five brothers all who were coal miners in PA, and my grandfathers parents She said she didnt know. From there, authorities found evidence that led them to believe that Dr. Hodel was also a . I dont know? Fauna Hodel is likely the child of Tamar Hodel; George may have been her father. C. Crow, C. Crow: En el juicio, George Hodel fue absuelto, Tamar fue acusada de ser una mentirosa patolgica -George cont con el testimonio de su esposa que desacredit a su hija- y fue enviada luego a un centro de detencin juvenil, donde entr en contacto con gente de la comunidad negra. Tamar's testimony was perceived as contradictory and attention-seeking. See blog on it HERE. I suppose thats a normal reaction when pondering a sociopathic ghoul who hates women and is incapable of feeling compassion, warmth, or tenderness for fellow human beings. That happened. George is responsible for my middle name. Hodel's unique perspective on adoption, race relations, and her family history led her to write the unreleased 1991 film Pretty Hattie's Baby, directed by Ivan Passer and starring Alfre Woodard. He asked her if GHH was her father, and other prurient questions. Less impressed was active Detective Brian Carr, the LAPD officer then in charge of the Black Dahlia case which was still officially open. Tamar Hodel was Fauna Hodel 's mother. Carr whose later position was, I dont know who killed her and Im too busy with other cases to look at Steve Hodels evidence and he then retire.d. (That pregnancy was aborted in 1949.). Good Morning Mr Hodel, Much appreciated. Tamar Hodel, the author's half-sister, is a case in point. After Tamar gave birth to Fauna, her maturity began to appear and she eventually had four additional children, Elizabeth (also known as Fauna II), and three boys, Peace, Love and Joy. 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. Steve, Steve, I hope Tamar Hodel, Fauna's birth mother, gets to write her own book. Deborah is Tamars daughter, my niece fathered by Folksinger Stan Wilson, who changed her name to Fauna II some years later. Soon after, the father and daughter were. Although the Hodel family has many more skeletons than other families, you all are dealing with this by acknowledging, acceptance and healing. 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. The theme of incest and murder at the end of the movie is so clear to me made me wonder why John Huston would have taken such an interest in the acting part, as he rarely portrayed a character in films. I know youre old, and probably still stuck in the olden times, but it is 2021. 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. Tamar is the mother of the five grandchildren of George Hodel interviewed in Root of Evil. whats next? Steve, where in Donegal does your mums family come from ?Im fascinated here in Donegal lol. Under the pretext of illness, he petitioned their father, King David, to send Tamar and her culinary skills his way. Geraldine M or Martha J: Top 10 Professions favoured by Psychopaths 3. Mom still loved him. Tamar's childhood was no less than a nightmare, as she was first sexually assaulted by her father at 11 years. Soil samples confirmed his findings. Involuntarily worldly. Christina M.G. Tamar Hodel . That's in the original newspaper coverage, which most people haven't read. Family dynamics are so complex, and I thought my family was the archetype of dysfunction. The podcast also features audio from old interviews with Hodel's biological mother Tamar (who died in 2015), as well as George Hodel's son Steve (Fauna's uncle), who has claimed his father was . It is confusing. Negro is absolutely offensive and disrespectful when used flippantly, without care for the hurt it causes so many. Im a little confused about a response you gave another poster. Two weeks ago today, my half-sister, Tamar Nais Hodel, passed away in her sleep. Tamar NOT GEORGE named her first daughter Fauna after a Robinson Jeffers poem just as her father had named her Tamar after a poem by Jeffers. That was created from the fictional mini-series, I Am The Night which is 95% fiction. Hodel graduated from Berkeley pre-med in June 1932. Oz/Phil(?) It actually made me think about a movie that I never watched (and dont intend to) called A Serbian Man. Its really suspicious for me to see a comment from Fauna herself in May 24, 2019 when she supposedly passed in 2017. Theyre listed as retired from the Los Angeles Times and its my impression theyve kept a blog and contributed to an online journal called The Daily Mirror. [2] The full details of the investigation came to light only in 2003, when a "George HodelBlack Dahlia File" was discovered in archives at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. When did Tamar die? Thank you. LAPDs refusal to look at it has I think, all to do with IMAGE. Unfortunately for us, Tamars autobiographies were never completed. I wanted to let you know that I just finished Root of Evil and I thought your work on it was amazing! 