1. New information presented in the past few weeks claims that Elizabeth Short was pregnant and this was the motive for her murder. "That the killer removed her uterus post-mortem. " Is this true?
   
2. I have been told you had a career with L.A.P.D. Can you tell me when and where you worked?
   
3. Other books about Elizabeth Short tell us she was incapable of having sex and was a prostitute. Your book doesn't mention this. Why?
   
4. Doesn't your book just offer another theory as to who killed the Black Dahlia? Please comment.
   
5. Why is it that you have not posted any of the crime-scene photographs of Elizabeth Short on your website to help us better understand the crime?
   
6. Some people say the photographs in the album are not Elizabeth Short. I am told even a relative said she didn't think it was her. If that is true, isn't this just a "house of cards"?
   
7. Another Dahlia website describes your book as "preposterous" and "ridiculous." How do you answer your critics?
   
8. Why is it that LAPD never made the connections to the suspect as a serial-killer? I understand that Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, was his only victim.
   
9. Was a suspect car description ever obtained in the Black Dahlia or other murders that could be connected to Dr. George Hodel?
   
10. In Black Dahlia Avenger, you repeatedly use the term, Thoughtprint. Could you provide a definition and does it connote something psychic or intuitive?
    
11. I found reading the L.A.P.D. and District Attorney Transcripts of their bugging of the 1950 Franklin House conversations-- fascinating. Can you tell me how that was done and are any of the cast of characters, heard on the tapes, such as Baron Herringer, the Beat Generation poet, Kenneth Rexroth, or your maid, Ellen, still alive? Are these bugging tapes available?
    
12. In your book you speak of the close relationship between Dr. George Hodel and the Surrealist, Man Ray. Was it personal or professional?
    
13. Others have attacked your credibility relating to your theory that the posing of the body was meant to mimic Man Ray's MINOTAUR which shows the body of a nude woman, cut in half. They question how your father could have seen the Man Ray photograph before the murder?
    
14. My question is, does James Ellroy support your claim to solving the Black Dahlia murder or not? On another website, that theorist quotes an interview from Craig McDonald and claims Ellroy's support is merely "tepid".
    
15. I found the CBS handwriting experts conclusions confusing. Are they saying that the Avenger notes were not written by George Hodel?
    
16. The facial recognition expert doesn't believe the photographs are of Elizabeth Short, and apparently, neither does-James Ellroy. On camera, you said, "I'm 99% convinced they are." Since it no longer matters to the case, why do you insist they are her?
    
17. The program interviewed a woman by the name of Mary, who said she was a childhood friend of Elizabeth Short's. This woman said she didn't believe your theory. Is she a relative of the Black Dahlia?
    
18. CBS' investigative reporter Erin Moriarty said that "L.A.P.D. has a credibility problem" and that apparently some important evidence in the Black Dahlia case has "disappeared." Do you know what is missing?
    
19. I saw your half-sister, Tamar interviewed on 48 HOURS and found her narration of her teenage sexual molestation by adults, and the incest crimes committed by her father, very believable. In reading your book, what I do not understand is, how could Tamar, having been sexually molested by George Hodel, then allow her own teenage daughter to go out with him unattended, thus placing her in harm's way?
    
20. I have read different accountings of the condition of the body. Can you tell me if it was ever definitively established that Elizabeth Short was: 1) strangled like the other victims and 2) If there were cigarette burns to her body?
    
21. Has L.A.P.D. done any investigation into the other murders you claim your father committed? Is there DNA or fingerprint evidence on any of those? Was the Kern Jungle knife used in some of the other crimes?
    
22. You say you didn't know about your father being a suspect in the Black Dahlia murder until you started to investigate the crime in 1999. Tamar knew about it.
    
23. How could it be that she wouldn't or didn't tell her brother who was an LAPD cop?
    
24. Tamar tells the story of when she was 11-years of age, going to her father to ask him to name her doll, and he told her to name it, Elizabeth Ann. You incorrectly use the name ANN in your book?
    
25. I am familiar with most of the Hollywood locations that Elizabeth Short resided during her time in Hollywood. (6024 Carlos, 1611 Orange Dr., 1842 Cherokee). Did your research establish any other Hollywood residences?
    
26. My question has to do with the "Red Lipstick Murder." I'm told the shoe size found at the crime scene is believed to be a man's shoe 6-7. A small man. Doesn't that eliminate your father who was over 6'.
    
