Welcome to the ninth session of the Black Dahlia Book Club!
I finally got tired of talking about George Hodel and Steve Hodel (at this point, I know Steve’s monologues from memory) so I decided to spend some time looking at portrayals of the murder and the investigation. I consider myself first and foremost a historian of the Black Dahlia case, and think it’s important to examine the source material in detail to emphasize the challenges of researching the murder of Elizabeth Short.
The high bidder on an inscribed first edition of Michael Connelly’s“The Narrows is Kostadin Hadzhibanov. Congratulations! The book will be on its way once I receive proof of a donation in the winning amount to a charity of your choice in memory of Elizabeth Short.
Coming soon: The auction of a signed first edition of Michael Connelly’s The Drop with the winning bid going to a charity of one’s choice in memory of Elizabeth Short
Next month: Black Dahlia Ask Me Anything, October 6 on YouTube.
Links:
Joan Renner: “James Ellroy Presents Elizabeth.”
LAPD Public Records Request on the Black Dahlia (pdf).
In this session, I discussed the Los Angeles County coroner’s files and the LAPD files in the Black Dahlia case. I also discussed: Continue reading
I am auctioning for charity a signed, inscribed first edition of Michael Connelly’s The Narrows starting today and ending with the Black Dahlia Book Club on September 15. The winner will donate the bid amount to a charity of their choice in memory of Elizabeth Short. Send me proof of the donation, and the book will be in the mail.
There are some obstacles that even love cannot overcome, or so David Everett has discovered. The 30-year-old mechanic is in critical condition at Torrance General Hospital after shooting himself in the head and neck in despondency over his frustrated love for his 17-year-old first cousin Janet. And yes, she lives in a trailer park.
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Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
I recently made an investigation of the tattoo shops here and the persons who operate them, for a friend of mine, whose young son, age 13, had been marked up like a circus freak by a so called (professor) 
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