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Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia

A Skilled Surgeon

Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia

TNT / Cadence13

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.618.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Former LAPD Homicide Detective, Steve Hodel, explains the identity of the Black Dahlia, the circumstances of her murder in 1947 Los Angeles, and how the LAPD's profile of her killer fit Steve's own father, George Hodel.

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0:00.0

Rudevival is a production of C-13 originals, a division of Cadence 13, in partnership with TNT.

0:13.7

This story contains strong language and graphic and potentially disturbing content.

0:20.8

Disgression is advised.

0:30.0

In episode 1, we told the story of her mother, Fona Hodele, and how she tried to track down

0:45.5

her biological mother, Tamara Hodele.

0:49.1

And when she finally did, she began to notice that Tamara was a very different person from

0:53.9

who she'd imagined.

0:56.7

This is a telephone conversation that they had shortly after they found each other.

1:01.4

And this is my grandmother, Tamara's voice.

1:04.1

I felt, from the beginning, when you first came, that you had unconsciously and I do feel

1:09.7

that was true.

1:10.7

And if you were going to hate me for it, but I told it to you before, that you felt that

1:14.7

I gave you a way that was just an inner feeling that I'd given you away.

1:17.8

I told you all along that that had nothing to do with it.

1:21.6

And that's our mom, Fona Hodele's voice.

1:25.0

My situation with you was solely upon the very first time I came to Hawaii and I felt

1:31.2

there was a real manipulative vibration about you and that's why I only stayed in that

1:35.8

house for six days and had nothing to do with you having given me away.

1:41.0

I didn't like what I was seeing.

1:43.3

I felt uncomfortable in it.

1:47.6

It's just like all the people that you've been involved in.

1:50.9

I hear so many bad things and then I hear all these bad things from them about what

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