If you could solve just one mystery....

[Story]

Detective Steve Hodel claims his father George Hodel was the Black Dahlia killer, the Zodiac killer and was also responsible for thrill killings in Chicago and the Philippines.

http://www.examiner.com/article/cou...icago-s-lipstick-murderer-all-be-the-same-man

Was he also the Grinch who stole Christmas?

Color me skeptical.

 

[jamespowers]

Was he also the Grinch who stole Christmas?

Yes, yes he was.

 

[vintageTink]

Yes, yes he was.

At the end the Grinch achieved Christmas salvation.

 

[fashion frank]

What really happened to Jimmy Hoffer I'd like to crack that case !

All the Best , Fashion Frank

 

[jamespowers]

What really happened to Jimmy Hoffer I'd like to crack that case !

All the Best , Fashion Frank

Remember that dog food you fed your dog back in the 1970s.........

 

[TheSacredFemme]

The Black Dahlia would be the one, I think. So many men were suspects in that crime, it was lurid and grisly and still is.

I have a friend who told me that her father, who was in the Navy at the time, hung around certain L.A. bars and actually met the woman. He was one of hundreds of men detained and questioned about her death.

Bet whoever the guy was, he's dead today.

I'm sure someone has already replied to this, but apparently the man who killed Elizabeth Short was Arnold Smith, a man who emerged in the 80s and knew notorious details about the case that were never published in the papers. He invented a fake person who was said to have told him about how this person killed her, but the police realised Smith was most likely to be making this person up and thus covering the fact that he was the murderer.

Unfortunately as they were getting ready to arrest him he fell asleep in his hotel with a lit cigarette and died in the subsequent fire. Suicide? Accident? I guess we'll never know. Nor will we know if he did it.

More of the story here:

http://www.bethshort.com/articles/

 

[Alice Blue]

A local mystery that was national news at the time: the murder of Mount Hermon School For Boys headmaster Elliott Speer in 1934. A book was written about it in 2004, and according to the description Speer had made enemies by introducing progressive reforms to the conservative Christian school.

http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mount-Hermon-Unsolved-Headmaster/dp/1555536182

http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/?p=138

 

[Stanley Doble]

Was he also the Grinch who stole Christmas?

Color me skeptical.

You would have to read Hodel's books. He is a police detective who knows how to find and evaluate evidence. He also has family photo albums and other personal information that was not available to the police. He connected the Black Dahlia killing to his father who was an important official in the Los Angeles government at the time. Shortly afterwards he left the country and settled in the Philippines. Steve suggests his connections in the police department tipped him off and allowed him to skip town, avoiding embarrassment to the city government. Not long after this, a serial killer with a similar MO began operating in the Philippines.

 

[jamespowers]

You would have to read Hodel's books. He is a police detective who knows how to find and evaluate evidence. He also has family photo albums and other personal information that was not available to the police. He connected the Black Dahlia killing to his father who was an important official in the Los Angeles government at the time. Shortly afterwards he left the country and settled in the Philippines. Steve suggests his connections in the police department tipped him off and allowed him to skip town, avoiding embarrassment to the city government. Not long after this, a serial killer with a similar MO began operating in the Philippines.

The LA police department did have him as a suspect too. They called him in for questioning so he was at least worthy of suspicion.

 

[fashion frank]

Remember that dog food you fed your dog back in the 1970s.........

You always make me chuckle ,that was a good one !

All the best ,Fashion Frank

 

[Swing Motorman]

I was reading over this intereating thread for fun, and noticed John in Covina brought the National City Lines "streetcar conspiracy." Thought I might share a less than credible thread that I was rather shocked to read... just for how far people will go in clinging to their conspiracy-or-no-conspiracy beliefs.

Before going too far, I should put out my stance on this: I do share the highway lobby conspiracy factor with the public when presenting about transit history, but always in context with other factors. To run a business is to conspire against your competition; whether or not this was criminal conspiracy is either up for debate, or if you believe in justice by jury, the meaningless conviction came in the '70s. But here's a link to some highly opinionated "railfan" forum dwellers with some severe opinions on the issue, and they're not favoring the rail side! But these guys do tend to be on the ultra-conservative, trust-big-business-not-big-government types, so I'll hand out salt shakers as you ladies and gentlemen click the link.

http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35316

To think that someone even suggests booting out museum volunteers for sharing the theory... THANK GOODNESS for the Lounge being a much more civil forum!

 

[Black Dahlia]

I think I've already said this here a few times (over the past couple of years)...but I'd like to solve the Jack the Ripper case and, of course, the Black Dahlia murder.
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[Story]

SOUTH PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — A former LAPD homicide detective unveiled new evidence Thursday that he says reveals who killed the Black Dahlia. Steve Hodel believes the killer was his own father.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013...ather-committed-infamous-black-dahlia-murder/

 

[Dragon Soldier]

Might be just a tad late, but I'd love to know exactly what went on here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

 

[Story]

Might be just a tad late, but I'd love to know exactly what went on here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

Wendigos.

 

[Story]

Who was Emilia?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...cid=maing-grid7|aim|dl1|sec1_lnk3&pLid=366789

 

[Black Dahlia]

Besides Jack the Ripper & the Black Dahlia I'm interested in other cases also.

Who was the Atlas Vampire? Who was the Zodiac Killer?

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[Blackjack]

I thought the Ripper case was a done deal, it was the same guy who the book Devil in the White City was written about. He had the hotel in Chicago where he killed all those people and he was in London at the time of the Ripper murders!!!

 

[Black Dahlia]

Hi Blackjack!

No, the JTR case has not been solved. Many books have been written purporting the case is solved, all with different suspects! The evidence in those books is not conclusive (when there is any evidence presented). People omit a lot of evidence just to back up their wild theories!

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[Blackjack]

Hmmm... I coulda sworn I JUST saw or read that somewhere that they ( while there's no absolute proof) were pretty much all on board that it HAD to be him. I could be wrong, I am most of the time