I am sure Tamar had different stories for different people, so what is the truth of it? Dear Uncle steve, please correct the information concerning my name Elizabeth, as I believed what my Mother, Tamar, told me. I could not continue to be Deborah, to abused, to damaged, even after being lent overnight to wealthy men finally stopped Tamar kept abusing me in every way possible, I was so brainwashed it was many years to realize what she was doing to me still. Thoughtprint Press) presenting possible crimes committed in Northern and Southern California by George Hodel in the 1920s and 1930s. He was also accused of raping his daughter, Tamar Hodel, but was acquitted for that crime. She felt she was tricked into telling. This is when I fell in love with True Crime. She tried many times to win back his love and hopefully her inheritance as well. Tamar watches her father hold a party no child should witness, a full-on Satanic looking sex orgy with George Hodel front and center wearing what looks like an animal skull. Thanks for the kind words. I was speechless listening to the part about your discovery of the receipts for the concrete and fertilizer. He married (legally) for the fourth time, to a woman named June, in San Francisco,[2] where he remained for the rest of his life. If so, I want to believe that wherever she is, she now knows the truth. Hodel was a gifted student as a youth and scored an impressive 186 in an . were there any reports from Surrealists at the time? You may not have realized he was using such language only in quoting another person. In the summer of 1949, the 14-year-old moved into the Franklin Avenue house. St. Helens Hall would have been the name of the boarding hall. [5] Two witnesses to the alleged abuse testified at the trial. Tamar was sent to a reformatory, where she later gave birth to Fauna, who was given to a stranger and raised as a mixed child even though she wasn't biracial. They were never really interested as they believed that my investigation was just another of the many I admire you for uncovering all this and for answering everyone here. When I did meet my sister I was excited, we were twins. Sadly, that cannot change. The other part of me hates the stronger monster inside him, the evil Mr. Assume you are referring to the below paragraph. This is fascinating. I feel a lot of truths we were once denied shall no longer have the veil of silence they once possessed. (A claim hes made over the past twenty-three years.) Were doing okay I wish yours had acted sooner.. ( my sister and her family ), Olivia P: Best, Steve. P.S To any who may read this God bless you and your families and the wonderful people who serve us through this crisis ! Death: March 08, 1982 (75) Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA, United States. Teresa J: [5][6] Hodel served as the film's executive producer and creative consultant. Fauna Hodel is likely the child of Tamar Hodel; George may have been her father. The show ran for eight consecutive weeks and attained a "No. Wish you a healthy new year. From there, authorities found evidence that led them to believe that Dr. Hodel was also a . If they look at it they will have to conclude as I have shown, that LAPDs two greatest heroes, Chiefs William H. Bill Parker and Chief of Detectives Thad Brown, did in fact, participate in a cover-up by not pursuing their known/identified suspect, Dr. George Hill Hodel. Hi Patti. The affair between Hodel and the woman caused her marriage to fall apart.[4]. He was also a musical prodigy. The file revealed that in 1950, Hodel was a suspect of the Dahlia murder. Fauna's strange story of Fauna Hodel starts in Reno, Nevada, when a woman offered Jimmie Lee Faison a child in the bathroom of a casino. The Root of Evil producer Zak Levitt was able to obtain DNA analysis and a review of the results by one of the world's leading experts, which positively eliminated Dr. George Hodel as the biological father of Fauna Hodel. In 2021 George Hodel's son, Steve Hodel, published a two-part investigation (The Early Years: The Further Serial Crimes of George Hodel M.D. Ps. Tamar responded with a photo of herself with her four other children, whom she had after giving Fauna up for adoption daughter Elizabeth (who was also called Fauna II) and sons Peace, Love,. . I Am The Night airs Mondays at 9 p.m. In my young mind it was my way to be New, loved, a person not sexually abused!! As I indicated, after my niece Fauna came out with her creative license for dramatic effect as relates to inventing fictitious letters supposedly written by my mother, in her autobiography, I just ignored it. Yes, the family dynamics have been difficult for me. This author suggests your account of your father as The Black Dahlia murderer is nothing more than a series of endless lies. 2: Lawyer Do I think that she gave you the middle name of Elizabeth to show her ongoing love for her father and to do as he wished and name her little doll, (this time a living doll) to please her father and fulfill his seven-year-old request, to name her Elizabeth? (See full description and details in Tamars own words as to the how and why of it below.). [2] After another four children, they divorced in the 1960s; she was later a member of the Philippine Congress as Hortensia Starke. 