Mind yourselves. Two years before Fauna was even born, Tamar. Childhood & Early Life. The school itself was Oregon Episcopal School. PLEASE CORRECT. In October 1949, Hodel's name was mentioned in a formal written report to the grand jury as one of five prime suspects in the Short murder, but none of the named suspects were submitted to the grand jury for consideration for indictment, as the investigation was still ongoing. 6: Journalist Again, all about IMAGE. In July 2018, Sandi Nichols of Indianapolis, Indiana, while going through her recently deceased mother's personal effects, discovered a "Dying Declaration Letter" written by her grandfather, W. Glenn Martin, dated October 26, 1949. Just put in a keyword or two. 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. (Her father was folksinger, Stan Wilson.). By confirming my investigation they would confirm that fact, which they apparently decided is not acceptable. Im a little confused about a response you gave another poster. She said she didnt know. Fauna Hodel was born in August, 1951. Harnisch has been on a childish rant ever since and keeps promising to publish his book any year now. (I believe he was a conductor for the Portland Philharmonic Orchestra.) But thanks to Tamar's surviving children and grandchildren, Fauna's incredible life story is being told and this family has managed to stay bonded through it all. I wanted to let you know that I just finished Root of Evil and I thought your work on it was amazing! I recently appeared on several nationally televised talk shows, Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz with my two great-nieces, Rasha and Yvette, who are the daughters (different fathers) of my niece, Fauna Hodel, who passed away from cancer in 2017. That's a lie. In fact she spoke of George this way even years after your first book: Black Dahlia Advenger. 4: Salesperson (oh crap thats me) Yes, the Franklin/Sowden Hodel residence was the actual crime scene. Fauna in the hope of finding some answers about who she is, Jay hoping to find answers about the Hodel story he wrote about that ruined his career. Having never watched Chinatown, I caught it on cable a few weeks ago. 16-year-old Tamar Nais Hodel was the mother, and Faison was told that the baby's birth father was Black . Id just like to say, I hope this finds you and finds you in good health ? Its obvious a crime was being committed and that the PD failed to intervene, but curious if the woman has ever been identified? Much appreciated. As Tamar revealed to DuJour, Fauna was the product of a sexual assault. The thought has crossed my mind that this is Hustons nod to GHH or at least an indication that he was aware of some of the dark dealings of noir age Hollywood. This author suggests your account of your father as The Black Dahlia murderer is nothing more than a series of endless lies. Oh, you people, you people. Dear Mr. Hodel Take care of yourself and stay safe out there! Fauna's own daughters, Yvette Gentile and Rasha Pecoraro, have been helping to tell their mother's story following Fauna's death in 2017. It has been speculated that Fauna was Tamar's daughter from that incestuous relationship. Family dynamics are so complex, and I thought my family was the archetype of dysfunction. Marie J: As indicated in my followup books, Buster a cadaver dog alert to numerous locations for human remains. Hodel graduated from Berkeley pre-med in June 1932. C. Crow. (1947) (This would have been just nine weeks after he murdered Elizabeth Short.) Its really suspicious for me to see a comment from Fauna herself in May 24, 2019 when she supposedly passed in 2017. Tamar always loved her father and felt affection towards him, but post incest trial in 1949 they never again had any kind of relationship and dads position toward Tamar with the rest of his family was always, Lying Tamar. (He did see her on a few occasions one being a meeting of Tamars good friend, Michele Phillips when The Mamas and Papas were doing debut singing in the Sixties as he was passing through San Francisco. I will continue to wear the dual masks of Drama (Thalia God of Comedy and Melpomene God of Tragedy). (See full description and details in Tamars own words as to the how and why of it below.). One question I cant get out of my mind: Did anyone ever determine who may have been screaming during the police recording? Unfortunately for us, Tamars autobiographies were never completed. [4], After the success of his medical practice and becoming head of the county's Social Hygiene Bureau, Hodel was moving in affluent Los Angeles society by the 1940s. I hope Tamar Hodel, Fauna's birth mother, gets to write her own book. Next? Thank you for this clarity. [3] He was forced to leave the university after one year, due in part to a sex scandal involving a professor's wife. Statements by Tamar Hodel verify George Hodel's relationship to the artist in 1947, 1948, and 1949. The six-episode series is loosely based on Hodel's 2008 memoir "One Day She'll Darken." Her daughters, Yvette Gentile and Rasha Pecoraro, continued the project and together, have been working. 