Can This Dog Solve the Black Dahlia Murder Mystery
On February 3, 2013, The Daily Beast posted Can This Dog Solve the Black Dahlia Homicide? by Christine Pelisek. If you have any interest at all in the world famous 70 year old unsolved murder, then you should check out the article. Here are a few tidbits…
No one has ever been charged with the gruesome slaying, despite years of police work, nearly 50 discredited confessions, and intense media attention…
The most intriguing theory, though, may be the one posited by Steve Hodel, whose says his own father did the deed.
… his father, George Hodel, a surgeon, killed Short after a romance between the two turned ugly. He also believes his father killed close to a dozen women in the 1940s in his Hollywood home and then gruesomely posed them in different locales around the city.
The elder Hodel, it has been revealed, was indeed a suspect in the Short murder, but his son says he was never caught out of a combination of high-powered friends (who may have had dirt on the police) and inept detective work.
Last November, Hodel joined forces with former California police detective Paul Dostie and Buster, his rambunctious 9-year-old cadaver-sniffing black Labrador, for the first-ever forensic search at Hodel’s former home.
Buster was turned loose to search for scents related to human decomposition—and he perked up, or “alerted” as Dostie calls it, at several potential clues in the basement. Soil samples were taken and results are expected next week.
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