After learning that his father, the late Dr. George Hodel, had known Elizabeth Short, victim in the infamously unsolved “Black Dahlia” case, Steve Hodel, a homicide detective with the LAPD for almost 25 years, decided to investigate.
His three year search resulted in the astonishing conclusion that his own father was the murderer as he describes in his book Black Dahlia Avenger: a Genius for Murder. Upon publishing he also discovered his father was the prime suspect all along but that there had been a police cover up and evidence had been destroyed.
Hodel, who has worked on more than three hundred investigations, decided that it was likely that such a devious murderer would have killed before and after his crime against Short. In his second book, Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hodel, (Dutton 2009), a sequel to his original investigation, the detective presents new evidence that his father may well have continued his serial killings through the 1960s.
Steve Hodel, former LAPD homicide detective and New York Times best-selling author, will present the evidence that his father was both the Black Dahlia murderer and a notorious serial killer. This sure to be absorbing program sponsored by the Friends of the Library will be held at the main Altadena Library on Mon. March 14 at 7 pm. Hodel’s books Black Dahlia Avenger: a Genius for Murder and Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hodel will be available for sale and signing.
The main Altadena Library is located at 600 E. Mariposa St., Altadena. For more information, call (626) 798-0833
Information: (626) 798-0833; www.altadenalibrary.org; pdutton@altadenalibrary.org
