Steve Hodel - Black Dahlia Avenger III: Murder as a Fine Art: Presenting the Further Evidence Linking Dr. George Hill Hodel to the Black Dahlia and Other Lone Woman Murders

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Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication data
Names: Hodel, Steve, 1941, author.
Title: Black Dahlia Avenger III / Steve Hodel.
Series: Black Dahlia Avenger
Description: Includes bibliographical references. | First Trade Paperback Original Edition | A Vireo Book | New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA: Rare Bird Books, 2018.
Identifiers: ISBN 9781945572975
Subjects: LCSH Short, Elizabeth, 19241947. | Hodel, George. | MurderCaliforniaLos AngelesCase studies. | MurderInvestigationCaliforniaLos AngelesCase studies. | BISAC TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
Classification: LCC HV6534.L7 H63 2018 | DDC 364.152/3/0979494dc23

Contents

Preface

D uring my active years as an LAPD detective III homicide supervisor, I was required to review and approve what the department referred to as Homicide Progress Reports.

The department manual required that these reports be submitted by the assigned homicide detectives every six months on any active and unsolved murder investigation.

Additionally, if the case were solved and a filing obtained with the LADAs office, any new evidence that the detectives may have developed, post-arrest, would be required to be extensively detailed in a follow-up report.

I would ask that my readers consider this publication of Black Dahlia Avenger III just that.

It is my newest follow-up report to you on my ongoing investigation, which now spans some nineteen years (1999-2018).

During those years I have presented four books: Black Dahlia Avenger (2003) , Most Evil (2009) , Black Dahlia Avenger II (2014), and Most Evil II (2015) .

Four separate books, which include twenty-five crimes, committed in a dozen separate police jurisdictions, but yet they remain o ne suspect. O ne investigation .

In effect, the publications are really my ongoing progress reports.

Consequently, to understand the big picture and how George Hodels crime signatures all interlink, ideally one needs to read all four (now five) books.

We discover that each of his crimes builds on the previous and George Hodels MO and signatures from the distant past become variations on a theme in his later ones.

By example, his taunts and mailings as the Chicago Lipstick Killer morphed into his mailings as Black Dahlia Avenger, which then two decades later became entwined in his letters to the press as Zodiac.

In Black Dahlia Avenger III, I present dramatic new evidence and new exhibits further linking my father, Dr. George Hill Hodel, to the Black Dahlia and other LA Lone Women Murder crimes of the 1940s.

Also, I present additional new linkage further connecting him to the Chicago Lipstick Murders and to the San Francisco Bay Area crimes where he reinvented himself using the pseudonym, Zodiac.

Separate from the actual crime investigation, I have also included new chapters taking a deeper dive into the Hodel personal family connections.

Included in these are George Hodels Cast of Characters listing his direct personal acquaintance with many hitherto unnamed Hollywood personalities.

There is a full chapter on my half sister, Tamar Nais Hodel, and her remarkable life, along with a never-before-published ninety-minute interview, transcribed in full, from a video interview she did at my request back in 2004.

Her first-person description of our father, her sexual victimization by him and others, and her ongoing love and fear of him are both heartbreaking and riveting.

Because of the historical importance of my father and his serial crimes and their direct connection to the City of Los Angeles in the 1940s, I have examined his influence on Hollywood and classic films in a chapter entitled Reel Life Crimes.

We then follow Dr. George Hodel to Hawaii and A New Life and New Wife after he fled Los Angeles to avoid arrest and prosecution for several of his LA crimes.

I close this follow-up investigation with a short summary and review of each of the (to date) twenty-five crimes George Hodel committed as Chicagos Lipstick Murderer, Los Angeless Black Dahlia Avenger, and San Franciscos Zodiac.

As of this writing, I am actively continuing my ongoing investigation of The Early Years which will examine and present my fathers serial murders in the 1920s and 1930s.

A New Man Ray Nexus: Les Invendables
(The Unsalables) 1969

I n late December 2016, while I was conducting some internet research in preparation for an interview scheduled for the seventieth anniversary of the Black Dahlia murder, I chanced upon a Man Ray lithograph that I had never seen before.

It was a poster announcing a Man Ray exhibition, Les Invendables (The Unsalables), to be held at the Galerie Alphonse Chave in Vence, France.

The Man Ray drawings would be on exhibit at the gallery in April and May 1969.

Further searches led me to the discovery of an online 1969 original brochure/catalog announcing the exhibit, which included an introduction by Man Ray written in French.

1969 Man Ray Les Invendables Alphonse Chave gallery catalog with introduction by Man Ray

On December 27, 2016, I sent the below short email to my good friend Yves Person in Paris, asking if he might translate Man Rays words. Yves is the high school teacher who cracked the Zodiac cipher after discovering that George Hodel used the ancient Celtic tree alphabet, OGHAM, to sign his name HODEL in an authenticated cipher Zodiac mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1970. (See Most Evil II , Rare Bird Books 2015, Chapter 10 for complete details of Mssr. Persons decryption and solving of the Zodiac cipher.)

Paris high school teacher, Mssr. Yves Person 2015

My email to YP:

Dear Yves,

Between gradings could you take a peek at the attached text which Man Ray wrote for the 1969 catalog Les Invendables ? Anything there of interest? How do you interpret the name he uses? The unsellables? Meaning works that he would not or could not sell? Or works that did not sell? Any clue in his written text? (attached)

Best, Steve

YPs response with translation:

Steve,

As I translated it in a previous message, les invendables means: things that couldnt be sold. One says: Cest invendable! to speak of something too ugly or too damaged for someone to sell it.

Yves then provided me with his translation of Man Rays words as written in the catalog: