{forgive me, Im not trying to flippantly insult your late father. I remember she never came back and we all wondered why. The reason being that her mother Dorothy Anthony Barbe Hodel was originally from Portland, Oregon and married a symphony conductor from that city. In 1951, Fauna Hodel, the white daughter of a prominent California family, was given away at birth to a young black woman who worked as a restroom attendant in a Nevada casino. 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. 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 Hodel. Dawn: Yes, Dangerous Friends is an excellent read and very well written by screenwriter, Peter Viertel, one who KNEW. Also, what other crimes did he commit not mentioned or found by me? Surely they made links between the imagery? In 1947 just months after murdering Elizabeth Short, George told her to name the doll Elizabeth. Yes, I am aware of the photo and am conviced it was taken by my father, just before daybreak at the scene to immortalize his surreal masterpiece. See link discussing it here. Steve. five brothers all who were coal miners in PA, and my grandfathers parents My Irish roots are on my maternal grandfathers side. boarding on being in love. This meant that Dr. Hodel could have been both Fauna's father and grandfather. I am sure Tamar had different stories for different people, so what is the truth of it? 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. "Things could not get any more weird . or so we thought," Gentile said of the situation. I just have one question.if you were able to speak to your father today, what (if anything) would you say to him? They might meet for dinner on rare occasions. In 1961, at 17, Phillips followed Hodel to San Francisco, where her friend bought her a fake ID and a black cocktail dress, taking her to clubs to meet comedians like Lenny Bruce and Dick Gregory. I am too busy working on active cases." Included in the letter was the fact that LAPD, after being informed that "GH" knew victim Springer, brought "GH" in to be "grilled about the Springer murder." If I think about your father at length, I feel deeply uneasy. They share photos with them on social media, like the above photo with their uncle Love, and frequently write about the importance of family. It was re-published in 2019 by Graymalkin Media, including an eight-page photo insert from Hodel's personal collection. Hodel attended South Pasadena High School, graduated at age 15 and entered California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. That was created from the fictional mini-series, I Am The Night which is 95% fiction. I have seen it reported in at least two different places that he chose the middle name, but that never made sense to me. Do you happened to know a relative by the name Starr Hodel? However disgusting and disturbing A Serbian Film might be, I think there are some striking parallels between the madness of the main antagonist and George Hodel, so I encourage you to watch the preview and read the Wikipedia article. Soon after, the father and daughter were. Thank you. Only source on it is Ancestry.com Thank you for telling your story! ), https://stevehodel.com/2019/05/31/the-hollywood-reporter-perpetuating-the-myth-tnt-executives-continue-to-remain-silent-on-the-fact-they-obtained-dna-analysis-proving-george-hodel-is-not-biological-father-of-fauna-hodel/. So, stay tuned. The viewing/listening/reading public needs to know what is FACT and what is FICTION. Much Love, Uncle Steve. From there, authorities found evidence that led them to believe that Dr. Hodel was also a . She had gone to her father at age 12 and asked him to name her doll for her. If so, I want to believe that wherever she is, she now knows the truth. His Hollywood residence was electronically bugged by an 18-man DA/LAPD task force between February 15 and March 27, 1950. I know he had But, now, with all the publicity first with the I Am The Night fictional miniseries followed by the podcast, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia I have been called upon to keep it real. (The only reason I agreed to do the interviews on the national television shows.) [citation needed], Hodel died of breast cancer at age 66 on September 30, 2017. Killed her. Fauna 2 changed her name from Deborah to Fauna I believe to honor Fauna I and because her mother, Tamar always expressed a fondness for her unknown long ago adopted first child. 4. I read Black Dahlia Avenger back in 2008 and I loved itI couldnt put it down. So, very possible she was at that school prior to coming down for the fateful events that occurred in the Summer of 49? Hi Layla, George Hill Hodel, Jr. was an American physician who was considered as prime suspect in the murder of an American woman named Elizabeth Short. Im sure it wasnt easy for you to figure out what your father was.. Tamar responded with a photo of herself with her four other children, whom she had after giving Fauna up for adoption daughter Elizabeth (who was also called Fauna II) and sons Peace, Love, and Joy. In 1961, at 17, Phillips followed Hodel to San Francisco, where her friend bought her a fake ID and a black cocktail dress, taking her to clubs to meet comedians like Lenny Bruce and Dick. I appreciate, more than you know, your quest. Thankyou! He asked her if GHH was her father, and other prurient questions. Hard to have a conversation with a serial killer/psychopath and or to get any straight answers from him. [4] In February 2019, it was announced that Gentile and Pecoraro were producing a podcast, Root of Evil, which delves further into the book, the miniseries adaptation, and their family history. 