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. Traumatic Reenactment - Root of Evil: The True . Even then, I tend to leave room for the story to change, if that makes sense. The DA tapes recorded him saying:[2][4]. Hi Steve, She had gone to her father at age 12 and asked him to name her doll for her. C. Crow. 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). The Root of Evil producer Zak Levitt was able to obtain DNA analysis and a review of the results by one of the world's leading experts, which positively eliminated Dr. George Hodel as the biological father of Fauna Hodel. One of these stories was as I have related in BDA, telling me of her going to our father at age 12 and asking him to help her name her the Black haired doll she had just received from her mother for her 12th birthday in late March of that year. Now, through never-before-heard archival audio and first-time interviews, the Hodel family opens up to reveal their shocking story. Fauna with her two daughters Rasha, left and Yvette right. LAPD at that time was actively investigating the Springer and Black Dahlia murders and had publicly identified them as "probably connected". 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. Springer was garroted on June 13, 1949, just two blocks from where Short's body was found in 1947.[9][10]. Childhood & Early Life. If this is true, it astounds me that he had a close enough relationship with her to name her child. Who knows what evil lurks in Men and what drives them . Here I was fascinated reading this. Did he remain a mystery? However, suspicion of Hodel was not publicly known until decades later. I dont know if it was ever asked and answered but why did the second daughter change her name to Fauna 2. The reason being that her mother Dorothy Anthony Barbe Hodel was originally from Portland, Oregon and married a symphony conductor from that city. However disgusting and disturbing A Serbian Film might be, I think there are some striking parallels between the madness of the main antagonist and George Hodel, so I encourage you to watch the preview and read the Wikipedia article. Well, as you know from reading BDA I started out confident I would be able to exonerate my father and easily prove he had no involvement in the horrific crime. Cath. Thank you for clarifying. Tamar Nais Hodel formerly Anthony Born 24 Mar 1935 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States Ancestors Daughter of George Hill Hodel Jr. and Dorothy Grace (Anthony) Barber Sister of Michael Paul Hodel [half], John Dion Hodel [half] and [private brother (1940s - unknown)] [half] [spouse (s) unknown] Mother of Fauna Hodel For your information, this old guy doesnt have a racist bone in his body thanks to my mothers teaching and raising me and my brothers to love and respect ALL RACES from our childhood. Dawn: Yes, Dangerous Friends is an excellent read and very well written by screenwriter, Peter Viertel, one who KNEW. Though truth be told it never was. The other part of me hates the stronger monster inside him, the evil Mr. Cheers. Other than that, if at all possible, I wish you peace of mind !! Point is I was a teenager Not an adult when I became Fauna. Two separate victims from the 1930s cases (unrelated to each other) attended school (one in high school and one in college) with George Hodel and the suggested motive, as in many of his crimes, was his hatred of being rejected by them in his youth. ET. Tamar says her father raped her when she was 14, and her . Hodel, the younger's investigation presents four (4) potential crimes committed in the 1920s and nineteen (19) crimes believed committed in the 1930s. 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]. Although Corinna Hodel, the ex-wife of Fauna's grandfather, George, told her that Tamar was dead, Fauna discovered her birth mother is alive and living in Hawaii during the Feb. 18 episode. 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. Thank you. The Martin letter, reproduced in full in the chapter "Afterword" in Black Dahlia Avenger III,[8] went on to name "GH" on 17 separate occasions identifying him as a personal acquaintance of Martin's as well as of McCauley's, and named him as the killer of both Short and of a second lone woman, Louise Springer, the "Green Twig Murder" victim. Get it? The late Fauna's two real-life daughters, Gentile and her half-sister, the 40-year-old Rasha Pecoraro, host a podcast, " Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia ,". Marie J: In the 1930s, he was legally married to Dorothy Anthony, a fashion model from San Francisco; they had a daughter, Tamar. Our father did see Tamar on occasion through the decades when passing through Hawaii enroute to the U.S. Men like that dont change and remain flat earth believers until the end. [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. 