Sliding from your mention of noir movie Blue Dahlia (1946) to the notorious murder of the Black Dalia (1947), WIKI names many unindicted suspects including Woody Guthrie, Bugsy Siegel, Orson Welles and George Hodel. The last seems to have been the culprit. His solution of disposing of the body was to display it in a vacant lot in public view, the naked cadaver being surgically sliced in two at the waist and angularly separated.
Why such a brazen and macabre way of disposing of a corpse? The LA detective son of the murderer wrote an absorbing book detailing his father's story - Black Dahlia Avenger. Another book on the subject explores an argument that the killer was imitating surrealist art when Hodel chose his gruesome display. The son confirms that Man Ray was among his father's circle of influential Hollywood friends.
I wasn't familiar with this one. Macabre stuff. Going back to Miles Mathis, he doesn't seem to have written about this one, strangely. There were a lot of weird murders in those times, from the 1940s up until the 1970s, all that serial killer, gruesome stuff. Now psychopaths seems to be more about shooting a lot of people at the same time, without much mystery about their identity, and even publishing manifestos assuming authorship. Times change...
I was reading Hodel's son's follow up book. In it he explores the surrealism theme which other researchers had discovered. His dad's 2 surrealist friends were Man Ray, photographer and Louis Aragon, poet. All 3 were non-religious Jews. Apparently the Black Dahlia wasn't Hodel's only female victim (all gentiles), tho he was never indicted for any of them. He was near genius level and untouchable because of his power position in LA. He was a serial killer in the classic sense - individual sex slayings not revenge mass murders.
The new wave of mass murders seems quite dubious to me. So many victims dispatched supposedly by one deranged perp. No conspiracy help, just a lot of cool marksmanship.
Sliding from your mention of noir movie Blue Dahlia (1946) to the notorious murder of the Black Dalia (1947), WIKI names many unindicted suspects including Woody Guthrie, Bugsy Siegel, Orson Welles and George Hodel. The last seems to have been the culprit. His solution of disposing of the body was to display it in a vacant lot in public view, the naked cadaver being surgically sliced in two at the waist and angularly separated.
Why such a brazen and macabre way of disposing of a corpse? The LA detective son of the murderer wrote an absorbing book detailing his father's story - Black Dahlia Avenger. Another book on the subject explores an argument that the killer was imitating surrealist art when Hodel chose his gruesome display. The son confirms that Man Ray was among his father's circle of influential Hollywood friends.
I wasn't familiar with this one. Macabre stuff. Going back to Miles Mathis, he doesn't seem to have written about this one, strangely. There were a lot of weird murders in those times, from the 1940s up until the 1970s, all that serial killer, gruesome stuff. Now psychopaths seems to be more about shooting a lot of people at the same time, without much mystery about their identity, and even publishing manifestos assuming authorship. Times change...
I was reading Hodel's son's follow up book. In it he explores the surrealism theme which other researchers had discovered. His dad's 2 surrealist friends were Man Ray, photographer and Louis Aragon, poet. All 3 were non-religious Jews. Apparently the Black Dahlia wasn't Hodel's only female victim (all gentiles), tho he was never indicted for any of them. He was near genius level and untouchable because of his power position in LA. He was a serial killer in the classic sense - individual sex slayings not revenge mass murders.
The new wave of mass murders seems quite dubious to me. So many victims dispatched supposedly by one deranged perp. No conspiracy help, just a lot of cool marksmanship.