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. Killed her. Based on this the HOSPITAL AUTHORITIES AND PERSONNEL ASSUMED THAT THIS FRIEND (A NEGRO) WAS THE FATHER, and Tamar continued to let them believe the father was black. George is responsible for my middle name. Best Regards, Steve, https://stevehodel.com/author-books-suggested-reading-order/. 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. read my books. Born august 1, 1951, in san francisco, hodel was the first child of 16-year-old tamar nais hodel and the granddaughter of los angeles doctor and socialite george na's birth father was unknown, and the troubled tamar gave up fauna for adoption. She was the mother of five children; Fauna Hodel, Fauna II (born Deborah Elizabeth . My heart felt condolences go out to each one of them. Hes been writing them for 18-years now, ever since my first book, Black Dahlia Avenger published in 2003. Earlier we hear the question, Does your husband know youre here? So, Im guessing she was slain, body disposed of like many of the other victims and her husband likely made a Missing Report on his wife, and she became just another lost/missing report in LA which was known as, The Port of Missing Persons. : Fauna Hodels father was an unnamed White Male Italian American in San Francisco who gave Tamar a bunch of alcoholic drinks then raped her when she was 15. Immediate Family: Daughter of Charles Eugene Harvey, Sr. and Dorothy Bell Harvey. whats next? Birthplace: 711 12th Avenue, New York, New York County, NY, 10019, United States. She desperately wanted to be loved. 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. Before and after the trial. [4] In February 2019, it was announced that Gentile and Pecoraro were producing a podcast, Root of Evil, which delves further into the book, the miniseries adaptation, and their family history. I felt a similar response in my body when I first learned about your father. He died in 1999, at the age of 91. Thank you for the clarification, Steve. Talk about racist. The only way to understand and see how it all fits together is to read all of the books, which are in fact, one ongoing investigation, each adding a significant amount of new evidence to the previous investigation. He was also accused of raping his daughter, Tamar Hodel, but was acquitted for that crime. My mom left me to get sexually abused and she was abusive in other ways. The second project was an eight-part documentary podcast, entitled Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia,[11] a Cadence13/TNT production using archival audio and interviews with Hodel family members. That is what she told me. When Elizabeth Short, also known as The Black Dahlia, was brutally killed in 1947, it gripped the entire country. No movement on DNA testing by LAPD. Zack, the host of the show, had an agenda different than hers. . So it appears to the very same outcometo please George, so she indirectly was telling the truth. It is a bit eerie having been born in 1951 myself near LA and flashbacks of those real times. Im well aware of what century this is. Aloha: Directed by Carl Franklin. Born on October 10, 1907, George Hill Hodel Jr. was raised in Los Angeles, California by his parents, George Sr. and Esther Hodel, who were of Russian Jewish ancestry. Fauna Hodel Early Life Story, Family Background and Education. LAPD at that time was actively investigating the Springer and Black Dahlia murders and had publicly identified them as "probably connected". The case was never solved. But, I guess I would mainly want to pursue the WHY? You may not have realized he was using such language only in quoting another person. In 1951, Fauna Hodel, the white daughter of a prominent California family, was given away at birth to a young black woman who worked as a restroom attendant in a Nevada casino. George Hill Hodel Jr. (October 10, 1907 May 17, 1999) was an American physician and suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. Just came out with Book 6, In The Mesquite which details a horrific mother/daughter murder I believe he committed pre Dahlia in 1938. Carr added that if he ever took a case as weak as Steve Hodel's to a prosecutor he would be "laughed out of the office". Now, through never-before-heard archival audio and first-time interviews, the Hodel family opens up to reveal their shocking story. C. Crow, C. Crow: Ill admit, the expression sets my teeth on edge, as it seems I only ever hear it when some jackass is making a belittling comment to someone, attempting to make the person feel they are other than what is acceptable. Steve Hodel, George's son, even claims his father was the Zodiac Killer. 