I dont care how it makes you feel.). (ANABAS) (2.5L) KFM-2500 : 29.80 cm : 30.40 cm : 41.40 cm : 5.26 kg She told Fauna that the incestuous relationship with him did lead to a pregnancy when she was 12, but that she had an abortion. Hodel came to police attention as a suspect in the Elizabeth Short murder in 1949 after the sexual abuse trial. He was also a musical prodigy. If anything, its almost like a short, relaxed Hawaiian vacation, just before what should be a stressful finale. He filed a Freedom of Information Act to retrieve the FBI files on the murder, and other information the bureau had collected on his father. He is confident that not only was his father the Black Dahlia murderer, Dr. George Hodel was linked to other murders in California, Chicago, and later Manila, where he ended up after fleeing the United States. Jimmie Lee was never assaulted by George a scene in I Am the Night that marks the shows significant departure from reality but she and Fauna did remain close until her death. "Three years later, I followed the evidence with all my training and he actually was the prime suspect all along," Hodel said. reflection about kundiman? I am too busy working on active cases." Before she was killed, Short had been forced to eat feces. That said, Jays speech about killingand how it makes him feel like riding in the chariot of the sun godis awfully purple. The title of Faunas memoir, One Day Shell Darken, purportedly comes from a comment George made when Jimmie Lee hesitated to take in the infant girl after seeing that she was white. [5] Two witnesses to the alleged abuse testified at the trial. The reality, however, is more complicated. (Im only breathing because of what you did, Fauna says, matter-of-factly. 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 Hodel. The file, a copy of which the district attorney also shared with the Guardian, contains an assortment of photographs, newspaper clippings and several hundred pages of typed interview notes, pixelated with age, compiled by Jemison. The real-life Fauna Hodel was born in 1951 and quickly given away by her 16-year-old mother, Tamar, at the urging of her family. She was well aware that the project was underway. It was taught in the 1930s, when George had been in medical school. She loved me because I was her baby, but she hated my whiteness." As stated earlier, Jay Singletary is a fictional character. Now, its solidly middle-class, with rows of close-set houses with manicured laws. George Hodel was a genius and a monster. "I started researching. Is that house for real?Yes, and it is fabulous. Her mother was a maid and her father was a shoe shine man. She just kept saying, this isnt true, your father was a scholar, Steve said (I tried to locate June Hodel for this article, but couldnt contact her). Hes purposefully left out his own theories that George is a serial killer and, perhaps even worse, that he was put on trial after being accused of having sex with Tamar. The DAs office complied, and Lopez received access to a file that Lt Frank Jemison, one of the original officers investigating Shorts murder, had left behind in a safe in the basement of the district attorneys office. In the book Most Evil by Steve Hodel he compares his Dad to a modern day Jack The Ripper type. I was all set to hop down here and smugly point out that Sullivans Whats behind door number two? crack was being made a few years too early; but in fact. He had to struggle a lot at an early stage and literally had to burn the night oil to pursue his career. George Hodel. What is Faunas racial makeup, exactly?She is, by all accounts, white. All rights reserved. In 1940, Hodel married Dorothy Harvey, John Huston's ex-wife. George Hodel was never suspected of killing his secretary, who committed suicide. Chris Greenwade. What happened to Jimmie Lee Greenwade? His girlfriend, Roberta, would like something nicer, but the rent is low and the space is large. 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. At the time, Steve told no one but his girlfriend, Roberta, what he was working on. Pines Singletary is so casually cool at times: whether hes absently giving the finger to some yahoo at the bar who calls out, Hey, Shellshocked!, or hes making Fauna laugh by trying on heart-shaped sunglasses, or hes saying goodbye to Peter by asking, Want a lei? A woman approached a black restroom attendant at the hotel/casino and asked her if she wanted a yet-to-be-born, mixed race baby. That fact has been all the encouragement Steve needs to keep digging. Hers was one of the most brutal murders in American history, and, after the Zodiac killers shooting spree in San Francisco, perhaps the most famous unsolved crime in California. He was named after his father. There has never been a comfortable end point to conclude his investigation: