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AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Retired detective says his father killed the Black Dahlia and was the Zodiac

A retired LAPD detective now says his own father was both the Black Dahlia killer and the Zodiac, after 27 years of digging and a new book pressing agencies to test the DNA. Steve Hodel is 85, lives in Birch Bay, Washington, and spent a career solving murders for the Los Angeles Police Department. He […] The post Retired detective says his father killed the Black Dahlia and was the Zodiac appeared first on American Almanac .

A retired LAPD detective now says his own father was both the Black Dahlia killer and the Zodiac, after 27 years of digging and a new book pressing agencies to test the DNA. Steve Hodel is 85, lives in Birch Bay, Washington, and spent a career solving murders for the Los Angeles Police Department. He says he closed more than 300 homicide cases at an 80 percent rate. Then his father died in 1999, a relative mentioned the old man had once been questioned in the Black Dahlia case, and the son set out to clear the family name. What he says he found instead is a trail that runs from a vacant Los Angeles lot in 1947 to Northern California’s Zodiac terror, and beyond. In a new book, The Black Dahlia Murder: Fact vs. Fiction, shared with The US…Open

According to Steve Hodel, what specific Zodiac victims were murdered by his father?
Hodel lists Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Cecelia Shepard, Bryan Hartnell, and Paul Stine as victims murdered by the Zodiac.
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How does Steve Hodel describe the findings of his 312-month investigation regarding his father?
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."
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What was the name of the residence in Los Angeles where the Hodel family lived?
The family home was the Sowden House in Los Angeles.
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What specific medical evidence does Steve Hodel cite to link his father to the Black Dahlia murder?
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.
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To whom does Steve Hodel attribute the murder of Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia?
He attributes the murder to his late father, Dr. George Hill Hodel. Hodel argues that his father killed Elizabeth Short and may have been responsible for as many as 50 victims across five decades.
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Who is the retired LAPD detective making claims about his father being the Black Dahlia killer and the Zodiac?
Steve Hodel, who is 85 years old and lives in Birch Bay, Washington. He had a career solving murders for the Los Angeles Police Department, claiming to have closed more than 300 homicide cases at an 80 percent rate.
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