10: Civil Servant, the guy LH has a clock on his site saying how many years/months/days/hours/mins/secs since the movies rights have been bought for your book (hes that petty and sad), Kate: 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. In fact she spoke of George this way even years after your first book: Black Dahlia Advenger. But, by following the evidence I was forced to come to the slow realization that he was in fact guilty of that crime and more to my horror multiple serial crimes in LA. She never stopped loving him and always hoped that love would be reciprocated by him. Keelie K: Did she board 1 year at St. Helens Hall in Portland, OR for 7th or 8th grade? Best Regards, Steve, https://stevehodel.com/author-books-suggested-reading-order/. [citation needed], Hodel died of breast cancer at age 66 on September 30, 2017. Short's relatives also disagreed that the photos in Hodel's album were of Short. boarding on being in love. Hi Kris: Thanks for the kind words. Fauna Hodel Early Life Story, Family Background and Education. I had to talk to him for her sake when she they had a falling out, and only talk to me for her. Get it? Hodel was also interviewed as a suspect in the nearby June 1949 murder of Louise Springer, the "Green Twig Murder", though evidence to support this accusation was not publicly available until July 2018. . I attempt to examine and present many of the triggers for this in my separate books. George Hill Hodel Jr. was born on October 10, 1907, and raised in Los Angeles, California. (The reason being to hide the fact that a murder was committed during the electronic stakeout and they took no action, made no immediate response to the assault.) Surely you would have seen through her lies relating to age and background with george . At the same time, I would caution against using the expression you people. Depravity and lawlessness exuded from the walls of her home, where her father George . He described his activities as working undercover for LAPD detectives to help them identify and arrest corrupt police officers; in his words, " it was to try and see if other officers could be inveigled into crime." Fauna Hodels 1951 Birth Certificate: Tamar in her own words bda III all seven pages. Tamar Nais Hodel, the girl on the witness stand at Hollywood's criminal court, was 14 years old in December 1949, but she seemed older. She, when married my father she hoped George would be proud of her, close to her again (as she never meant to tell on him. ) Hodel's daughter, Tamar, escaped the house in 1949 after accusing her father and others of sexually assaulting her during one of the many parties he would throw at the estate. By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. [3] He was forced to leave the university after one year, due in part to a sex scandal involving a professor's wife. Steve, where in Donegal does your mums family come from ?Im fascinated here in Donegal lol. That's a lie. Only source on it is Ancestry.com When Elizabeth Short, also known as The Black Dahlia, was brutally killed in 1947, it gripped the entire country. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. Its an extremely dark and disturbing movie thats actually banned in the US, and simply watching the preview (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ddwrbcMmzlc) or reading the synopsis on Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film) is enough to send shivers down my spine. George Hodel was accused of raping his 14-year-old daughter Tamar there in . Copyright 2023 Steve Hodel. He had no part in the naming. Fauna's story technically begins in 1951, when 16-year-old Tamar Hodel gave birth to a baby girl. Although the Los Angeles Times reported that he was rushed to the Receiving Hospital with a slim chance of survival, death records reveal that he died that same evening. Thank you for the response, Steve. Hi steve My mother was similar and I suspect there was some atleast emotional incest in her past. Thanks for the kind words. "Everything in the book is true . When you first realized that, how did you feel? Hodel left the United States in March 1950 for Hawaii, then a U.S. territory, where he married an upper-class Filipino woman, Hortensia Laguda. "Things could not get any more weird . or so we thought," Gentile said of the situation. By around 1928, Hodel was in a common-law marriage with a woman named Emilia; they had a son, Duncan. Immediate Family: Daughter of Charles Eugene Harvey, Sr. and Dorothy Bell