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He ties his father to 16 brutal killings of women in Los Angeles between 1943 and 1950, specifically naming Ora Murray, Georgette Bauerdorf, Jeanne French, and Louise Springer.

Hodel states that handwriting examiners in blind comparisons found it "highly probable" that George Hodel authored both the Black Dahlia taunt notes and the Zodiac cryptograms. He also claims his father's violence potentially ended with the death of cabdriver Paul Stine in 1969, the last named Zodiac victim.

Her mutilated, bisected body was found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. She was 22 years old. The remains were drained of blood, her right breast was removed, the body had cigarette burns, the mouth was slashed, and the corpse was posed on paper cement sacks.

Steve Hodel cites George Hodel's UCSF medical school transcripts, which show he completed 766 hours of surgical training, performed 53 operations, and conducted 12 autopsies. He argues the clean bisection of Elizabeth Short's body through the lower lumbar spine without sawing bone matched a standard autopsy method taught in the 1930s.

Hodel is calling for multi-agency cooperation where departments share files and evidence across jurisdictions to obtain confirmed DNA and fingerprint evidence. He argues that agencies need to end "territoriality" and "ego" to solve these crimes that crossed city, county, state, and national borders.

Hodel states that handwriting examiners in blind comparisons found it "highly probable" that George Hodel authored both the Black Dahlia taunt notes and the Zodiac cryptograms.

The seven Zodiac victims listed by Hodel are Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Cecelia Shepard, Bryan Hartnell, and Paul Stine.

Steve Hodel argues that the surgical bisection of Elizabeth Short's body through the lower lumbar spine matches a hemicorporectomy-style cut taught in the 1930s, a technique he claims ordinary killers would not know. Additionally, he states that cement sacks used to pose the body were purchased four days prior for the Hodel family home, and he claims to have found photographs of Short among his father's belongings.

Hodel lists Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Cecelia Shepard, Bryan Hartnell, and Paul Stine as victims murdered by the Zodiac.

He states that his investigation, which began with the goal of proving his father's innocence, led him to follow the evidence to a trail that runs from a vacant Los Angeles lot in 1947 to Northern California’s Zodiac terror. He likens his father to a "wild beast" or a "man-eating tiger loose in a village."

The family home was the Sowden House in Los Angeles.

Hodel cites surgical skill, noting that the Black Dahlia's body was bisected through the lower lumbar spine without sawing bone, a hemicorporectomy-style cut he says matched standard autopsy methods taught in the 1930s. He notes that George Hodel's UCSF medical school transcripts show he completed 766 hours of surgical training, performed 53 operations, and conducted 12 autopsies.