each piece of evidence leads to another, in turn leading to another crime. The property had three other owners by the time that George Hodel bought the home in 1945. He does though offer to give his shrewd but shaky reporter the money for a couple of plane tickets and a rental car, to take Fauna to meet Tamar. In 1949, Dr. George Hill Hodel was accused of molesting and having sex with his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar. This question has generated the most curiosity surrounding the I Am the Night true story. Its likewise true that Jimmie Lee and Greenwade soon broke up, but the show omits Jimmie Lees subsequent, long-lasting relationship with a shoeshine man named Homer Faison, who raised Fauna as his own during a period when Jimmie Lee was struggling with alcoholism. Before Elizebeth's murder, he was never charged for the crime. As it turns out, George Hodel, played by Jefferson Mays, had been a suspect . Did Tamar flee to Hawaii and live a hippie-ish lifestyle with her children?Per Tamars one and only interview with a journalist for DuJour, the answer is yes. 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. "Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia, they couldn't prove it now. Is Jay Singletary a complete fabrication, or a composite or approximation of real people?Its more that Pines character is a composite of period-noir protagonists and private dicks. In late 1949, Hodel's teenage daughter Tamar accused him of incestuous sexual abuse and impregnating her. He kept telling her how attractive she was and called her "baby" and "sugar," telling her that he wanted to "feast his eyes on a sexy thang like herself." This research has won him fans. Killed her. I knew which hospital I was born," said Fauna. Though they never legally changed her name, they decided to call her Patricia Ann Greenwade. Have you figured it out? he asked me, Because Id like to know., He paused, and then added, To my dad, the Black Dahlia is his story, he said. Fauna herself was never certain if Tamar's explanation was a lie or the truth.What is fairly certain, and prominently depicted in the movie, is that Fauna's grandfather, George Hodel, spied on her for much of her life. Long gashes extended her mouth into an eerie smile. Whoever it was he was a cocky bastard that's for sure. He was a good physician, having a lot of . After his first book, Black Dahlia Avenger, was released, Steve seemed on the verge of a breakthrough. The rumors and stories surrounding this controversial physician, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, continue to spark the interest of anyone interested in the macabre. Fauna knew immediately that she was referring to George Hodel. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. The Martin letter made it clear that "GH" was known and protected by law enforcement officers, and that they "let him go." In one of my favorite issues of one of my favorite superhero comics, Astro Cityin volume one, #2, The Scoopveteran reporter Elliot Mills looks back at one of the biggest stories he ever stumbled across, when he witnessed an epic fight between heroes and villains in a subway tunnel, with team-ups and world-ending threats the city had never seen before, plus freaky cult activity that involved sacrificing a shark on the train-tracks. It's possible that the Hodels did not want what they believed was a mixed-race baby associated with the family.Her baby was given away at the Riverside Hotel. His Hollywood residence was electronically bugged by an 18-man DA/LAPD task force between February 15 and March 27, 1950. the Black Dahlia. In the 1930s, he was legally married to Dorothy Anthony, a fashion model from San Francisco; they had a daughter, Tamar. They thought there was something fishy. Their daughter, Deborah, has asserted that Tamar forced her into childhood prostitution and left her vulnerable to Georges advances. While fact-checking his column, Lopez asked the Los Angeles county district attorneys office for more information on the murder. digging into his dads Dahlia connections, during an assault by a separate white man, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. I wish I could say India Eisley gives that moment the gravitas it deserves, but alas, shes still stuck playing a character with an inappropriate accent and fluctuating awareness of her surroundings, so her Fauna looks a little timid and lost, even when shes scolding Jay for not trusting her with the truth. the Black Dahlia, police came to consider Hodel a suspect. Realise there was nothing I could do, put a pillow over her head and cover her with a blanket. Dr. George Hill Hodel Jr. is dead. It took us a minute to find the spot where Shorts body was found, using a compass app and the house numbers. Fauna Hodels death occurred in September of 2017. Tamar, believing that a Black family would raise Fauna in an environment of " love and kindness ," left her daughter with African-American casino worker Jimmie Lee. In 1949, George Hodel had been arrested and tried for incest by LAPD; his 14-year-old daughter Tamar accused him of raping her, resulting in a pregnancy she aborted. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. Los Angeles County said all litigation over the crash has now been resolved. Did Fauna and George Hodel ever cross paths, as depicted in, This password will be used to sign into all, Okay, TikTok, You Can Calm Down About Aubrey Plaza at the SAG Awards Now, All 165 Pink Floyd Songs Ranked, From Worst to Best, The Daniels Gave Stephanie Hsu Permission to Be Weird. All of those murders involved corpses that were dissected and posed in a fashion similar to Elizabeth Short. Hodel was born in October, 1907. That did not stop his son, Steve Hodel, a former LAPD homicide detective from accusing him of murder. The photo at left was taken while she was on her way home from a day of work. Steve began investigating his father with the deliberate fastidiousness of the good cop hed always been. They can't talk to my secretary anymore because she's dead. She believed it, but it wasnt reality.. Former Los Angeles police department detective Steve Hodel has spent the last 15 years cataloguing evidence that his dad killed Elizabeth Short and others. Its like, oh man.. [2] With Ray and some other Surrealists, he shared an interest in sadomasochism; with the young men of the Hollywood scene, he shared a fondness for partying, drinking, and womanizing.[2]. There were cuts all over her body, rope burns and defensive wounds on her wrists, hands, and ankles, and one breast had been cut off. Steve took it as a clue. Flesh and pubic hair had been shaved off her body and inserted into her vagina and rectum. My judge and jury are the public he said. It listed her father as "Negro", his "name withheld". That would explain why he changed his MO so drastically. Almost as if scripted, startling revelations came after Steve concluded his research. The 26-year-old showed up the night of Feb. 18 in Marion, Alabama, where hundreds of people had gathered to march in protest of the arrest of a local civil rights activist. The surveillance continues, routinely, but for one telling moment. Fauna, played by India Eisley in the TNT series, was the granddaughter of George Hodel, a suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. His "crime spree" would total fifty victims over a nearly fifty-year time period. Hodel obtained a degree in psychiatry and counseled prisoners in the Territorial prison in Hawaii for three years, then moved on to the Philippines, where he started a new family, and appears to have remained until 1990, finally dying in 1999 in San Francisco without charges ever being filed. The Los Angeles Record carried related items on its front page for 31 consecutive days, and sales of newspapers surged as the LAPDs investigation continued. His movies include the likes of One False Move, Devil In A Blue Dress, and Out Of Timeall neo-noir classics. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. He immediately afterward enrolled in medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and received his medical degree in June 1936. Jimmie Lee and her adopted daughter, Fauna Hodel, were recently the subject of a six-part television series, inspired by true events, entitled "I Am the Night", created and written by Sam Sheridan, that aired from 28 January until 04 March 2019 on the TNT network. A physically imposing man, Hodel is tall and broad with a dusting of white hair and a gentle demeanor like Santa Claus, vibrating on a darker frequency. It would take years for her to discover that her biological parents were actually white. George Hodel was a doctor, so he would know enough anatomy to be able to perform a clean dissection and exsanguination. the Black Dahlia. He worried that there was no way to accuse his father of the Zodiac murders without seeming loony. 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 Hodel. SHARE. It has been speculated that Fauna was Tamar's daughter from that incestuous relationship. She said that she certainly hopes not. Its nun versus AI in Damon Lindelofs new series. I thought he offered mostly circumstantial evidence, then acted as if the case was closed.. He asked her if she remembered when they used to play under the bed together. