Black Dahlia
Published March 31, 2026Updated August 15, 2026
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Transcripts of surveillance at the Hodels' Hollywood home that showed Dr. George Hill Hodel confessed to the Black Dahlia murder and other crimes in the mid-20th century. The transcripts were found in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office in the early 2000s.
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Dr. George Hodel and Steve Hodel in 1943, just four years before Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, was gruesomely murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947.
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Birch Bay resident Steve Hodel, l., and his father Dr. George Hodel at Steve Hodel’s former house in Bellingham in 1995. When George Hodel died in 1999, Steve Hodel, a career Los Angeles police detective, began putting together the pieces that his father was the likely killer of the Black Dahlia, one of the largest unsolved murder cases in U.S. history. Steve Hodel, a New York Times best selling author, will give a presentation on his investigation at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 13 at Village Books
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Black Dahlia: A head shot of Elizabeth Short who had been an aspiring actress until her untimely murder
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Black Dahlia Murder Scene
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Black Dahlia murder scene
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Mug shots and fingerprint of Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI provided Short's prints and mug shots from its files to the press after her murder.
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Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia
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The Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short, and major Gordon.
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Elizabeth Short was an aspiring actress who was murdered in Los Angeles in 1947.
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American aspiring actress and murder victim Elizabeth Short , known as the 'Black Dahlia,' wears a fur coat and stands with her mother, Phoebe Mae...
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Elizabeth Short Black Dahlia crime scene 1947 | by gsjansen
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Black Dahlia crime scene in Leimert Park, 1947
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