27. I am a Man Ray fan and appreciate his art. I take exception to your insinuating that he was a misogynist. He took a lot of beautiful pictures of nude females and that does not make him a sexual pervert.
    
28. Does any handwriting by Elizabeth Short exist? In all of the literature, I have never seen any published.
    
29. My question relates to your half-sister Tamar, and the incest trial. I read articles posted on another website and they talk about how, as a teenager, she was a "pathological liar" (their words, not mine) and should not be believed. A jury found your father "not guilty". Do you still believe he was guilty of incest and molested your 14-year old half-sister?
    
30. Is there anybody from the law-enforcement community that agrees with you, that Dr. George Hodel was the actual killer of, Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia?
    
31. I have read the District Attorney transcripts where Lt. Frank Jemison interviewed your mother. In those reports the police lieutenant say's that he has talked to different people who have identified Elizabeth Short as dating and being with Dr. George Hodel. Do you know who those people are?
    
32. In your book, you say that you don't know why the name Black Dahlia came to you when you thought about the woman in your father's photo album. But, you think it might have been from a television movie you saw about the Dahlia. Is that film available?
    
33. I have seen your father's "Franklin House" on television several times and I think it was featured in a scene from the recently released film, AVIATOR, the story of Howard Hughes. Am I correct?
    
34. In George Hodel's nude photograph the lipstick appears to be smeared on quite heavily. She also looks to be asleep or unconscious, or possibly even dead! Can you comment?
    
35. Today's LAPD detectives maintain that the Black Dahlia murder was a "standalone". They do not agree with your contention that Elizabeth Short was the victim of a serial killer. Why do you?
    
36. Is there any evidence that your father, Dr. George Hodel was ever officially connected with LAPD or ever had any contact with that department?
    
37. I haven't been able to find any old magazine articles covering the original story during the 1940s. Are you aware if there were any published? If so where?
    
38. Other websites report that Elizabeth Short was not in Los Angeles in 1944-1945. I've also read that her family claims the same. Is this true?
    
39. According to most accounts Elizabeth Short was last seen walking out the door of the Biltmore Hotel on January 9, 1947. Is this near Dr. Hodel's office?
    
40. Are you familiar with the name Maurice Clement? Did that name ever come up in your or the DA investigation as a suspect?
    
41. I have sent you a clipping from the Sunday, February 5, 2006 New York Times, that features a long article on the Black Dahlia, the James Ellroy film, and your book. I have two questions. 1) Is Dr. Hodel going to be in the DePalma/Ellroy film and 2) The LAPD detective Brian Carr, that is currently handling the case said in the newspaper, that "there was no DNA because her body was washed clean." Is this true?
    
42. Janice Knowlton wrote a book in 1995 claiming her father killed the Black Dahlia. Did you know her? I read that your half-sister, Tamar knew and spoke with her about the crime.
    
43. I have read all the other books on the Black Dahlia murder and each names a different person as committing the crime. What do you think of these other books and the people they name as the killer?
    
44. Do you have any photographs of the Franklin House before it was modernized? Say from the time you and your family was living there?
    

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1. Many readers have asked for more information regarding my mother, Dorothy Huston Hodel, or "Dorero". "What was she like?" "Was she cruel and abusive?" "What were the "Gypsy years" like with her?"
   
2. What are your thoughts on where the Dahlia murder occurred? You suggest the "Franklin House". Wouldn't the family residence have been the last place your father would have taken her?
   
3. I know you claim your father is listed as a suspect in the secret D.A. Files, but can you show us an actual document from the file that would confirm what you claim?
   
4. In your book, you mention your two brothers, Michael and Kelvin. What happened to them? What do they think about your findings? Do they agree that their father was a serial killer?
   
5. In your book you tell us that as a young officer two of your heroes on LAPD were Chief William Parker and Chief of Detectives Thad Brown. Were there any others?
   

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1. I'm confused on how the LAPD Chief Thad Brown photograph taken with you as a rookie police officer, connects to the Black Dahlia murder. Can you explain it?
   
2. Is your ex-wife KIYO still alive? Do you think she knew about your father and Elizabeth Short? Why was Kiyo's picture still in your father's photo album with Elizabeth Short and other family members?
   
