All Things Morbid

Hello people who read my blog!- Which, sadly, is not that many. I write here today the final post of the Black Dahlia trio, Suspects! Like a messed up version of Jeopardy! There was 7 main persons of interest that our dear LAPD and FBI had. We’ll start one at a time. And when I say one at a time, I mean it. To further draw this mystery out, I will be posting one post per suspect. And, you guessed it, this post will be about George Hodel.

George Hodel:

Steve Hodel, George Hodel’s son, suspected his father was the Black Dahlia killer after he found a tiny photo album containing two photos of a dark-haired woman with an uncanny resemblance to Short while cleaning out his father’s house, who had passed away. After finding this, Steve decided to do more investigating on the subject. He found some pretty compelling evidence.

George Hodel was a doctor; he would have had the skill to cut Short in half. His handwriting also seemingly matched the cards to the handwritten notes to the newspapers and Police. And, the cherry on top, he had purchased concrete bags shortly before Short’s death, which matched to bags at the crime scene. And with this much evidence against him, how was he not arrested!!!???? …..Just wait. It gets better.

And I mean the story gets better, not the blog, because the blog is already the best it can be, right? Right?

…The blog will also get better. I hope.

So aside from the clear show of teenage anxiety and self-consciousness that you all got front seats to, what else is new? [ But let’s be honest people. My anxiety has always been here. We’re actually pretty good friends. Sometimes we go grab ice cream together….]

LITERATURE!!!

Yes, literature. Okay, so what I’m talking\writing about is actually really old, like 22 years old. Like when the dinosaurs were alive, right? I mean, I wasn’t even alive back then, in the dark, dark ages of 2003. So yeah, this information isn’t strictly ‘new’, but humor me. Steve Hodel published all this information in a book he wrote- the Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story

But that’s not where this ends.

No, not even close. Close is over here, and being close is over there, and close to being close is-

Anybody get the reference? No? Okay…

So because we human beings are paranoid little things, one of us decided to fact-check Steve’s story. This happened to be Los Angeles Times– Because we love rip-offs of the NYT- columnist Steve Lopez. According to the Guardian, Lopez asked for more information of the Black Dahlia murder. They sent over a couple of old files. And guess what he found?

George Hodel was an actual suspect. The police had suspected him. And they did not arrest him. And yes, it makes for a weak case. Just some cement bags the same brand as the one used to transport the body, handwriting that matches the handwriting of the alleged killer, photo graphs of the victim when there was no clear connection between them….A pretty weak case. Definitely. So weak.

But the next evidence brought it all together. As Lopez dug deeper, he found out that the police had bugged George Hodel’s home- Yes we are still talking about George Hodel; I do realize that I haven’t mentioned him by name in a while- in the 1950s. On Feb 19, 1950, the recording device picked up a woman’s scream. Later it recorded George – Cause now we’re on a first name basis because I’ve spent so much writing about him- talking to another person, and George said, “Realize there was nothing I could do, put a pillow over her head and cover her with a blanket. Get a taxi. Expired 12:59. They thought there was something fishy. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. Killed her. “

Then, as if that wasn’t suspicious enough, George added, “Suposin’ I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn’t prove it now. They can’t talk to my secretary any more because she’s dead.”

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It was like he was thinking, ‘Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious….

He was suspicious. Very suspicious. And yet….Imagine I say something wise here.

So, what have we learned? Anxiety makes a good friend to get ice cream with, this blog will get better allegedly, and……Oh! George Hodel may very well be a murderer.

Thank-you for reading, and the next potential murderers -Yes, murderers, plural- I’ll be writing about is a possible love interest, and a henchman.

Have a good day, and remember: Make it Morbid.

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