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. Family dynamics are so complex, and I thought my family was the archetype of dysfunction. In the first episode of their I Am the Night companion podcast, Root of Evil, they featured a recording of their mother talking about when she first met Tamar and her brothers and sister in Hawaii. I admire you for uncovering all this and for answering everyone here. [5] Two witnesses to the alleged abuse testified at the trial. DuJour reports that Tamar eventually moved to Hawaii with Debbie (who changed her name to Fauna-Elizabeth), and had three sons. I am impressed with your ability to respond to each and every person who has left a note for you thats a rarity. A third recanted her earlier testimony and refused to come forward, with one theory being that Hodel threatened her into silence. My roots on my mothers side go back to County Donegal, Ireland. Tamar Hodel . Wish you a healthy new year. See BDA II (2014 ed. Suzi F: No, not really. [8], Hodel spent much of the 2000s as a motivational speaker, talking about racial equality and human rights. : Fauna Hodels father was an unnamed White Male Italian American in San Francisco who gave Tamar a bunch of alcoholic drinks then raped her when she was 15. They corroborate your findings surely its more than bad PR? Grandfather, REALLY twisted her mind & values. I expect you would have Mr. Burns go back and edit out all the live footage that clearly demonstrated and used the real-life 1920s and 1930s racist references to lynchings and the use of Nigger and Negro from the script. A September 2006 episode of Cold Case Files,[7] hosted by Bill Kurtis, illustrates the mixed reaction to Steve Hodel's hypothesis as outlined in his first book, Black Dahlia Avenger (2003). 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. (Thirteen of these crimes were originally investigated and believed serially connected by the San Diego Sheriff's and Police Departments back in the 1930s, but a suspect was never identified.) Hodel, the younger's investigation presents four (4) potential crimes committed in the 1920s and nineteen (19) crimes believed committed in the 1930s. Hi steve 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. [9][10], In February 2019, the eight-episode podcast, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia, produced by Cadence 13 in conjunction with TNT, premiered. Hello, Mr Hodel. I had the idea that George was her father. 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. If nobody is calling you or those you love crackers, then you can see why negro is offensive you disrespectful mutant. The only way to understand and see how it all fits together is to read all of the books, which are in fact, one ongoing investigation, each adding a significant amount of new evidence to the previous investigation. Assume you are referring to the below paragraph. Outraged by the audacity of their daughter and the stigma attached to a mixed-race child within their midst, her mother quickly arranged to have the baby permanently given away to Jimmie Lee, a black maid in a Nevada casino. Thank you for clarifying. 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. [2][4] He was also prone to taking temporary lovers; a witness later suggested such a relationship between Hodel and Short.[4]. The handwritten envelope read, "In case of Margaret Ellen's or Glenna Jean's Death" and was initialed "WGM"; the letter was written out of fear that one or both of his teenage daughters might be killed. Oz/Phil(?) Best, Steve, Thank you for your ceaseless commitment to the truth, Steve. Tamar Hodel, the daughter in that 1949 case, tells a story that supports the notion that her physician father killed the secretary. George Hodel's lawyer ran an all-out smear campaign against Tamar, calling her a promiscuous, incorrigible, pathological liar, and the physician was acquitted. But, no relationship and he went out of his way to avoid any contact with Tamar. Ive wondered about her for years, but didnt know who or where to ask. I just watched the episode of Zak on the Black Dahlia murder with Fauna. One question I cant get out of my mind: Did anyone ever determine who may have been screaming during the police recording? My story is very similar. She never achieved her goal there at that time. They can't prove it now. They follow the kids to the house and low and behold..out comes Tamar. But things may get even more complicated for her when she discovers Tamar had other children after giving her up for adoption. 1 podcast ranking" in the United States. The podcast also features audio from old interviews with Hodel's biological mother Tamar (who died in 2015), as well as George Hodel's son Steve (Fauna's uncle), who has claimed his father was . Image courtesy of TNT. He had no part in the naming. Steve Hodel, George's son, even claims his father was the Zodiac Killer. Keelie K: It just seems like itd be difficult to do the things youve insisted he did if the man understood the nature of love and had his humanity intact} In the 1930s, he was legally married to Dorothy Anthony, a fashion model from San Francisco; they had a daughter, Tamar. Share this: Twitter Facebook Email Print Reddit Tumblr Loading. Fauna naci cuando Tamar tena diecisis aos. As Tamar revealed to DuJour, Fauna was the product of a sexual assault. Regards. Tammy: 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. See blog on it HERE. Thanks for the kind words. She even addressed Steve Uncle, Not sure the reference, but it may have been from Deborah aka Fauna II? Another book, an autobiography by a daughter of Tamar Hodel who was given up for adoption, is the inspiration for a fictionalized drama mini-series about the Black Dahlia murder by director Patty Jenkins, scheduled to air in 2019. . Shock, anger, hatred, and now just a terrible feeling of sadness for his undeniable psychopathy and the recognition he was in truth a real life Jekyll and Hyde. 