3. What do you think of the other theories and suspects and what about the latest book that say's that gangster Bugsy Siegel and his gang killed Elizabeth Short?
   
4. In your book you tell us that as a young officer two of your heroes on LAPD were Chief William Parker and Chief of Detectives Thad Brown. Were there any others?
   

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1. Could you provide some background information as to why you think the 1949 Mimi Boomhower murder, a Beverly Hills matron, was connected to the other crimes. You say you think it is a category I crime which you define as "extremely strong evidence", but little is known about the murder. I don't think the police ever thought it was connected.
   
2. Is it correct that the Los Angeles D.A. was investigating other crimes that he believed were connected to the Black Dahlia suspect back in 1947?
   
3. I read in the 1950 D.A. reports prepared by Captain Jemison that he interviewed a model by the name of Mattie Comfort and they had a nude photo of her with your father. Did she say that she also knew Elizabeth Short?
   

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1. I've seen references that say your mother, when married to John Huston, was a model and actress. Was she ever in any films? If so, which ones?
   
2. You mentioned that your mother knew and was friends with film-director, Dudley Murphy. Are you aware that Murphy made a 1920s avant-guard film with artist, Fernand Leger and Man Ray in Paris, called- Ballet mecanique?
   
3. Are there any articles from 1947 that claim that a serial killer was operating in Los Angeles? Did the police think so too?
   
4. I see you were in Paris, France in June 2006 at the Pompidou Centre. I assume you gave a talk on your book. Is there a recording available?
   
5. Could you explain Santa Barbara police officer Mary Unkefer's connections to both the 1947 Black Dahlia Murder and the later connections she had with the D.A. investigators and her contact with your father, Dr. George Hodel?
   

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1. You mentioned that some scenes from James Ellroy's L.A. CONFIDENTIAL were filmed inside the Hodel/Franklin House. I didn't see any. Which ones?
   
2. I recently saw a repeat of the 48 HOURS BLACK DAHLIA CONFIDENTIAL show where the expert said she did not believe one of the photos was the same as the photo in your father's album. She said she thought the woman's chin was different. What do you think?
   
3. the facial recognition expertdoesn't believe the photographs are of Elizabeth Short, and apparently, neither does-James Ellroy. On camera, you said, "I'm 99% convinced they are." Since it no longer matters to the case, why do you insist they are her?
   
4. When is your new information coming out? Is this going to be in your second book and are there more murders included in it?
   
5. Are you aware that there exits a reference to the Black Dahlia Murder in the 1950 film noir SUNSET BOULEVARD?
   
6. Other websites say that author James Ellroy does not support your theory or doesn't believe you really solved the murder. Is that true?
   

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1. In your book you have written a chapter called "The Dahlia Myth" where you claim Elizabeth Short was not a prostitute, and that she didn't use drugs. Almost every other writer has portrayed her as just the opposite. Why should we believe your version? Maybe you are just seeing what you want to see?
   
2. The below information is posted on another Dahlia website and the writer, who claims to be an expert and has studied the Dahlia crime for about ten-years, claims the cigarette burns are a MYTH. You say they are FACT. You both can't be right?
   
3. In your book ( page 243 & 250) you make reference to a newspaper article in 1980 where you and your partner solved the Hollywood murder of an actor, Charles Wagenheim. Then your father in a letter to you made mention of his murder saying, "There must be a riddle inside a mystery there too." Did you know Wagenheim was quite a famous old time Hollywood actor?
   
4. Alex Trebek asked this question tonight (21 July 2006) on the JEOPARDY SHOW. Don't know if you knew about it?
   
5. Has your book been sold and translated in other languages? If so, was it well received?
   
6. Is your book available on audio tape?
   

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1. I am a former LAPD police-officer with 28-years service. While I respect your investigation, and think you may well have solved the Black Dahlia murder, still, I cannot believe, nor do I see that you have presented any real evidence that LAPD Chiefs Bill Parker and Thad Brown, or anyone else was involved in a cover-up of the facts. Do you really believe LAPD organized and conspired to keep this information secret and allow your father to go free?
   

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1. Thank you for the tribute to slain LAPD detective Russell Kuster. He must have been a great police officer. Do you have any other photographs of Lt. Kuster?
   
