One thing you know about evil sociopaths is that they like to treat impoverished people of color. Yep. That’s what evil sociopaths do, fer sure.
The website MEAWW.com has published a brief interview with actor Jefferson Mays, who portrays Dr. George Hodel in the upcoming TNT mini-series “I Am the Night.” The article, by Mangala Dilip, calls George Hodel “one of the evilest men [in] history.”
Really? (Evilest? Evidently MEAWW doesn’t have editors).
Now for some tiresome facts. Dr. George Hodel specialized in public health and treated poor blacks who lived in the segregated neighborhood called Bronzeville, formerly Little Tokyo, which was empty because the residents had been put in internment camps during World War II.
George Hodel never had a surgical practice in Los Angeles – he didn’t have the essential accreditation and thus no hospital was open to him.
He was also not a “Hollywood gynecologist,” as claimed in “I Am the Night.”
And there is zero evidence. Nothing. To connect him to any homicide, not the killing of Elizabeth Short nor anyone else. In fact, there is nothing to show George Hodel even knew Elizabeth Short. Nothing.
The only person to accuse George Hodel of murder is his son Steve Hodel — and anybody that repeats Steve’s claims. Independent research cannot verify even one killing and certainly not that he was a serial killer allowed to run rampant in Los Angeles because he knew about the sex lives of L.A.’s ruling elite.
“One of the evilest men [in] history?” I mean really.
There is actually someone named Fauna Hodel? The name Fauna was funny in Steinbeck’s story, but damn, who would actually name their kid Fauna?
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If you read “Black Dahlia Avenger” (and I suggest you don’t) you’ll find that Tamar Hodel had two daughters and named them both Fauna. Seriously.
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Was there ever a DNA and/or blood test for Fauna, alleged incestuous daughter of Tamar and George Hill Hodel? I see that this parentage is often asserted as fact, but uncertain if there is established basis for it. My instinct is no, there is not.
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If you read Steve Hodel’s original “Black Dahlia Avenger” you will see that the late Tamar Hodel (d. 2015) had two daughters and named them both Fauna. According to Steve Hodel, they were known in the family as “Fauna 1” and “Fauna 2.”
After years of fact-checking the Hodel clan and its claims, I don’t believe anything that involves someone named “Hodel” unless I have verified it myself.
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I see what you mean. I located two articles that appear to contain contradictory statements:
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2009/09/michelle-phillips-and-friends-speak-out-about-mackenzies-incest-allegations
“I was raped only one time by my father.” – Tamar Hodel
http://staging.dujour.com/news/uncovering-the-secrets-of-the-black-dahlia-murder/
“She returned and became pregnant by Hodel after he raped her in the summer of 1949, and she had an abortion.”
“When Tamar was 11, Hodel forced her to perform fellatio on him. ‘I gagged! I was scared! I was embarrassed!'”
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The extravagantly false, distorted claims in the “Black Dahlia Avenger” franchise forced me to spend oceans of time independently investigating the Hodel family. As a result, I would not believe a single word coming from anybody named “Hodel” unless I verified it personally. You cannot depend on the late Tamar Hodel to have ever told the truth about anything without checking it.
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