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. [5] Two witnesses to the alleged abuse testified at the trial. I think she lived in the room next to mine. Were doing okay I wish yours had acted sooner.. ( my sister and her family ), Olivia P: You wrote you people not in bad faith, but as a result of your misinterpretation. numerous years have passed why do you think there is such resistance from LAPD when files were found in the DA vault? No, all the immediate family (Beths sisters) have passed away so just extended family now. Soon after, the father and daughter were. Springer was garroted on June 13, 1949, just two blocks from where Short's body was found in 1947.[9][10]. Fauna was born to a 16-year-old, Tamar Hodel, in 1951. However, his son Steve has written that he believes Hodel re-entered the United States multiple times each year from 1958 through 1988 and specifically in 19661969 to commit more murders, and then return to the Philippines.[6]. My roots on my mothers side go back to County Donegal, Ireland. Tamar Hodel, who was mad at her father because he wouldn't allow her to get an abortion. Jimmie Lee struggled to raise Fauna in Sparks, NV. I have recently re-listened to your nieces podcast. I present strong evidence in my investigation and books that Jean Spangler was very likely a kidnap/murder victim of and by George Hodel. Dawn: Yes, Dangerous Friends is an excellent read and very well written by screenwriter, Peter Viertel, one who KNEW. On Jan. 15, 1947, residents of the Leimert Park area of Los Angeles called the police after discovering a body in an abandoned lot. In my opinion, Fauna chose to let people believe that maybe George was her father for dramatic effect. Same reason she totally invented three fictional letters supposedly written by my mother and sent to her mother which she included in her biography, Some Day Shell Darken. When I queried her after the book was published in 2008 about the invented letters, her response was, Well sometimes a writer has to take creative license for dramatic effect. That was the last time I ever spoke with my niece, Fauna Hodel. Tamar NOT GEORGE named her second daughter Deborah Elizabeth. Mother of Tamar Nais Hodel. As Gentile explained in the podcast, her uncles were three, five, and seven when she met them and their full names are Peace on Earth, Joy to the World, and Love. That happened. Now real linkage or evidence, but then my book, Black Dahlia Avenger came out two years later and presented real evidence and the secret DA files showing George Hodel was the No.1 suspect all along and the top brass all separately and in secret claimed the case was solved and Dr. Hodel did it Harnisch, abandoned by Det. Tamar claimed she had posed for nude photos for Man Ray when she was just a child. The famed. Fauna 1 who died in 2017 and Fauna II (originally named Deborah Elizabeth, but changed her name to Fauna as an adult.) 7: Police Assume you are referring to the below paragraph. Take care, She (or he) brought up the question of Tamars possibly incestuous 1949 pregnancy. 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 understand the way youre using it is in reference to bigoted people who refuse to make the effort to learn and do better, you did so out of frustration after misunderstanding the intent of the author. DuJour reports that Tamar eventually moved to Hawaii with Debbie (who changed her name to Fauna-Elizabeth), and had three sons. All five of Tamar's children had different fathers, Gentile explained. trying to take advantage of a sensational case. This is when I fell in love with True Crime. 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. His "crime spree" would total fifty victims over a nearly fifty-year time period. Steve, Fauna Hodel is likely the child of Tamar Hodel; George may have been her father. The other part of me hates the stronger monster inside him, the evil Mr. I never visited Ireland, but would love to see it someday. 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. 