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Noir Fans, Mark Your Calendars
Among the events scheduled for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (April 20-21), you may especially enjoy a panel moderated by Patt Morrison titled “The Real L.A. Noir,” featuring...
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The Real L.A. Noir – Tomorrow at The Times Festival of Books
Among the events scheduled for this weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, you may especially enjoy a panel moderated by Patt Morrison titled “The Real L.A. Noir,” featuring reporters Andrew...
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Black Dahlia: Soil Test Results From Dr. George ‘Evil Genius’ Hodel’s...
And in case anyone thinks that we have forgotten: No, nothing has been announced about the purported tests performed on soil from Dr. George “Evil Genius” Hodel’s purported murder HQ. I think it’s safe...
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Marya Marco — Found on EBay
This photo of Marya Marco from “City Beneath the Sea” has been listed on EBay. You may recall that Marco came forward and identified herself as one of the women in photos released by Steve Hodel....
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Black Dahlia: What Is the Address of the Crime Scene?
I received a query yesterday from someone at Los Angeles magazine wanting to know the address on South Norton Avenue where the body of Elizabeth Short was found. The crime scene is usually given as...
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Black Dahlia: Hodel Murder House Soil Samples? You Must Be Kidding!
You may recall the pop media frenzy back in February that “Buster the wonder dog” had found “something” at the Sowden House that was possibly, maybe, kind of, perhaps, sort of, related to the Black...
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Black Dahlia — L.A. Magazine Gets It Wrong
The Black Dahlia crime scene in Leimert Park gets a visit from Denise Hamilton for Los Angeles magazine. Los Angeles magazine does its “first-ever” crime issue. I’m curious about several statements...
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Black Dahlia: About Your ‘New’ Theory on the Killer
Every so often, I get emails or phone calls from people who want to share their Black Dahlia theories with me. I am a patient man. I always listen to what they say and I always read their emails. EVEN...
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Black Dahlia: Still Waiting for Test Results on Soil From George ‘Evil...
Feb. 3, 2013: “Soil samples were taken and results are expected next week,” according to Christine Pelisek in the Daily Beast. We’re still waiting.
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Black Dahlia: New ‘Evidence’ in George ‘Evil Genius’ Hodel Franchise
Black Dahlia breakthrough! Let us suppose that there was a mathematician. A retired mathematician who once taught at a major university, who published and received tenure, and retired as a...
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Black Dahlia and ‘Double Indemnity’– KCET Gets It Way Wrong
Is it really possible to write about the film “Double Indemnity” without mentioning Raymond Chandler, who collaborated on the screenplay, or James M. Cain, who wrote the book that was the basis for...
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The ‘Masked Marvel Murder’– Part 12
The 1942 marriage of Greta Keller and David G.G. Bacon, Albany Times-Union, Sept. 14, 1943, courtesy of Steven Bibb. I have spent far more time than I intended on the “Masked Marvel Murder” and not...
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Blogging the Wolfe Book — Seven Years Later
Note: In 2006, I devoted a daily blog to fact-checking Donald Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files” on a molecular level. The project was so time-consuming – and “Dahlia Files” is such junk – that I...
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Black Dahlia: George Hodel — Soil Samples at the Sowden House: FAIL
Saturday was, in case you had forgotten, the one-year anniversary of Buster the Wonder Dog’s frolic at the Sowden House in a search for evidence to link Dr. George “Evil Genius” Hodel to the Black...
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Matzo Brawl!
Note: This is a post I wrote in 2006 for the 1947project and I’m reposting it for newer readers. Nov. 29, 1907 Oh Those Shriners: Recall, if you will, the grisly train wreck that killed a large number...
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Today is Jan. 15 — Trim Your Roses
Today is Jan. 15, and the Daily Mirror marks the anniversary of Elizabeth Short’s death by pruning back the roses.
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Flo Ash — The ‘Cutest Little Nudist’— Gets a Divorce
Jan. 26, 1944: “Flo Ash” is one of my favorite names from 1940s Los Angeles. In 1940, she sued the Florentine Gardens and producer Nils T. Granlund over use of the nickname “Cutest Little Nudist.”
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Black Dahlia and the Cecil Hotel — Another Good Story Ruined
I don’t know how this nonsense gets started. There is nothing to show that Elizabeth Short ever set foot in the Cecil Hotel, as claimed by KABC-TV Channel 7. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear: No, this is...
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1944 in Print — Life Magazine, Jan. 31, 1944
Jan. 31, 1944: The cover photo shows Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, G.C.B., chosen as Gen. Eisenhower’s deputy commander for the invasion of Europe. The featured movie is “Lifeboat” and...
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