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). The structure, built in 1926 by Lloyd Wright (son of the noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright), has since been registered as a Los Angeles historic landmark. Tamar NOT GEORGE named her first daughter Fauna after a Robinson Jeffers poem just as her father had named her Tamar after a poem by Jeffers. No, never did ID that victim. Cath. Despite Fauna's light skin and blue eyes, Tamar claimed her father was black. Geraldine M or Martha J: She gave birth to Fauna in 1951 when she was 16 years old, but immediately gave her up for adoption. Craig: Thanks for the kind words. Yes, the surrealists of that day, specifically, Man Ray, Duchamp and William Copley KNEW at least after the fact, and acknowledged it in their later artworks. Plot. I just wish we knew more about stopping these crimes before they start. He had impregnated the woman and wanted to raise their child together, but she refused. She stated she wanted to be involved in the seance with the intention of having the medium free any spirits of victims remaining in house. Now, in the upcoming Feb. 25 episode, Fauna and Jay will journey to Hawaii to find her. Inka: At the same time, I would caution against using the expression you people. https://stevehodel.com/2019/04/12/director-screenwriter-david-lynch-reveals-new-old-clue-to-black-dahlia-investigation-in-dinner-with-john-john/, Sehr geehrter Herr Hodel Wishing to distance the family from both George Hodel's trial and Tamar Hodel's alleged interracial romance, Tamar's mother arranged for a black woman to adopt the child. Best, Steve. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Deborah is Tamars daughter, my niece fathered by Folksinger Stan Wilson, who changed her name to Fauna II some years later. Yes, Im well aware of Mr. Harnischs derogatory comments over the past two decades. PLEASE CORRECT. Hi Steve, Daughter of George Hill Hodel, and Dorothy Grace Anthony Barbe (17 April 1911 - 12 October 1995). Ive just finished the podcast, havent watched the miniseries Nor do I intend to . If this is true, it astounds me that he had a close enough relationship with her to name her child. Mother of Tamar Nais Hodel. So many suffer for others wrongdoings. 5: Surgeon As far as Tamar and Faunas biological father. Its generally meant to group people together often based on stereotypes and ignorance, to other. In the evening, a cook shot himself in the head while inside his hotel room after failing to reconcile with his wife and child. He was planning his own book naming a Dr. Walter Bayley as the killer and has been promising his readers to publish the proofs for the past twenty-four years. Then I read the word negro, and now Im done. Were doing okay I wish yours had acted sooner.. ( my sister and her family ), Olivia P: Sometimes you have to heal the best way you know how and your feelings are very valid. He was a musical prodigy as a child and performed as a solo pianist in several concerts at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. I just listened to the podcast. My mother was similar and I suspect there was some atleast emotional incest in her past. The name of the school St. Helens Hall never came up in any of my conversations with Tamar, but it is certainly possible. Clearly, his role as Noah Cross was an indication and I believe a definite reference to what he knew, though, in real life, George was not the father of his granddaughter by way of his sexual relations with his fourteen-year-old daughter, Tamar. Hi Steve, was the Franklin house where the black Dahlias murder supposedly occurred ever tested with luminol or searched for any DNA? Two years before Fauna was even born, Tamar. Springer was garroted on June 13, 1949, just two blocks from where Short's body was found in 1947.[9][10]. 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. No, not easty for sure. [7], Hodel had two children, Yvette Gentile and Rasha Pecoraro. I was speechless listening to the part about your discovery of the receipts for the concrete and fertilizer. He had no part in the naming. In July 2018, Sandi Nichols of Indianapolis, Indiana, while going through her recently deceased mother's personal effects, discovered a "Dying Declaration Letter" written by her grandfather, W. Glenn Martin, dated October 26, 1949. I Am The Night airs Mondays at 9 p.m. Tamar's testimony was perceived as contradictory and attention-seeking. Fauna in the hope of finding some answers about who she is, Jay hoping to find answers about the Hodel story he wrote about that ruined his career. Wishing you and yours continued health in the very difficult times. This started up again when she married my father Stan Wilson. Thank you so much for sharing your deeply personal story with us. The blogs go back more than a decade. [9] [10] I was wondering if you are aware of the photo taken of Elizabeth Shorts crime scene that was seemingly taken at night which, presumably would suggest it was the killer who took the photo as she was found in the morning? https://stevehodel.com/2015/10/19/tamar-nais-hodel-dies-at-80-in-honolulu-hawaii/, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ddwrbcMmzlc, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film, https://stevehodel.com/2016/10/29/john-huston-peter-viertel-white-hunter-black-heart-friendship-cold-blooded-premeditated-murder/, https://stevehodel.com/2019/04/12/director-screenwriter-david-lynch-reveals-new-old-clue-to-black-dahlia-investigation-in-dinner-with-john-john/, Sad, Sad, Sade-The Surrealists Divine Marquis and Publication of his Writings in 1904 The 120 Days of Sodom or the School of Libertinage was the Probable Inspiration for Many of Dr. George Hill Hodels Serial Murders, Malcolm Hillgartners Audiobook Narration of The Early Years Part II The Further Serial Crimes of George Hill Hodel M.D. Now Available (Includes Downloadable Copy of Full Text and Graphics), Kelvin Kelly Hodel- My Irish Twin Brother-A Short Introduction and Bio on His Remarkable Life, Inference Poem Written and Published By 18-Year-Old George Hodel Describes Himself as Conceived in Sin..Somber Skys Darkened Dismally, and I Was Born, New Evidence In 1949 Suspected Black Dahlia Murder of Victim Lucille Hodges-Hannibal Lector Meets LA Confidential in Chinatown.
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