This is the Ask Me Anything on George Hodel and Steve Hodel for December 2025. In this session, I announced the Black Dahlia Book Club, coming in January 2026. The Black Dahlia Book Club will expand the focus of what has been the Ask Me Anything on George Hodel and Steve Hodel to all the magazine articles and books that have been written about the case.

More details to come….

I also discussed:
–What is Steve Hodel’s “proof” that George Hodel knew Elizabeth Short?

–How has Steve Hodel misrepresented Los Angeles history?

–How many places did Steve Hodel live up to the age of 16 or 18?

–Did a detective tell Jack Webb that the doctor who killed Elizabeth Short lived on Franklin Avenue?

–Were Steve Hodel and his brothers ever a ward of the state?

–How true are Steve Hodel’s stories about decadent parties at the Sowden House?

–Did police question George Hodel when he returned from the Philippines?

–Did Betty Bersinger call the police from the Bayley house to report Elizabeth Short’s body?

–Steve Hodel’s so-called photos of Elizabeth Short.

–Where can someone see the Black Dahlia photos that Steve Hodel bought on EBay?

–What became of the investigation using Buster the Cadaver Dog at the Sowden House?

  –Is it true that the files in the Black Dahlia case are “lost?”

  –What is Steve Hodel’s motive in making so many claims about his father?

–Did Steve Hodel get rich from his books?

–Steve Hodel’s claim that he was part of a “new breed” at the LAPD and the recruiter’s alleged comment that with the name Hodel he would never work as a cop.


The George Hodel transcripts:

The George Hodel files Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 |Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36