They thought there was something fishy. I just watched the episode of Zak on the Black Dahlia murder with Fauna. I hope Tamar Hodel, Fauna's birth mother, gets to write her own book. Remember, this case came to me, I didnt go to it. If nobody is calling you or those you love crackers, then you can see why negro is offensive you disrespectful mutant. I recently spoke with you explaining how I was told that come to be. You wrote you people not in bad faith, but as a result of your misinterpretation. Though truth be told it never was. The DA tapes recorded him saying:[2][4]. The teenager, from a prominent white California family, did not list a father on the birth certificate, only that he was black. Fauna's birth father was unknown, and the troubled Tamar gave up Fauna for adoption. Site by AuthorBytes. [2] The full details of the investigation came to light only in 2003, when a "George HodelBlack Dahlia File" was discovered in archives at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. Much appreciated. According to George, A sexual relationship between a father and a daughter is normal. Id just like to say, I hope this finds you and finds you in good health ? He described his activities as working undercover for LAPD detectives to help them identify and arrest corrupt police officers; in his words, " it was to try and see if other officers could be inveigled into crime." He called her "Dorero" to avoid confusion with his other wife, Dorothy Anthony, at least within their circle,[2] but she is better known as Dorothy Huston-Hodel. You are that spotlight. Lisa K: I havent watched the miniseries either, the trailer was enough to tell me is is 95% fiction. Yes, Im familiar with the derogatory comments by Larry Harnisch on his website. Amnon had to finagle a way to get Tamar to visit him because the king's children dwelled in different abodes. In October 1949, Hodel's name was mentioned in a formal written report to the grand jury as one of five prime suspects in the Short murder, but none of the named suspects were submitted to the grand jury for consideration for indictment, as the investigation was still ongoing. In any case, I just wanted to put that out there. LAPDs refusal to look at it has I think, all to do with IMAGE. Omg that woman ,Why be offended by something and tell someone off for quoting something someone else in the context of the story has said then go and use that word amongst others themselves their hypocrisy knows no bounds No-one would believe anything bad someone says about you Steve your record speaks for itself , I personally wouldnt put it past that person whos dissed you publicly on their website for 18 + years like LH to pose as a woman S or L on your site to troll you for kicks or attention ( ironic and twisted if true considering GH used to do something similar to people of his former profession as Zodiac ). Teresa J: Elizabeth Short - the Black Dahlia - had been gruesomely . Do you happened to know a relative by the name Starr Hodel? After Hodel died in 1999, his son Steve Hodel, a former LAPD homicide detective, started investigating his father as a possible suspect in the Elizabeth Short murder and has written several books on the subject. [1] He was never formally charged with the crime. George Hodel was accused of sexually assaulting his 14-year old daughter, Tamar Hodel but the misogynistic judge and jury thought that Tamar was "crazy" and acquitted George Hodel. Former piano child prodigy Hodel was a physician who served as the Los Angeles County Health Director in the 1940s. Traumatic Reenactment - Root of Evil: The True . Tamar's childhood was no less than a nightmare, as she was first sexually assaulted by her father at 11 years. I hope you are okay. Theyre listed as retired from the Los Angeles Times and its my impression theyve kept a blog and contributed to an online journal called The Daily Mirror. Depravity and lawlessness exuded from the walls of her home, where her father George . They remained in touch with each other as long as I can remember.. her reasons to win his love and hopefully gain financial support as well. Tamar Hodel was one of six childrenby three different womenof the most pathologically decadent man in Los Angeles: Dr. George Hodel, the city's venereal-disease czar and a fixture in its. Dear Steve, Much appreciated. She said he smiled at her and said, Why dont you name her Elizabeth. During the telling of that story, she laughed and went on to say that seven years later she would name her own daughter, Deborah Elizabeth. Tamar's testimony was perceived as contradictory and attention-seeking. She had gone to her father at age 12 and asked him to name her doll for