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. [7], Hodel had two children, Yvette Gentile and Rasha Pecoraro. (See full description and details in Tamars own words as to the how and why of it below.). Im sure it wasnt easy for you to figure out what your father was.. Homer Faison with Fauna at about 5 years old. Thanks for the kind words and your response to the other comments by Layla. The famed. Carr took the position, Could be him? The blogs go back more than a decade. One of Dr Hodel's daughters, Tamar, recalled her father hosting elaborate parties at their Los Angeles home, with guests including Man Ray as well as the doctor's movie star friends and clients. Its a shame because it seemed she cared so much about GHH victims. He teamed up with LAPD detective Brian Carr (now long retired) and together they did a few TV shows and Det. (1921-1969). On the cold, sunny morning of Jan. 15, 1947, a woman walking her 3-year-old daughter in the Leimert Park neighborhood found the mutilated corpse of Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia." Thirteen miles away from the crime scene is where many experts believe Short's murderer lived and possibly where he killed her. Hi Patti. The Hodels lived in a Hollywood Home, designed to look like an Mayan Temple, with hidden passageways and secret panels. Many of my HODEL family members ARE BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL. trying to take advantage of a sensational case. 2: Lawyer Just as many television shows/movies/books often use terms that are racist and deeply insensitive when referring to anyone who isnt a straight, white, Christian person in order to give an accurate representation of the time and place the story is set. Tamar married folk. And, of course, 95% of the material in the IATN miniseries is fictional. I have followed this entire story through my childhood into adulthood and it amazes me how strong and telling you are. Jimmie Lee struggled to raise Fauna in Sparks, NV. 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? If so, I want to believe that wherever she is, she now knows the truth. Fauna's strange story of Fauna Hodel starts in Reno, Nevada, when a woman offered Jimmie Lee Faison a child in the bathroom of a casino. He immediately afterward enrolled in medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and received his medical degree in June 1936. Tamar Hodel, who was mad at her father because he wouldn't allow her to get an abortion. He was a copyeditor of the LA Times who had dreams of solving the Black Dahlia Murder with To be continued. You said that, no, George was not the father, and that that pregnancy was terminated. I Will be publishing The Early Years next year which covers his pre-Dahlia crimes and hopefully that will allow me to get out of the twenty-plus back hole. In my most recent publication, Black Dahlia Avenger III, I devote an entire chapter on my half-sister presenting as best as I could, both sides, attempting to provide readers with a fuller Nature and Nurture cause and effect, along with identifying some of the failures on her part to assume responsibility for her actions. Kathleen K: We know that Fauna since meeting Tamar, her biological mother always knew the truth that her father was A White Italian Male that gave her mother alcohol then raped her in San Francisco. Tamar, was straight with her from the getgo back in the early Seventies. I continue to present my fathers additional crimes and am working on what I hope will be the last book, The Early Years covering his crimes from the 20s and 30s. See also The Huston Letters chapter in BDA II that documents correspondences between my mother and John during and after the incest arrest. Even the Doctor who was thought to be Jack the Ripper managed to kill many women and then move to another state continuing to con people out of money as well. Fauna's own daughters, Yvette Gentile and Rasha Pecoraro, have been helping to tell their mother's story following Fauna's death in 2017. Tamar remained in touch with her father; unfortunately, he also abused FaunaElizabeth. 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. I made no review about her book from its publication (2008) until just a few months past, so 11-years of no comment.. Hodel attended South Pasadena High School, graduated at age 15 and entered California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. 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. 