All Things Morbid

We have a re-do of our darling father-son pair, Steve and George Hodel. Now Janice Knowlton and her papa George Knowlton, take center stage.

Janice wrote up her theory that her dad was supposedly the culprit of one of the most grisly murders ever in her 1995 book, ‘Daddy was the Black Dahlia Killer‘.

Talk about a killer name.

Hehe.

Okay! So now that I have paid my dues to the god of dad jokes and have become a pile of goo on the floor because of embarrassment, [Don’t worry, figuratively, not literally- no mess for the janitors to clean up] let’s see what other important\interesting stuff there is to make fun of, yeah?

So, [imagine me rubbing my hands together in an evil fashion] as Janice wrote in her book, she had started to remember things that happened to her as a child- memories she believed she suppressed in the late 80s. Her father had died quite a bit before this, but Janice seemed to remember a disturbing memory- a memory of which the contents were of her father murdering a young woman Janice knew as ‘Aunt Betty’.

Suspicious, right?

Janice wrote on to claiming that she saw Elizabeth Short being beat to death by her father with a claw hammer in their family home in Westminster, California. And that her father forced her to accompany him as he disposed of the body.

Wow. It sure is a very detailed theory. Sort of.

But all of this, based on just a suppressed memory? With no solid evidence?

Seems more like a stretch to me.

Janice’s step-sister seemed to believe that too.

Even said that Janice’s book was ‘trash.’

Even though the L.A Police were aware of Janice’s claims, they didn’t follow up on it. Which, with the results they were getting with the case….well, I would take every theory I could get.

So besides commenting on how the police did such a great job with the investigation of the Black Dahlia case, what else do we have?

John P. St. John, – What a name by the way – an LAPD homicide detective said, ‘”The things she is saying are not consistent with the facts of the case,” to the Los Angeles Times in 1991.

Even with all this hate, Janice and her co-author, Michael Newton, argued that there was evidence tying George Knowlton to Elizabeth Short. Like, they claimed that the police had a suspect called ‘George’ – George Hodel, anybody?- who drove a tan car. Just like George Knowlton.

And, guess what?

A man who dated one of Short’s roommates -Congrats!- said that he met a man named ‘Georgie’, -Really?- who’s interests and background information eerily matched George Knowlton.

Woah

Okay, so this one is a bit more…far-fetched than the other, but don’t you see the potential?

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I will be back with another post about a red-haired suspect who was a taxi driver- and if you have watched the British Sherlock on BritBox with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, you know that taxi drivers are suspicious…and are serial killers with a creepy boss called Jim Moriarty.

Right…..

Don’t die, wonderful viewers- but if you do, have your ghost send me the details so I can write about it.

Cos that’s how people say goodbye now-a-days.