Harvey. Yes, the Franklin/Sowden Hodel residence was the actual crime scene. The 1949 sexual abuse trial involving George Hodel's daughter Tamar is what garnered the interest of investigators on the Short homicide. But, now, with all the publicity first with the I Am The Night fictional miniseries followed by the podcast, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia I have been called upon to keep it real. (The only reason I agreed to do the interviews on the national television shows.) As far as Tamar and Faunas biological father. Marie J: George Hodel was accused of sexually assaulting his 14-year old daughter, Tamar Hodel but the misogynistic judge and jury thought that Tamar was "crazy" and acquitted George Hodel. I Will be publishing The Early Years next year which covers his pre-Dahlia crimes and hopefully that will allow me to get out of the twenty-plus back hole. Fauna's Daughters Have Given Their Stamp Of Approval,", "New Podcast Explores Black Dahlia Murder: Root of Evil dives into the story of George Hodel, a primary suspect in Elizabeth Shorts 1947 unsolved murder and its told by his great-granddaughters,", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fauna_Hodel&oldid=1133379049, This page was last edited on 13 January 2023, at 13:52. The late Fauna's two real-life daughters, Gentile and her half-sister, the 40-year-old Rasha Pecoraro, host a podcast, " Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia ,". The jury, which included eight women, said no. Thanks for your thoughtful response Steve. Birthplace: 711 12th Avenue, New York, New York County, NY, 10019, United States. After running away from home in 1949, the teenager . Daughter of George Hill Hodel, and Dorothy Grace Anthony Barbe (17 April 1911 - 12 October 1995). As explained on the One Day She'll Darken website, the real Fauna learned about her siblings when she wrote to her mother for the first time. C. Crow, C. Crow: Carr took the position, Could be him? https://stevehodel.com/2016/10/29/john-huston-peter-viertel-white-hunter-black-heart-friendship-cold-blooded-premeditated-murder/, Huston having been married to my mother, Dorothy Huston Hodel for seven years prior to marrying George Hodel certainly KNEW and was a regular partygoer to the Sowden/Franklin House at the time of dads arrest for Incest and Child Molestation with my halfsister, Tamar in 1949. George Hodel's lawyer ran an all-out smear campaign against Tamar, calling her a promiscuous, incorrigible, pathological liar, and the physician was acquitted. Steve Hodel, George's son, even claims his father was the Zodiac Killer. The viewing/listening/reading public needs to know what is FACT and what is FICTION. Born in 1907, the only child of George Hodel, Sr. and Esther Hodel, he was a musical prodigy with an IQ of 187 . [1] He was never formally charged with the crime. When Fauna first discovered the whereabouts of Tamar and made contact, she received a photograph of Tamar with her newly discovered brothers and sister. 1 podcast ranking" in the United States. Did Dr. Hodel molest Tamar? Never again. I have recently re-listened to your nieces podcast. Top 10 Professions favoured by Psychopaths YES. Writer: I Am the Night. The brief accounting I listened to when you appeared on Dr. By confirming my investigation they would confirm that fact, which they apparently decided is not acceptable. Tamar NOT GEORGE named her first daughter Fauna after a Robinson Jeffers poem just as her father had named her Tamar after a poem by Jeffers. Steve Hodel has since produced two additional books on the Dahlia case, and several books on the Zodiac killer and other cases, attempting to link them to his father. The son makes a clear disclaimer that "none of the presented crimes contain proof beyond a reasonable doubt and without hard physical evidence such as DNA linkage are not solvable." 9: Chef After Hodel died in 1999, his son Steve Hodel, a former LAPD homicide detective, started investigating his father as a possible suspect in the Elizabeth Short murder and has written several books on the subject. Dr. George Hodel is an infamous gynecologist involved in the darkest Hollywood debauchery. He had impregnated the woman and wanted to raise their child together, but she refused. 