Ex-LAPD detective believes his father committed the Black Dahlia murder

The Black Dahlia murder case is one of the famous unsolved murders from Hollywood, but does it finally have a solution? Steve Hodel, a former LAPD homicide detective thinks his father committed the murder. It doesn’t come as too big a shock to him. His father, George Hodel, was a prime suspect in the 1947 murder. He was eventually booked in 1949 for incest and child molestation. Hodel recently spoke to a Pasadena audience explaining the evidence he had against his father. Elizabeth Short was one of the many young women who came to Hollywood looking to be an actress. In January 1947, the 22-year-old woman was murdered in Leimert Park in Los Angeles. Her body had been sliced in half at the waist and drained of blood. It was a gruesome killing that attracted a lot of attention then Read more…