TWENTY YEARS BEFORE SHOCKING THE WORLD IN LOS ANGELES IN 1947 AS âTHE BLACK DAHLIA AVENGERâ DID GEORGE HODEL TERRORIZE CALIFORNIA BY COMMITTING SOME OF ITS MOST INFAMOUS CRIMES AND SERIAL MURDERS?
From the Introduction:In writing George Hill Hodel: âThe Early Years,â my original intent was to present all my fatherâs suspected crimes from the 1920s and 1930s in one edition. I have found this is simply not possible as it would require a book that would dwarf Dostoevskyâs nearly seven-hundred-page opus, Crime and Punishment. Therefore, I will present âThe Early Yearsâ in two-parts, two editions. This edition is Part I and presents my investigations of his suspected crimes in the 1920s. Note that I said, âsuspected crimes.â I want to be crystal clear on this point. My two-part, âEarly Yearsâ investigations are just thatâa search out of for the truth. âŚIn the presentation of these crimes from the long ago (the first one goes back one-hundred years), I make no claim to a âsolution.â I am not saying that my father, George Hill Hodel, committed any of these crimes, beyond a âReasonable Doubtââwhich would be the legal requirement to find him guilty.Several of these crimes, without the introduction of hard physical evidence, or DNA, are not solvable. Others have been claimed âsolvedâ by law enforcement and are considered âCase Closed.ââŚTo be clear.These crimes from the Twenties and Thirties did not present themselves to me post-Black Dahlia Avenger published in 2003. I was aware of them and his possible involvement in them as early as the year 2000, a full three years before I presented my father to the world as the killer of Elizabeth âBlack Dahliaâ Short and the other LA Lone Woman Murders.