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. I Do not know if youre religous but it seems there had to be something outside yourself guiding you to keep digging. When did Tamar die? I hope many are encouraged by you who have also lived twilight zone lives no fault of their own. That was created from the fictional mini-series, I Am The Night which is 95% fiction. Hyde that won the battles for his psyche. 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.) 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. So, I will do that, as best I can, in my writing, and public speaking and if the muses are willing (How can they not be? You and your family ? Along the way, she'll meet her half-siblings. Both series surmise that Fauna might be both the granddaughter and the daughter of Hodel, though there is no evidence as to who her real father is. I just finished this podcast and had to leave a comment to you and your whole family. The first, a six-part limited television miniseries titled, I Am the Night, is a fictionalized drama focusing on the life of Fauna Hodel and her discovery that her grandfather, Dr. George Hill Hodel (played by actor Jefferson Mays) was the prime suspect in the Black Dahlia Murder (in real life, Fauna Hodel never met her grandfather in person, though they had one phone conversation in which George informed Fauna of Tamars residing in Hawaii). It is confusing. Tamar's mother, Dorothy, gave the baby Fauna to Jimmie Lee, a black maid in a Nevada casino. She tried many times to win back his love and hopefully her inheritance as well. This is fascinating. Unlike in the show, it didn't occur until years after Fauna first discovered the truth about her birth mother, and she brought her oldest daughter, Gentile, to Hawaii with her. They remained in touch with each other as long as I can remember.. her reasons to win his love and hopefully gain financial support as well. 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. his own suspect, a Dr. Walter Baylety who lived a short distance from the vacant lot. The show ran for eight consecutive weeks and attained a "No. He teamed up with LAPD detective Brian Carr (now long retired) and together they did a few TV shows and Det. Man Ray took at least two photographs of George and Dorothy Hodel's children in 1945. Hodel purchased the Sowden House in 1945 and lived there from 1945 until 1950. That's a lie. I expect you would have Mr. Burns go back and edit out all the live footage that clearly demonstrated and used the real-life 1920s and 1930s racist references to lynchings and the use of Nigger and Negro from the script. So was George in Hawaii then, thousands of miles away, when Tamar got pregnant? (Thirteen of these crimes were originally investigated and believed serially connected by the San Diego Sheriff's and Police Departments back in the 1930s, but a suspect was never identified.) But, no relationship and he went out of his way to avoid any contact with Tamar. In the end, by following the evidence, it took me in the exact opposite direction. 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." Ich bewundere Sie , dass Sie das alles aufgedeckt haben und hier jedem Anwort geben. Elizabeth Short - the Black Dahlia - had been gruesomely . More than 70 years later, it remains America's most infamous unsolved murder. They thought there was something fishy. Many believe Dr. George Hodel was the killer, thanks to an investigation by Hodel's own son. Death: March 08, 1982 (75) Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA, United States. Writer: I Am the Night. And I just got a chill upon reading that he told her to name her doll Elizabeth. Keelie K: However, unlike Robert "Red" Manley, Hodel was never considered an important suspect in the case: there is no credible evidence that Hodel even knew Short or had any connection to her homicide. Fauna II's full name is Deborah Elizabeth and she was 18 at the time. In 1961, at 17, Phillips followed Hodel to San Francisco, where her friend bought her a fake ID and a black cocktail dress, taking her to clubs to meet comedians like Lenny Bruce and Dick. But murder is just part of the Hodel family story, one filled with horrifying secrets that ripple across . So, stay tuned. I have read a few times that it was he who gave her second daughter, Fauna, the middle name Elizabeth after Elizabeth Short. 1 podcast ranking" in the United States. I just watched the episode of Zak on the Black Dahlia murder with Fauna. 