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. Kay, an assistant district attorney at the time, agreed to review Steves work. Now thats doing your business in luxury. And, indeed, legendary pianist Rachmaninoff was said to have visited George during his prodigious adolescence, though theres nothing to prove he outright dismissed the young charge as emotionally inert. During the call, she heard the same suspicious echo and clicking sound, as if someone was listening in.Johnny never showed up on the day he was supposed to arrive. Was Fauna Hodel a mixed race? In 1949, Dr. George Hill Hodel was accused of molesting and having sex with his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar. But he was convinced his investigation had unearthed enough new material to justify a fresh look from law enforcement officials. It was nothing more than a series of overgrown lots with a scattering of houses. Fauna is, understandably, pretty steamed by thisbut mostly at Jay. At age 26, the former soldier was the youngest deacon in his church, the father of a young daughter, and worked as a laborer. 1965. Steve woke up early on 16 January (a day after the anniversary of Shorts actual murder on 15 January 1947), and drove at 6am to his childhood home on Franklin Avenue. On a brisk morning in January three years ago, Steve decided to re-enact the drive that he believes his father took the night he killed Short. I had spent all of this time and effort and blood, sweat and tears establishing my credibility in Black Dahlia. Fauna never teamed up with a ruined reporter to investigate the mysteries of her origin. ", "BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: Retired LAPD detective reveals new evidence pointing to prime suspect his father", "Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia", "Anatomy of a Podcast: Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia- DNA Test Answers Question of Fauna Hodel's Paternity", "A Rare Tour of Dr. George Hodel's Whimsically Weird Childhood House", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Hodel&oldid=1140979512, Michael, Steven, and Kelvin Hodel, sons by Harvey, This page was last edited on 22 February 2023, at 19:11. At the funeral, Fauna wondered why the casket was closed. Thats the hot story, to Peter. 8:25pm. Numerous writers have written books about the case. [2] Hodel's medical degree also aroused suspicion, given the hypothesis that whoever bisected Short's body had some degree of surgical skill. Steve has also asserted in recent years that George was responsible for the Zodiac killings, among other sensational crime sprees, though the one rumor he has tended to debunk is his father having fascination with Satanism and the occult. Itd be a great way to get audiences engaged and invested in whats happened to her and what shes going through.. 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." Jimmie Lee - One Day She'll Darken Jimmie Lee Jimmie Lee was born in Mississippi and worked in the cotton fields. Steve Hodel at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. [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. George was a grandiose doctor with a distant personality who abandoned the family shortly after Steves ninth birthday, eventually moving far away to the Philippines. gma news pagasa weather update today 2021. Faunas step-grandmother Corinna (played by Connie Nielsen) is a stand-in for Georges onetime wife Dorothy Hodel, mother of Tamars half-brother Steve and ex-wife of Georges childhood pal, Hollywood legend John Huston. Hodel attended South Pasadena High School, graduated at age 15 and entered California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. Hes like a pit bull, his brother Kelly Hodel says. Feeling like a voyeur, he perused it. 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). Steve, who is now 74, isnt the first person to claim that hes solved Shorts murder; hes not even the first to claim that one of his parents was the killer. It was small enough to fit in his palm and bound in wood. Hes been saying all along that George Hodel was a scandalous figure in Los Angeles because of his illegal abortion clinic. Not for Faunas lack of trying in the interim years. Her adoptive mother was an alcoholic who could at times be abusive. Things you buy through our links may earnNew Yorka commission. Cataloguing evidence has been Steves life for the last 15 years, during which the quest to connect his father to Shorts murder consumed his life. "Fauna's mother, a former lounge singer, still consumed by bitterness from the injustice of Jim Crow Mississippi and a life of missed opportunities and squandered chances." Sparks, Nevada. They cant talk to my secretary any more because shes dead., Lopezs discovery of this file the surveillance, the confirmation of his dads place on the suspect list was a redeeming moment for Hodel, and he still beams when he talks about it now, more than a decade later. Sullivanonce againwarns him not to bother with any of that boogeyman shit about George Hodel being the Black Dahlia killer. Dr. Hodel obtained criminal defense attorney Jerry Giesler and was