2. In your author photographs I notice you have used ROSCO on the cover of your books. What's his story?
   
3. What do you think about FBI profilers like John Douglas and other "Mind Hunters" who work closely with the police in helping solve and identify serial killers. Do you think they could have profiled and identified your father?
   

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1. I just read in your new CSI and Forensics chapter about, the "Unidentified Man" that supposedly checked into the hotel with Elizabeth Short a few days before her murder. As I understand it you actually identified the man in the photo, and recently talked to him. He told you that he was never in Los Angeles. and the picture shown of Elizabeth Short and him in the newspaper, was taken in Indianapolis, Indiana. Is this true? Do the police know who he is? Did they talk to him? Do they know he was never in L.A.?
   

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1. Lillian Lenorak identified Elizabeth Short as being a girlfriend of your father's and also as being at parties at the Franklin House. Could you explain George Hodel's connection with the policewoman who wrote the letter to LAPD about your father.
   
2. Was your father's home on Franklin Avenue, close to where Elizabeth Short was living in Hollywood?
   

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1. You say that it is a myth that Elizabeth left the Biltmore Hotel and was never seen again until her body was found six days later. I know you list a dozen witnesses in your book as seeing and talking with Elizabeth Short during her supposed "missing week" and that is compelling since many of them knew her. But, did the DA investigators ever find a witness that saw her during that same week?
   

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1. You coined the term "thoughtprints" in your book. Could you elaborate on it?
   

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1. You mentioned a Filipina woman, but did not include her photograph in the book. Was this his ex-wife, Hortensia? Have you identified the other women, "Gloria", in your father's photo album?

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1. I missed last night’s (9/18/06) CNN Anderson Cooper interview with you regarding the Black Dahlia. Is there new information and new evidence?

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1. On August 29, 2006, I viewed the CBS 48 HOURS program, Black Dahlia Confidential, which covered your investigation. The handwriting expert on the show indicated he could not determine if the killer's notes were or were not your father's handwriting. But in the book, your expert said they were the same. Can you explain this contradiction?

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1. 1. Q: In the latest updated and revised paperback edition of your book you have a new chapter called, “New Investigation: Hard Evidence and Forensics.” In that chapter you show forensic photographs and promise to “make them available for better viewing on your website.” Where can these photos be found?
   2. Q: Some of your critics argue that your father was NOT A SURGEON and that only a skilled surgeon could have performed the bisection on the body. They also point out that the source of this information was your own mother when interviewed by the DA investigators said her ex-husband never performed surgery. Any comment?

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1. Did your father keep in contact with the Man Ray’s during their lifetimes? Did they remain friends after leaving the U.S.?

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1. A new book, Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder, has just been published. It seems to go along with your theory that Man Ray and surrealists knew or were involved in the murder. Do you think they were?

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1. In mid-September you appeared on CNN news and said you believe that one of the two photographs in your father’s album was “NOT ELIZABETH SHORT.” I have always believed the two photographs were different women. Is there new evidence to prove this?

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1. Is Elizabeth Short buried back in her hometown, Medford, MA?

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1. Have you seen the Brian De Palma BLACK DAHLIA movie that was just released? What did you think of it?

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1. I have just read the new CSI chapter printed in 2006 and my question has to do with “Mr. Barnes” and the “Unidentified Man” in the strip-photo. I want to be clear on this point. Are you saying the man you interviewed is the same man in the photo, and he is not “Mr. Barnes” or “Ed Burns”? Does LAPD know this? Does Larry Harnisch know this?

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1. Do you have any Franklin House pictures of your family during the year 1950, just before your father left the country?
   
   I saw LAPD detective Brian Carr on television recently and he say’s that you have “an agenda” and that a lot of retired detectives are mad about what you have said about LAPD. Carr said that because there is no DNA evidence the Black Dahlia case cannot and will never be solved.
   
   The following information was forwarded to me by “C.M.”, a Postal Historian expert, who specializes in Military Mail. His knowledge on the little known subject of Military Franking privileges appears to add another circumstantial link –revealing that the mailer of the below Avenger Note was familiar with military practices and procedures, afforded to WW II officers.

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1. I just read that Scarlett Johansson, who is on the cover of this month’s Esquire Magazine [Nov. 2006] as “The Sexiest Woman Alive” and starred in the James Ellroy film, BLACK DAHLIA, read your book and found it “fascinating.” Were you involved in the making of the movie and did you speak with her about the murder?
   
