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January 15, 2015

This Day in History: January 15th- The Black Dahlia

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One of the chief suspects was Dr. George Hill Hodel. Author and former LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel believes his father, Dr. Hodel, was the Black Dahlia killer. Among other things, Steve recently searched his father’s former basement accompanied by retired police Sgt. Paul Dostie and Buster, a Labrador retriever specially trained to detect traces of human decomposition. Buster did indeed find markers consistent with human decomposition in Dr. Hodel’s residence, even after all these years. TIFO

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 15, 2015 5:13 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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That's a great book - the novel, not the Hodel account. The problem with Hodel is that he also thinks Dad was the Zodiac killer, at which point you think this is really about not getting that shiny bike with the streamers on the handles when he was six.

Posted by: Lileks(James) [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 15, 2015 10:47 AM

You got that right. Dahlia's killer like the Zodiac will never be known.

Posted by: Van der Leun [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 15, 2015 2:23 PM

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