and again in MOST EVIL (Dutton Pub. 2009) I printed my father’s four-page response to a letter I had written him four months earlier. In Christmas 1979, I had written to tell him how much I loved and respected him.

In March, 1980, I received father’s letter, mailed from his then residence in Manila, Philippines.

In light of what we now know related to his serial killings, I believe this thirty-two-year-old communication gives us the best look into both George Hodel’s fragmented personal philosophy and psychology, and I will let his own words speak for him.

Below I have attached a PDF copy of the original letter as well as a reading of it by actor, Malcolm Hillgartner from the Brilliance audio-book.

In his reading of the complete book, Malcolm did an outstanding job of capturing the feel and flavor of Dr. George Hill Hodel. The book closes with Hillgartner reading my father’s original 1925 poem, INFERENCE, which in many respects, “Say’s it all.”

Copy of Copy of Parable of the Sparrows GHH by Hillgartner AUDIO READING

GHH Parable Sparrows letter PDF FORMAT

Here is Malcolm Hillgartner’s reading of my father’s poem.

ghh inference fnl
AUDIO FORMAT