acquitted after a three-week jury trial. Lets Do the Thing: How Online Were You in February 2023? George Hill Hodel Jr. was born on October 10, 1907, and raised in Los Angeles, California. Twitter. That's what his son, former LAPD homicide detective turned private investigator Steve Hodel (Fauna's uncle), believes. The information in the book is in part derived from journals that Fauna had written throughout the first 25 years of her life. Involuntarily worldly. I would study my birth certificate. However, suspicion of Hodel was not publicly known until decades later. Facebook. Birth date: December 16, 1938. But his son Steve still believes he's guilty of the killing. Fauna was heavily involved in the production, but legal issues and a lack of money led to the film being shelved. Ultimately, all of his investigations have produced precious little in the way of real results. After Dr. George Hodel landed on the LAPD's radar when he was accused of molesting his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar, the police began looking at him as a suspect in the unsolved Black Dahlia murder case, which by then was over two years old. This meant that Dr. Hodel could have been both Fauna's father and grandfather. To sidestep the age of the evidence, Steve relied on carefully assembled anecdotes. hortly after receiving the news of his fathers death, Steve Hodel found himself sorting through his belongings. Also, in the book, Jimmie Lee doesn't get stabbed by George Hodel. What happens to Chava? According to The Guardian, Hodel was on a list of six primary suspects in the. [1] He was never formally charged with the crime. Martin's letter claimed that both he and "GH" personally knew Springer and that he believed "GH" had also killed her. Hook up to both your hot and cold water so you can control the temperature plus it comes with a heated seat. Shorts two closest family members, her mother and her sister, are dead. did george hodel stab jimmie lee 21st May 2022 . The New York Times gave it a rave review. And then there is the transcript of the period in 1950 when the police were bugging George Hodels home. He called June Hodel, his fathers widow, first, a conversation that ended up being their last. No harm came to either of them so the letter remained unreported and in the family's possession for 70 years until discovered and read by Martin's granddaughter. In a re-release of the Black Dahlia Avenger, Steve writes that hes angry that major papers, like the Los Angeles Times, have chosen to ignore the story. According to Fauna's website, the Hodel family gave baby Fauna to Jimmie Lee, a young black woman who worked at a casino in Nevada. Alleging she got pregnant following a rape, Tamar claimed that her father had given her one of the back alley abortions some said he regularly performed on others. Frankins an under-sung hero of American cinema and television: a former actor (guesting in dozens of crime shows in the 70s, the greatest decade for TV detectives), who became an unusually sensitive and crafty director for the big and small screens. The movie also stars Charles S. Dutton, Bobby Hosea, Tess Harper and Jill Clayburgh. Or as Sheridan himself describes it to Metro,I quickly figured out that if there was this guy, this character whos the classic noir foil, then this would be a way to structure the story of Fauna Hodel. While law enforcement officials disagree about whether Steve Hodel is a brilliant vigilante or an obsessive crackpot, no one has been able to prove him wrong. [12][citation needed], Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 19:11, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia, "George Hill Hodel Jr (Deceased), South Pasadena, CA California", "Introduction: A death and its aftermath", "Does this old letter finally solve the mystery of the Black Dahlia? But not without ups and downs along the way. [2] After another four children, they divorced in the 1960s; she was later a member of the Philippine Congress as Hortensia Starke. When I had that, that was kind of the moment where I said, OK, case solved, says Steve. Jimmie Lee taunted Fauna by telling her that she could pick up a phone and call Fauna's grandfather (by birth) anytime she wanted. Once, when I referred to an officer on the case with the wrong title, Hodel lunged forward, his eyes narrowed, and began a well-rehearsed monologue on the officers role in the case. Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. In early 1960s, a teenage girl looking for her real father and a disgraced journalist seeking closure find themselves drawn into a web of secrets revolving around L.A.'s most infamous cold case, the Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short) murder. George Hodel was a notorious Los Angeles doctor whose sexual proclivities and surgical knowledge have led many to believe that he killed Elizabeth Short. Yes. Here youve got independent corroboration that he was in fact the prime suspect, he says. George Hodel was an American physician. It brought him back to Los Angeles, where he now spends his days in a modest apartment, documenting his fathers supposed criminal past in a snowballing body of work including four books, a play and a frequently updated blog. Decades later, she would explain to Fauna that she did this "because in my little world I believed that black people were made of far superior stuff than the whites I knew" (One Day She'll Darken). Once he gets his teeth into something, he doesnt let go.. So, at best, Jay Singletary is a combination of a number of different reporters and detectives who investigated the Black Dahlia murder, but there is no single person on which the character is based. She struggled through years of poverty, bigotry, an alcoholic mother, sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 16, and loss. 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. George was also the main suspect of murdering Elizabeth Short, who is known as Black Dahlia. Tamar Hodel Fauna naci cuando Tamar tena diecisis aos. Temperature-controlledHook up to both your hot and cold water so you can control the temperature plus it comes with a heated seat. LAPD at that time was actively investigating the Springer and Black Dahlia murders and had publicly identified them as "probably connected". Head Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay described himself as highly impressed by Steve Hodel's research and conclusions and even went so far as to declare the case had been solved. Patty Jenkins explained to GQ that her I Am the Night co-writer (and husband) Sam Sheridan had the light bulb go off about introducing Singletary to help thread the needle of drama and memoir. Fauna wondered whether Johnny had been killed because of the sexual advances he had made toward her on the phone. Tamar passed away in 2015 at 80 and Fauna died of breast cancer on September 30, 2017. At the time, George Marshall's 1946 noir film The Blue Dahlia starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd was a popular movie and was still in Los Angeles theaters. Less impressed was active Detective Brian Carr, the LAPD officer then in charge of the Black Dahlia case which was still officially open. In the car, after we left, I asked Steve what he thought his father would think of his investigation. The affair between Hodel and the woman caused her marriage to fall apart.[4]. After his father died when Jackson was 18 years old, he took over working on and managing the family farm. The Weeknd responded to a Rolling Stone story claiming the show is a rape fantasy with a clip of his character calling the mag irrelevant. Sowden only lived here for a few years. nebraska teacher salary by district. 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. Photos of Elizabeth Short dressed in black were sent to the press after her body was discovered, which prompted the Herald-Express to dub her "the Black Dahlia". Before she knew what her grandfather looked like, an older gentleman got out of a limo and approached Fauna and her daughter Yvette in San Diego. Tom Brady to spare us his stand up comedy phase, Gold Standard: Oscars edition - Best Picture. Thats not even taking into account Jays recurring nightmares, which have been a consistently disconcerting fixture of this story for weeks now; or the way hes withholding key facts from Fauna. Expired 12:59. When police and state. My children represent the color of love." When she was a child, she learned that she had been given away as a baby and had actually been born at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in San Francisco. Every day, hed get up at five in the morning and hed be up in his room doing research, Michael recalled, I was just impressed with his dedication.. Best Known For: Jimmie Lee Jackson was . Her adoptive parents were black. She is a major character in 'I Am the Night' and is portrayed by Golden Brooks. The famed physician and VD clinician was eventually acquitted before the end of that year. The file revealed that in 1950, Hodel was a suspect of the Dahlia murder. Also, in the book, Jimmie Lee doesn't get stabbed by George Hodel. If theres any kind of noteworthiness in his life, it probably came from this. In 1949, he went on trial for molesting his 14-year-old daughter, Tamar. Was George Hodel really an incestuous, Satanist monster trained by Rachmaninoff?I Am the Nights portrayal of Hodel introduces some fictionalized elements, but the salacious core of his character is mostly based in fact. Poverty, bigotry, an assistant district attorney at the time that George Hodel played. 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