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. He died in 1999, at the age of 91. Yet, it very much is. Tamar claimed she had posed for nude photos for Man Ray when she was just a child. 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. Tamar and her half-brother, Steve, remember their father's house as a place. 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). 16-year-old Tamar Nais Hodel was the mother, and Faison was told that the baby's birth father was Black . Clearly, his role as Noah Cross was an indication and I believe a definite reference to what he knew, though, in real life, George was not the father of his granddaughter by way of his sexual relations with his fourteen-year-old daughter, Tamar. You may not have realized he was using such language only in quoting another person. George Hodel wasn't Zodiac. Born in 1907, the only child of George Hodel, Sr. and Esther Hodel, he was a musical prodigy with an IQ of 187 . I read Black Dahlia Avenger back in 2008 and I loved itI couldnt put it down. Who is Fauna Hodels father? He claims to be related to Fauna. Carr, admitting that he had not read all of Steve Hodel's materials, added, "I don't have the time to either prove or disprove Hodel's investigation. Much appreciated. In an interview conducted by the authors on August 16, 2005, Tamar . Hi Joan. Steve- Ive recently finished reading DANGEROUS FRIENDS which has a lot of background on John Huston, who as you know, was well connected to Fred Sexton. Thanks to books from Hodel's own children and a successful adaptation of one of them as the TNT mini-series "I Am the Night" starring Chris Pine, Hodel has been accepted by many as the leading suspect in the Dahlia murder. Martin's instructions were that his letter was to be opened only in case of harm coming to either of his daughters. I think she lived in the room next to mine. I have read a few times that it was he who gave her second daughter, Fauna, the middle name Elizabeth after Elizabeth Short. Thanks. It has been speculated that Fauna was Tamar's daughter from that incestuous relationship. Dr. Hodel obtained criminal defense attorney Jerry Giesler and was acquitted after a three-week jury trial. Just seeing things from both sides. Much Love, Uncle Steve. Next? 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. Hard to have a conversation with a serial killer/psychopath and or to get any straight answers from him. 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. Jamie anne allman as tamar hodel - aloha (2022) - imdb. She was eighty years old. Faison was told that a mixed race baby was being born and the mother was too young to keep it. He did see her back in the early-mid Sixties and did take Fauna II (Deborah Elizabeth, daughter of Tamar and Stan Wilson, the folksinger) out alone for dinner. I do have a question, if you believe that your sister Tamar had no relationship with your father after the trial, does that mean you think Fauna lls story about George Hodel photographing and molesting her is made up? From where her handbag was found (Griffith Park) and Elisabeth Short was found (Leimert Park). Its generally meant to group people together often based on stereotypes and ignorance, to other. No movement on DNA testing by LAPD. Fauna passed away shortly before the DNA results came out? Were doing okay I wish yours had acted sooner.. ( my sister and her family ), Olivia P: Hodel came to police attention as a suspect in the Elizabeth Short murder in 1949 after the sexual abuse trial. Most assuredly, YES. Are you investigating your fathers activity in Asia? She would have been 13 I believe. I, myself, am not using the term Negro Im quoting its use as told to me by Tamar when she described her father listed on her daughter Faunas 1952 birth certificate as Negro. Throughout my writings, I also use the term Negro on the physical descriptions of suspects as described by witnesses from the 1940s and LAPD officers. The show ran for eight consecutive weeks and attained a "No. "Things could not get any more weird . or so we thought," Gentile said of the situation. Christina: She had five children. Tamar Hodel was an incorrigible liar and problem child who made "unfounded complaints" and lodged mass accusations against her father and more than a dozen high school students. Image courtesy of TNT. He is a major character in 'I Am the Night' and is portrayed by Jefferson Mays. Daughter of George Hill Hodel, and Dorothy Grace Anthony Barbe (17 April 1911 - 12 October 1995). In the evening, a cook shot himself in the head while inside his hotel room after failing to reconcile with his wife and child. It was a fortress from the world," says Tamar Hodel, one of 11 children the doctor had by five different women. The podcast includes many of the actual investigative findings and