   There is an Ellen DeGeneres commercial running on television for American Express that shows her doing yoga. Is that the Franklin House?

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1. Did the actress, Carol Forman (Spider Woman) actually live at the Franklin House? What years?
   
   Do the court transcripts from the Tamar trial exist? Any records from the incest trial?
   
   Another Black Dahlia theorist on his website claims that the telegram sent to Elizabeth Short from Washington D.C. was sent to her in 1944 and quotes your book [pg. 428] where you say you believe your father sent it in Oct-Dec. 1945. Obviously that is incorrect. How do you answer this?

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1. Q: Do you remember Man Ray? Did you personally have contact with either Man Ray or his wife Juliet after they left Hollywood in 1951?
   
   2. Q: I hear that NEW LINE CINEMA is going to make your book into a film. Have they decided on what actors and director? Do you know when the film will be made? One website in anticipation, is showing a running clock, literally counting the seconds. Their clock shows NEW LINE optioned your book three months ago. (See below)
   
   3. Q: Is it true that bags were found near where Elizabeth's body was found and are believed to be connected to the crime?
   
   4. Q: You mention that you have actual photographs of burn marks inflicted during the sadistic assault of Elizabeth Short. Yet, other Dahlia researchers of long standing, like John Gilmore and Larry Harnisch in their interviews and on their websites claim that, "the burn marks are a myth and do not exist." Who is telling the truth?

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1. Did you identify all of the "Avenger" notes that were mailed in to the police as being written by your father?
   
   2. My question has to do with all the Black Dahlia files and evidence turning up missing. How could LAPD let that happen? Wasn't the evidence secured?

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1. What can you tell me about Dr. Walter Bayley? I have read on other websites that he was a surgeon and a possible new suspect. Did the LAPD or DA ever suspect him?
   
   2. In your book you mention that your father was acquainted with the writer, Henry Miller, and that Miller visited him at your home in Hollywood. Are you aware that Miller was also a good friend of Man Ray?

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1. I read on another website that you have new information that DA investigator, Lt. Frank Jemison acknowledged that he knew your father was the Black Dahlia killer. Is this true?

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1. Has there been any new information on the other serial killings? Personally, I found your investigation into the murder of actress, Jean Spangler very interesting. Any new evidence?
   
   2: A witness described seeing the suspect car at the vacant lot for four minutes at said it was a 1937 black Ford, but your dad drove a 1937 black Packard. How do you explain the difference?

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1. You quote former Black Dahlia case detectives as saying "the case was solved" and further, that they name your father, Dr. George Hodel, as her killer. What is your source on this? If it is true, why didn't they make it public information?

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1. In the DA transcript where they bugged your dad’s house, do you think that your father was actually killing a woman at the Franklin House? Others say was he just pretending because he knew that the police were listening in and tape- recording him?

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1. In an earlier FAQ you mention that your father admitted on the DA transcripts to performing abortions at his downtown clinic. If this is so, it seems like a huge discovery confirming his connections to the LAPD protected abortion ring and Gangster Squad detectives. Comment?

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1. I read that your mother, Dorothy, was a screenwriter, and wrote for the studios. Did she write any well-known scripts?
   
   2: I read your FAQ summary on victim, Jean Spangler and read your connections in your book. I know that LAPD interviewed actor, Kirk Douglas about her, but do you know what film she was in? I haven’t seen it named anywhere?
   
   I have read where some people doubt your claims that your father, Dr. George Hodel and Man Ray were really friends. They also question the authenticity of the Hodel-Man Ray photographs.

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1. I saw a TV show where the LAPD detective Brian Kerr, said he checked out your father and found that he had no surgical experience. Is the detective correct?

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1. You say you believe that Elizabeth Short was killed at your father’s house on Franklin Ave. How could this be possible with the family living there? It doesn’t make any sense.
   
   2: I read that you purchased some original Elizabeth Short, Black Dahlia photographs in auction on EBay, in February, 2003, and paid $7600. Is this accurate? What were the photographs?

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1. Do you think that Man Ray knew or suspected that your father was the Black Dahlia killer?
   
   2: How was Henry Miller connected to your father? Did you meet him at the Franklin House as a young boy?

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1. Q: Do you have any photographs taken at the Valentine St. House and when did you move from there to the Franklin House?
   