her. Well, as you know from reading BDA I started out confident I would be able to exonerate my father and easily prove he had no involvement in the horrific crime. Id be interested in hearing your thoughts too. She tried many times to win back his love and hopefully her inheritance as well. They cant defeat the evidence, so all they can do is continue to claim we are too busy with other cold cases to look at Hodels investigation. [7], Her memoir One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel[1] (written with J. R. Briamonte) was published by Outskirts Press in 2008. Fauna did return to the Sowden/Franklin house for an episode on Ghost Adventures, but I believe on false pretext. Assume you are referring to the below paragraph. She is included in my LA Lone Woman Murders and the circumstantial evidence is quite strong. 2. Tamar's Real Story In 1949, two years before Fauna was born, 14-year-old Tamar visited her father, Dr. George Hodel, at his home in Hollywood. Absolutely fascinating story but how is it that you were none the wiser to your exwifes deceptions. 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See the below link to the full story. Thank you for telling your story! Tamar Hodel, who was mad at her father because he wouldn't allow her to get an abortion. Hodel, the younger's investigation presents four (4) potential crimes committed in the 1920s and nineteen (19) crimes believed committed in the 1930s. In 1940, Hodel married Dorothy Harvey, John Huston's ex-wife. I was speechless listening to the part about your discovery of the receipts for the concrete and fertilizer. . McCauley, LAPD Internal Affairs Division). DuJour reports that Tamar eventually moved to Hawaii with Debbie (who changed her name to Fauna-Elizabeth), and had three sons. George Hodel was a notorious Los Angeles doctor whose sexual proclivities and surgical knowledge have led many to believe that he killed Elizabeth Short. Born august 1, 1951, in san francisco, hodel was the first child of 16-year-old tamar nais hodel and the granddaughter of los angeles doctor and socialite george na's birth father was unknown, and the troubled tamar gave up fauna for adoption. From there, authorities found evidence that led them to believe that Dr. Hodel was also a . When she sought out her birth mother Tamar years later, she found out about her. This is the inverse to the scenario of a convicted criminals family member trying to prove the accused innocent. Simone Y: . Did Dr. Hodel molest Tamar? Take care, Many believe Dr. George Hodel was the killer, thanks to an investigation by Hodel's own son. Thanks for the kind words. George is a monster to an unimaginable degree but the good he gave this earth came in the form of you, your siblings, nieces and nephews. Harnisch has been on a childish rant ever since and keeps promising to publish his book any year now. https://stevehodel.com/2016/10/29/john-huston-peter-viertel-white-hunter-black-heart-friendship-cold-blooded-premeditated-murder/, Huston having been married to my mother, Dorothy Huston Hodel for seven years prior to marrying George Hodel certainly KNEW and was a regular partygoer to the Sowden/Franklin House at the time of dads arrest for Incest and Child Molestation with my halfsister, Tamar in 1949. She gave birth to Fauna in 1951 when she was 16 years old, but immediately gave her up for adoption. He is a major character in 'I Am the Night' and is portrayed by Jefferson Mays. On the cold, sunny morning of Jan. 15, 1947, a woman walking her 3-year-old daughter in the Leimert Park neighborhood found the mutilated corpse of Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia." Thirteen miles away from the crime scene is where many experts believe Short's murderer lived and possibly where he killed her. Steve Hodel has since produced two additional books on the Dahlia case, and several books on the Zodiac killer and other cases, attempting to link them to his father. The first, a six-part limited television miniseries titled, I Am the Night, is a fictionalized drama focusing on the life of Fauna Hodel and her discovery that her grandfather, Dr. George Hill Hodel (played by actor Jefferson Mays) was the prime suspect in the Black Dahlia Murder (in real life, Fauna Hodel never met her grandfather in person, though they had one phone conversation in which George informed Fauna of Tamars residing in Hawaii). five brothers all who were coal miners in PA, and my grandfathers parents Fauna 1 who died in 2017 and Fauna II (originally named Deborah Elizabeth, but changed her name to Fauna as an adult.) The reason being that her mother Dorothy Anthony Barbe Hodel was originally from Portland, Oregon and married a symphony conductor from that city. [3] He was forced to leave the university after one year, due in part to a sex scandal involving a professor's wife. Yes, the family dynamics have been difficult for me. Fauna's strange story of Fauna Hodel starts in Reno, Nevada, when a woman offered Jimmie Lee Faison a child in the bathroom of a casino. He had no part in the naming. Mind yourselves. 