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- Birth nameSteven Kent Hodel
- Steve Hodel is a New York Times bestselling author. He spent twenty-four years with the LAPD, where, as a Hollywood Division homicide detective, he worked on more than three hundred murder cases and achieved one of the highest "solve rates" on the force. He is a licensed PI and author and his first book, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder was a New York Times bestseller and was nominated for an MWA Edgar Award in the Best Fact category. Steve has written four additional books: Most Evil, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Black Dahlia Avenger II, a sequel and an eight-year follow-up to his true-crime investigations and the recently published Most Evil II (Rare Bird Books, 2015). A fifth book, Black Dahlia Avenger III: Murder as a Fine Art, was published in November 2018. His investigations, spanning two decades have been featured on NBC Dateline, CBS 48 Hours, Court TV, A&E Bill Kurtis, Cold Case Files, CNN Anderson Cooper, and the Discovery Channel. Steve's most recently appeared in March 2019 on the Today Show and Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, where he with other family members discussed the making of the hit podcast, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia Murder. Steve's most recent publication are a two-book investigation: The Early Years: The Further Serial Crimes of George Hill Hodel M.D. (pub. 2021). These editions, Part I and Part II present George Hodel's crimes from the 1920s and 1930s. Steve was born and raised in Los Angeles and in 2022 moved to and now resides in Birch Bay, Washington State.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Hodel
- SpousesMarsha Anne Brown(December 21, 1976 - April 5, 1996) (divorced, 2 children)Carole Joan Shefford(March 19, 1969 - April 1976) (divorced)Amilda Cuddy(July 13, 1962 - 1966) (divorced)
- His mother, nee Dorothy Harvey, was married to director John Huston and was Huston's first wife. Dorothy and John were married for seven years. (1926-1933) Dorothy married Steve's father in 1940.
- He has an older sister, Tamar, and a younger brother Kelvin. The early life of Tamar's daughter, Fauna Hodel, inspired the as yet unreleased feature film Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991).
- Uncle of Fauna Hodel.
- He had a twin brother, John Dion Hodel, who died three weeks after birth.
- A 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department and as a Homicide Detective Supervisor handled over 300 murder investigations in Hollywood Division before retiring in 1986. New Line Cinema optioned his bestselling book "Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder" in 2006.
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