4. Paddy: By around 1928, Hodel was in a common-law marriage with a woman named Emilia; they had a son, Duncan. Hodel was effectively a polygamist: in the late 1940s, around the time of the deaths of Spaulding and Elizabeth Short, Hodel was living with "Dorero" and their three children; his first legal wife Dorothy Anthony and their daughter Tamar; and, at times, his original common-law wife, Emilia, mother of Hodel's eldest child (by that time an adult). They might meet for dinner on rare occasions. Fauna with her friends from Church in Reno c.1958. . When Fauna first discovered the whereabouts of Tamar and made contact, she received a photograph of Tamar with her newly discovered brothers and sister. Yes, Im familiar with the derogatory comments by Larry Harnisch on his website. I was speechless listening to the part about your discovery of the receipts for the concrete and fertilizer. 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. For much of her life Tamar Hodel struggled to recover from abuse and condemnation. That is when he drugged her and took the naked photographs in the hotel room. 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. Former piano child prodigy Hodel was a physician who served as the Los Angeles County Health Director in the 1940s. The actual facts surrounding Tamars pregnancy and adoption and Tamars motives, are very different from how they have been portrayed by others, so best to hear them told, as they actually occurred, in the very words of Faunas mother, Tamar Nais Hodel. Dr. George Hodel is an infamous gynecologist involved in the darkest Hollywood debauchery. Born on October 10, 1907, in Los Angeles, California, George Hill Hodel, Jr. was the only son of George Hill Hodel, Sr and Esther Hodel. THANK YOU for printing for story in her own words The Tamar Chronicles. Love you Dearly, Fauna Elizabeth Wilson /Hodel The structure, built in 1926 by Lloyd Wright (son of the noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright), has since been registered as a Los Angeles historic landmark. This started up again when she married my father Stan Wilson. St. Helens Hall would have been the name of the boarding hall. Fauna Hodel. Teresa J: So sick. They share photos with them on social media, like the above photo with their uncle Love, and frequently write about the importance of family. Secrets and lies have permeated the Hodel family for far too long and finally the spotlight zeros in on the truth as it should. Did he remain a mystery? Fauna naci cuando Tamar tena diecisis aos. Fast forward to the birth of Deborah and Tamar, again NOT GEORGE chose to give her the middle name of Elizabeth most likely to honor the play doll suggestion from her father many years earlier. T.J. Burks: There were two Faunas. I have followed this entire story through my childhood into adulthood and it amazes me how strong and telling you are. Best, Steve, Do you think Dr. Hodel had anything to do with Jean Spanglers disappearance? Was Fauna Hodel the child of incest, and the catalyst for a sensational trial that left her well-to-do family scarred by scandal, even as the accused sexual predator walked free? Ex-wife of John Huston and George Hill Hodel, Jr. Geraldine M or Martha J: Good evening, Mr. Hodel, 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. Steve, Steve, Tamar Hodel was one of six childrenby three different womenof the most pathologically decadent man in Los Angeles: Dr. George Hodel, the city's venereal-disease czar and a fixture in its. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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. Spoilers aside, as it is such an old film, part of the impact of the last few scenes has to do with the fact that Noah Cross gets away with it. were from Ireland, but dont have anything further information? "A former child prodigy, now a brilliant doctor who entertained and inspired a Hollywood salon of the avant-garde in the 40's until a scandal broke and sent his famous friends scurrying." George Hodel is the scion of an . In late 1949, Hodel's teenage daughter Tamar accused him of incestuous sexual abuse and impregnating her. Hi Steve, Fauna Hodel's quest to retrace her roots on I Am the Night has become deadly, but she's finally getting close to some answers about her birth mother, Tamar Hodel. Unfortunately there are probably many people who were not convicted due to their standing in the community or being able to buy off officials in those days. I also wish our police personal were honored more for all that they do to keep us safe. (1921-1969). Have gone through many and varying reactions through the years. )for that specific linkage. She was proud to be to married to a famous recording artist, as her first love (Josh White) was already married. Soil samples confirmed his findings. Also, how this also ties in with the fact that a hobby of your fathers what photography? 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