3: Media Television/Radio [2][4] He was also prone to taking temporary lovers; a witness later suggested such a relationship between Hodel and Short.[4]. My Irish roots are on my maternal grandfathers side. While I provide much of what I believe to be the motive and crime signatures to his crime, (the method for his madness) separate from that is: physical evidence connecting the crime scene to the body dump location (cement sacks), police tape-recorded admissions and confessions to multiple murders, including Dahlia, as well as police payoffs and to performing abortions, police reports documenting they knew and dated each other prior to the murder, handwriting expert analysis confirming authorship of the Avenger Letters were written by GHH, four top original law enforcement officers independently corroborating each others statements that the case was solved and Dr. George Hodel did it; witness statements connecting him to the crime, and on and on. Just seeing things from both sides. Yet, it very much is. Killed her. And, of course, 95% of the material in the IATN miniseries is fictional. This author suggests your account of your father as The Black Dahlia murderer is nothing more than a series of endless lies. trying to take advantage of a sensational case. Only source on it is Ancestry.com I understand this story is a part of your history (and it sounds like your childhood was difficult in many ways) so it gives me pause to describe it as a captivating and fascinating mystery. However, suspicion of Hodel was not publicly known until decades later. Copyright 2023 Steve Hodel. Hi Steve, Written by Sheila Weller. No harm came to either of them so the letter remained unreported and in the family's possession for 70 years until discovered and read by Martin's granddaughter. To this day a part of me loves the Dr. Jekyll, the good doctor, the man who gave me being and whose blood flows through my own. However, Fauna never knew her grandfather, as her mother, Tamar Hodel, gave her up for adoption in 1951, four years after the Black Dahlia's murder, when Tamar was only 16. Hodel was effectively a polygamist: in the late 1940s, around the time of the deaths of Spaulding and Elizabeth Short, Hodel was living with "Dorero" and their three children; his first legal wife Dorothy Anthony and their daughter Tamar; and, at times, his original common-law wife, Emilia, mother of Hodel's eldest child (by that time an adult). Ive wondered about her for years, but didnt know who or where to ask. In the summer of 1949, the 14-year-old moved into the Franklin Avenue house. Steve, Steve, Best, Steve, Do you think Dr. Hodel had anything to do with Jean Spanglers disappearance? I have recently re-listened to your nieces podcast. [3] She spent her formative years not knowing her name or biological parentage.[4][1]. I started out convinced my father would be incapable of committing such a crime and was sure I would be able to clear him of any suspicion. So many suffer for others wrongdoings. I remember reading about her daughters being so glad that her story was finally going to be told on screen after Faunas passing and I was truly disappointed when I finally watched IATN. thanks, (On his blog site Harnisch informs his readers that he hasnt and doesnt read my books.), My father had a total lack of empathy for anyone. Earlier we hear the question, Does your husband know youre here? So, Im guessing she was slain, body disposed of like many of the other victims and her husband likely made a Missing Report on his wife, and she became just another lost/missing report in LA which was known as, The Port of Missing Persons. Born on October 10, 1907, George Hill Hodel Jr. was raised in Los Angeles, California by his parents, George Sr. and Esther Hodel, who were of Russian Jewish ancestry. I have not read your books (yet) as I just stumbled onto your site after googling about the I am the night series after recently watching it. Hodel was effectively a polygamist: in the late 1940s, around the time of the deaths of Spaulding and Elizabeth Short, Hodel was living with "Dorero" and their three children; his first legal wife Dorothy Anthony and their daughter Tamar; and, at times, his original common-law wife, Emilia, mother of Hodel's eldest child (by that time an adult).