Video: If Your Father Was The Black Dahlia Killer, Would You Still Love Him?

The Black Dahlia murder case found Steve Hodel, not the other way around.

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Retired LAPD Homicide Detective and author Steve Hodel visits with Crime Obsession’s Traci Stumpf and exposes a trove of new information surrounding the 1947 murder of the Black Dahlia in Los Angeles. If Hodel’s name is familiar, it is because his father was George Hodel, a prime suspect in the now infamous and particularly brutal Hollywood murder case.

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