   Q: What ever happened to the woman that rode with Officer Mary Unkefer, Lillian Lenorak and Joe Barrett to Santa Barbara? Was she a girlfriend of your father's?
   
   Q: Do you think the investigation and your case against your father hinges on the two photographs? Seems to me what you later discovered about your father is much more important?

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1. Q: Another website points out that your "main claim" connecting George Hodel to Elizabeth Short was the telegram sent from Washington D.C. In your book you said your father sent it to her in 1945, but it was sent in 1944? Any explanation?
   
   Q: I have read everything written on the Black Dahlia Murder and I find that it is nearly impossible to tell the truth from fiction. How did you sort it out in your investigation?
   
   JIM TATREAU, LAPD EX-ROBBERY-HOMICIDE COMMANDER DIES AT 58

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1. Q: I know there is mention in the DA transcripts of your father committing IRS tax fraud, which is overheard by detectives during their stakeout and bugging. Do you have any knowledge of other crimes or thefts committed by your father?
   
   

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1. Q: I recently saw the movie, WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART which is supposedly based on the life of director, John Huston and the making of the film, AFRICAN QUEEN. Did you see the movie? What did you think of it.
   
   

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1. Q: Does author James Ellroy agree with you that Fred Sexton committed the murder of his mother? What about the detective that reworked on the case with Ellroy? Have you met and talked to him about the case? What does he think?
   
   

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1. On a recent visit to authors Mark Nelson and Sarah Hudson Bayliss blogsite, I discovered they had posted a conversational reference to Surrealism which they discovered in their review of the original DA/LAPD surveillance transcripts.
   
   

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1. June 2007 -- 1946 Man Ray portrait of Dr. George Hodel discovered in Harvard University's FOGG ART MUSEUM collection.
   
   

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1. Q: Your book seems to be the only one that claims there was no missing week. You provide names, dates, and times, when Elizabeth Short was seen during that week, but isn’t it possible those people were either sensation seekers, or just simply made an honest mistake?
   
   

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1. Q: There doesn’t seem to be much information on Fred Sexton, who you claim was your father’s accomplice in some of the murders. Any new evidence? I don’t see anything to connect him to any crimes.
   
   

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1. Q: A chronology of Elizabeth Short's movements lists different hotels she lived in. Most are known, but one in new to me. I read on another website that the DA Files indicate, "Elizabeth stayed with her boyfriend, Lt. Gordon Fickling at the Brevort Hotel in Hollywood from Aug. 20-27, 1946." Does this hotel still exist?
   
   

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1. Q: Did Lillian Lenorak tell the DA that she committed perjury to help Dr. Hodel? What ever happened to Dr. Ballard and his assistant Charles Smith, who were arrested for performing the abortion on Dr. Hodel’s daughter?
   
   

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1. Q: I know the Franklin House was recently renovated. Do you have any old photographs showing how it looked when you lived there?
   
   

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1. Q: I have read varying reports on how Elizabeth Short’s body was first discovered. Did the police ever identify and interview the original witness?
   
   

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1. Q: Was your ex-wife, KIYO, a professional astrologer, or did she just dabble in it?
   
   Q: Do you have a favorite book review of BDA?

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1. Q: I recently viewed NBC's television show, BLACK DAHLIA CONFIDENTIAL, and they showed an old 16mm film clip of a bunch of young women riding in a convertible and it said one of them might be Elizabeth Short. Was it really her?

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1. Alex Constance, a 44-year old personal friend and hair stylist to Elizabeth Short in a 1947 police interview two days after her murder, described an earlier incident when he saw the victim picked-up, “on a date” at her Hollywood apartment by a jealous suitor, “that she feared, but was afraid to break up with.” Constance described the boyfriend’s car as a, “1937 black sedan.” (This description fits the car seen at the crime scene and is identical to the car owned and driven by Dr. George Hill Hodel.)

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1. Q: Whatever happened to defense attorney Robert A. Neeb, who with Jerry Giesler represented your father, Dr. Hodel, at his 1949 incest trial?

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1. Q: On a 48 HOURS television show I recently watched, they hired a surgeon to examine the photographs and he said because the body was so skillfully cut in half, it was his belief that the killer was a doctor. Is this true?
   
