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Elizabeth Short’s 100th Birthday: Heaven Is HERE! Chapter 13

Viewing of the sample excerpts is now over. Thanks for reading! This is the opening of Chapter 13 of Heaven Is HERE! 4,700 words.

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Elizabeth Short’s 100th Birthday: Heaven Is HERE! Chapter 12

Viewing of the sample excerpts is now over. Thanks for reading!This is an excerpt from Chapter 12 of Heaven Is HERE! 5,800 words.

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Elizabeth Short’s 100th Birthday: Heaven Is HERE! Chapter 10

Viewing of the sample excerpts is now over. Thanks for reading! An excerpt from Chapter 10 of Heaven Is HERE! 3,500 words.

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Elizabeth Short’s 100th Birthday: Heaven Is HERE! Chapter 5

Viewing of the sample excerpts is now over. Thanks for reading! This is the opening of Chapter 5 of Heaven Is HERE! 4,000 words.

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Elizabeth Short’s 100th Birthday: Heaven Is HERE! Chapter 3

Viewing of the sample excerpts is now over. Thanks for reading! This is the opening of Chapter 3 of Heaven Is HERE! 5,000 words.

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Black Dahlia: Elizabeth Short’s 100th Birthday Honored With Selections From ‘Heaven Is HERE!’

Dear readers of the L.A. Daily Mirror: Monday, July 29, 2024, will be devoted to Elizabeth Short’s 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, every hour beginning at 1:08 a.m. and continuing to 3:08 p.m., I will be posting 500-word excerpts … Continue reading

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, July 2024

Here’s Boxie (formerly Boxy) and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. In this session, I discuss the flurry of interest in rumors that the creators of the hit video game L.A. Noire were releasing a sequel … Continue reading

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, June 2024

Here’s Boxie (formerly Boxy) and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. In this session, I discussed people who “find hidden messages” in the postcards and letters written to the police and the newspapers in the Black … Continue reading

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, April 2024

Here’s Boxie (formerly Boxy) and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. The first subject was where was George Hodel in December 1945 and why does it matter? And the second, somewhat related subject was one of … Continue reading

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, March 2024

Here’s Boxie (formerly Boxy) and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. I discussed the bizarre works of Jack Pico, an alias of John Frederick “Jack” Kohne Jr., from whom Steve Hodel stole the idea that the … Continue reading

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, February 2024

Here’s Boxie (formerly Boxy) and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. I responded to Steve Hodel’s bizarre “validation from beyond the grave” (law enforcement officials who, in Steve’s world, say he’s “solved” the case — all … Continue reading

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, January 2024

Here’s Boxie (formerly Boxy) and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. I responded to a Steve Hodel supporter who challenged my credentials and asked for my “substantiation.”

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Black Dahlia: Trim Your Roses on Jan. 15 to Remember Elizabeth Short

Today is Jan. 15, the anniversary of Elizabeth Short’s death. As is the custom, the Daily Mirror will be dark. Trim your roses in her memory.

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, December 2023 / The George Hodel Bugging Transcripts

Here’s Boxy and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. I talked about Steve Hodel’s bizarre new book “Black Dahlia Avenger IV” and one of his staunchest enablers, Luigi Warren. Then I reviewed the LAPD guidelines for … Continue reading

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, November 2023 / The George Hodel Bugging Transcripts

Here’s Boxy and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. I talked about Steve Hodel’s Internet squabble with Esotouric and his bizarre new book “Black Dahlia Avenger IV.” Then I went over the LAPD guidelines for managing … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Ask Me Anything, October 2023

Here is this month’s Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case. I discuss the “suspect of the month” (Mark Hansen) and talk about the gap in Elizabeth Short’s life from Jan. 9, 1947, when Red Manley left her at … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: George Hodel, Ask Me Anything, September 2023

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 … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Ask Me Anything for September 2023

Here’s my latest Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case. We had a good turnout and lots of excellent questions. The video is posted on YouTube and on Instagram. I discussed Don’t Dress Up Like the Black Dahlia for … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: George Hodel, Ask Me Anything, August 2023

Here’s an Ask Me Anything that I did Tuesday about Steve Hodel and his lies about his father, Dr. George Hodel. To be scientific, I analyzed Steve Hodel’s techniques for lying, which I call Inflation, Distortion, Suppression and Fiction, and … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia: Ask Me Anything, July 2023

Here’s the Ask Me Anything for July. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello!

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