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.
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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