   Q: You recently showed some photographs of women riding down Hollywood Blvd. in a car on VJ DAY. You speculated one of the girl’s might be Elizabeth Short. Could the car be Dr. Hodel’s? (FAQ 53)

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1. D.A. Investigator Lt. Walter Morgan dies at 92. Morgan was the Black Dahlia Murder's Last Coyote. In 2002, "Old School" detective publicly linked Dr. Hodel to the murder, and confirmed bugging of his private residence and existance of taped transcripts. (see attached)

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1. Q: I read on the Bethshort.com website where you mentioned that George Hodel besides posing the body as the MINOTAUR also cut lacerations on the upper lip to imitate another Man Ray painting, THE LOVERS. I would like to challenge you on that. I’m familiar with the painting and no such markings exist.

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1. Q: I found your chapter on Man Ray and the Marquis de Sade fascinating. Did Man Ray or any of the other surrealists ever mention your father as a friend in their writings?
   
   Q: I know you suspect Elizabeth Short was slain in your father's Franklin House. How close were the other victims to your Hollywood home?

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1. Los Angeles Sheriff's Commander Thomas Vetter (ret.) Black Dahlia interview. Read this respected veteran's fascinating first person account (HE WAS THERE) of what the "old school detectives" said about who murdered Elizabeth Short, and though the case was solved, their reasons why her actual killer was UNTOUCHABLE.

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1. Q: Have the DA transcripts of your father's taped conversations at the Franklin House ever been published?
   (See attached diagrams containing microphone installation, Dr. Hotel's taped statements, and original command officers statements acknowledging "Dahlia Case Solved.")

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1. Q: Do you think Elizabeth Short visited your father at his Franklin House in 1946? Is there any information on this?
   
   Q: I see there is another recent publication, Given: 1' Art 2' Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture (Sussex Academic Press 2007) that apparently supports your theory that the Black Dahlia Murder was connected to Surrealism. Have you read this book?

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1. Life Magazine original coverage on Black Dahlia Murder. Feb. 1947 article focuses on witness Robert “Red” Manley being cleared and returning to his wife. Mar. 1947 article covers the “rash of psychopaths” coming forward with false confessions to the crime.

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1. December 2007 Vanity Fair Magazine -- Major article/interview with singer/actress, Michelle Phillips. In this thirteen-page interview with journalist, Shelia Weller, Michelle shares her personal life, describing the role and prominent influence , Tamar Hodel, her lifelong friend, played in “the early years.” Tamar is also interviewed for the piece. Above is an excerpt focusing on, “The Black Dahlia Heritage”. (SKH Note: The article mentions that Michelle met Tamar “through her brother, who was dating Michelle’s sister.” That was not me, but rather, my brother, Kelvin who as a teenager was dating Michelle’s sister, Rusty.)

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1. I understand you are a twin. What is your brother’s name and what does he think of your book?

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1. Author at a 2000 theatre event with actor Gregory Peck thanks him for a fifty-year-old favor

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1. In reading your book I know your grandparents emigrated from Russia. Were you close to them as a child growing up? What were they like?

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1. In BDA you mention you were involved in the 1981 high-profile LAPD murder investigation of Kazuyoshi Miura, who has recently been arrested by LAPD on a warrant and is awaiting trial in Los Angeles. When will that trial begin?

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1. 63-year-old letters from Dr. George Hodel's ex-patient (First Street V.D. Clinic) provide additional documentation in support of his motive for the1945 barbiturate-overdose murder of his personal secretary, Ruth Spaulding.

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1. Q: How can I get copies of the Black Dahlia FBI files? Did Elizabeth Short have a middle name of Ann?
   
   Q: Can you tell me which women you think were killed by your father and how close were they to where he lived in Los Angeles?
   
   Q: I know that Elizabeth Short and Air Force pilot Matt Gordon were engaged and that he was killed before they could get married. Was she close to his family?

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1. Q: Did the Raymond Chandler movie, THE BLUE DAHLIA come out before or after the murder of Elizabeth Short?
   
   Q: Where exactly in CHINATOWN was your father's office and the Health Department?
   
   Q: I recently saw you on the Discovery Channel MOST EVIL program. Can you tell me what other television shows have been made about your book?

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1. What’s in a name? Depends on who is doing the naming. Here is a Hodel Family anecdote that takes one of my “warm fuzzy” childhood memories and sixty-years later, reveals it for what it really was. The truth being the cold, hard double entendre of a psychopath.

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