linkage of Dr. George Hodel to the Black Dahlia murder, establishing that according to secret police records he, in fact, knew and had dated the victim in the 1940s. Working on The Early Years which will hopefully be the last book in the series and will cover his crimes from the Twenties and Thirties, so stay tuned. Thank you for the kind words and well wishes to me and my readers. Of course, my niece, Fauna in real life never met my father, nor was she ever at the Sowden/Franklin House until long after his death in 1999. Fauna was born to a 16-year-old, Tamar Hodel, in 1951. Margo: No, Tamar and George did not have a relationship AFTER the trial going forward. In the first episode of their I Am the Night companion podcast, Root of Evil, they featured a recording of their mother talking about when she first met Tamar and her brothers and sister in Hawaii. 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. (1947) (This would have been just nine weeks after he murdered Elizabeth Short.) I just wish we knew more about stopping these crimes before they start. Suzi F: No, not really. Again, there's not too much information out there, but at the time. You are a rare person to rise above a nightmare environment and land grounded. 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. Patti L. Im well aware of what century this is. Carr's opinion was that Hodel's theory was based on a few intriguing facts linked together by unsubstantiated supposition. As far as the hosts of Root of Evil, I had never actually met my great niece Rasha prior to our appearance on the Dr. Phil Show a few months back and had only met her sister, Yvette on two brief occasions, with her mother Fauna, more than a decade past. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. the Black Dahlia. Hes been writing them for 18-years now, ever since my first book, Black Dahlia Avenger published in 2003. Plus, hes a doctor. McCauley, LAPD Internal Affairs Division). Below is a PDF containing the complete seven pages as included in BDA III Chapter 6, Tamar Nais Hodel. George Hodel was a notorious Los Angeles doctor whose sexual proclivities and surgical knowledge have led many to believe that he killed Elizabeth Short. Before and after the trial. (I believe he was a conductor for the Portland Philharmonic Orchestra.) Paddy: [9][10], In February 2019, the eight-episode podcast, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia, produced by Cadence 13 in conjunction with TNT, premiered. Hodel's daughter, Tamar, escaped the house in 1949 after accusing her father and others of sexually assaulting her during one of the many parties he would throw at the estate. (A claim hes made over the past twenty-three years.) Another book, an autobiography by a daughter of Tamar Hodel who was given up for adoption, is the inspiration for a fictionalized drama mini-series about the Black Dahlia murder by director Patty Jenkins, scheduled to air in 2019. . Fauna with Jimmie Lee. 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. 2. Id be interested in hearing your thoughts too. Grandfather, REALLY twisted her mind & values. This is fascinating. Fauna second row extreme right at her first grade photo shoot. The Martin letter made it clear that "GH" was known and protected by law enforcement officers, and that they "let him go." 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. 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. That child was Fauna . Taken as an infant from her teenage mother, Fauna was placed in the care of a working-class black woman, who raised the white child as her own. His "crime spree" would total fifty victims over a nearly fifty-year time period. 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. Though the father was. They might meet for dinner on rare occasions. I just have one question.if you were able to speak to your father today, what (if anything) would you say to him? Thanks for everything you did to clear this case up. Nevertheless, Id have to dive deep into the sea of evidence youve provided before I could feel more confident. I also wish our police personal were honored more for all that they do to keep us safe. [5][6] Hodel served as the film's executive producer and creative consultant. I imagine they are heartened that someone is working so tirelessly to solve her case. At that time she and no one else had a clue that I was investigating our father for suspected crimes. [2] Their only son, he was well-educated and highly intelligent (scoring 186 on an early IQ test). Thoughtprint Press) presenting possible crimes committed in Northern and Southern California by George Hodel in the 1920s and 1930s. My story is very similar. Sometimes you have to heal the best way you know how and your feelings are very valid.