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Ex-L.A. Detective — Citing Forensic Evidence And D.A. Records — Says Father Was Killer In ‘Black Dahlia’ Case, & Others

//elizabeth short and steve hodel

June 2 2014, Published 2:35 p.m. ET

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Former Los Angeles police detective Steve Hodel said he’s complied enough evidence to accused his late father of up to 10 murders more than 70 years ago — including the killing of Elizabeth Short in the infamous “Black Dahlia” case.

Dr. George Hodel died 15 years ago, Steve said, at which time he rummaged through his father’s belongings and found two photographs lot a woman strongly resembling Short.

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Upon further digging, the one-time investigator said he found clues that dovetailed with his suspicion his father might have been the murderer — like the D.A. making the physician a suspect in the Smart murder, and the 1949 vanishing of actress Jean Spangler, a 26-year-old woman who sought an abortion (George Hodel was one of a scare few who performed the procedure in L.A. during the 1940s).

Like Ariel Castro, George Hodel banned his kids from entering a room in their home, Steve said.

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Possibly most disconcerting was a revelation Hodel uncovered less than two years ago, in N