Boxy and I did another Ask Me Anything on Dr. George Hodel on Tuesday. I covered the history of the Sowden House and who lived there in the 1930s and ‘40s.

I also gave an overview of the life of Dr. George Hodel in the same period, based on public records rather than Steve Hodel’s many fabricated claims. Where Steve has his dad getting a job with the Los Angeles County Health Department in 1945 and buying a house befitting his position, Dr. Hodel actually quit the Health Department in 1944, the year he divorced Steve’s mother, Dorothy. Steve’s claims about living in the Sowden House, his father being the king, his mother being the queen and he and his brothers being the three princes is, alas, utter fiction. Not a word is true.

I also covered the story about whether Dr. Hodel escorted Elizabeth Short to a radio show (no, he didn’t) and whether Fred Sexton really designed the statuette for The Maltese Falcon, as Steve Hodel claims. Executive summary: It’s impossible to find anything – so far – published before Black Dahlia Avenger in 2003 that confirms Sexton was anything other than a painter in 1941, or that he designed the famous “Black Bird.” I’m hoping a trip to the Warner Bros. archives at USC will answer the question.