3: Media Television/Radio But, no relationship and he went out of his way to avoid any contact with Tamar. LAPDs refusal to look at it has I think, all to do with IMAGE. Yes, Tamars first pregnancy was aborted in 1949 and George Hodel was in Hawaii. With Chris Pine, India Eisley, Jefferson Mays, Leland Orser. I made no review about her book from its publication (2008) until just a few months past, so 11-years of no comment.. I have not read your books (yet) as I just stumbled onto your site after googling about the I am the night series after recently watching it. In the early years, I chose to respond to his misrepresentations, with just the facts but then came to realize that no amount of evidence would/could change his mind. My heart felt condolences go out to each one of them. I hope you have love and kindness in your life ?! [1] Fauna's birth father was unknown, and the troubled Tamar gave up Fauna for adoption. She had gone to her father at age 12 and asked him to name her doll for her. Remember, this case came to me, I didnt go to it. Amnon had to finagle a way to get Tamar to visit him because the king's children dwelled in different abodes. I know youre old, and probably still stuck in the olden times, but it is 2021. And I just got a chill upon reading that he told her to name her doll Elizabeth. I recently spoke with you explaining how I was told that come to be. For you, thank you for giving your readers and podcasts listeners a glimpse into such a traumatic time into your life as you fought to uncover such an ugly truth about your own father. She took George to trial in 1949 under the accusations that he had raped . 1. Fauna later learned her origins, which revealed her connection to the controversial 1949 incest trial of George Hodel on accusations by Tamar as well as George Hodel's connection to the still-unsolved Black Dahlia case. But things may get even more complicated for her when she discovers Tamar had other children after giving her up for adoption. Fauna's own daughters, Yvette Gentile and Rasha Pecoraro, have been helping to tell their mother's story following Fauna's death in 2017. She never achieved her goal there at that time. George Hodel wasn't Zodiac. You are truly an inspiration and a reminder that there are always people on the good side of the fight, no matter how difficult that may be. Thank you for the clarification, Steve. Thanks for the kind words and your response to the other comments by Layla. Tamar had the baby girl at a hospital in San Francisco. In January 2004 some nine months after the publication of my first book, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder, (Arcade 2003) Tamar wrote and emailed me the below six-page Overview of the Tamar Chronicles. This was a summary of what she intended to be her autobiography in three parts. Here I was fascinated reading this. As Tamar revealed to DuJour, Fauna was the product of a sexual assault. George is responsible for my middle name. One of these stories was as I have related in BDA, telling me of her going to our father at age 12 and asking him to help her name her the Black haired doll she had just received from her mother for her 12th birthday in late March of that year. Although the Hodel family has many more skeletons than other families, you all are dealing with this by acknowledging, acceptance and healing. The three-page letter identified W. Glenn Martin as a paid LAPD police informant working for a "Sgt. This is the inverse to the scenario of a convicted criminals family member trying to prove the accused innocent. Patti L. Its confusing because of the two Faunas. It was re-published in 2019 by Graymalkin Media, including an eight-page photo insert from Hodel's personal collection. My roots on my mothers side go back to County Donegal, Ireland. And, in the end, it is the same- The fact is the source of your middle name, Elizabeth did come from and at Georges request. Fauna did return to the Sowden/Franklin house for an episode on Ghost Adventures, but I believe on false pretext. https://stevehodel.com/2015/10/19/tamar-nais-hodel-dies-at-80-in-honolulu-hawaii/, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ddwrbcMmzlc, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film, https://stevehodel.com/2016/10/29/john-huston-peter-viertel-white-hunter-black-heart-friendship-cold-blooded-premeditated-murder/, https://stevehodel.com/2019/04/12/director-screenwriter-david-lynch-reveals-new-old-clue-to-black-dahlia-investigation-in-dinner-with-john-john/, Sad, Sad, Sade-The Surrealists Divine Marquis and Publication of his Writings in 1904 The 120 Days of Sodom or the School of Libertinage was the Probable Inspiration for Many of Dr. George Hill Hodels Serial Murders, Malcolm Hillgartners Audiobook Narration of The Early Years Part II The Further Serial Crimes of George Hill Hodel M.D. Now Available (Includes Downloadable Copy of Full Text and Graphics), Kelvin Kelly Hodel- My Irish Twin Brother-A Short Introduction and Bio on His Remarkable Life, Inference Poem Written and Published By 18-Year-Old George Hodel Describes Himself as Conceived in Sin..Somber Skys Darkened Dismally, and I Was Born, New Evidence In 1949 Suspected Black Dahlia Murder of Victim Lucille Hodges-Hannibal Lector Meets LA Confidential in Chinatown. Tamar's testimony was perceived as contradictory and attention-seeking. And, of course, 95% of the material in the IATN miniseries is fictional. No movement on DNA testing by LAPD.
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