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

George's Gift

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

TNT / Cadence13

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.618.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A deeper look into the life of George Hodel and his children; his interests, his parties, and the horrifying incident in 1949 that would reshape the Hodel family forever.

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0:00.0

Rudevival is a production of C13 originals, a division of Cadence 13 in partnership with TNT.

0:17.2

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

0:23.3

Discretion is advised.

0:30.7

The location we're at here is 51-21 Franklin Avenue, and it's right at the northwest corner of Franklin and Normandy in Hollywood.

0:41.4

This is our great uncle, Steve Hodele.

0:44.6

He's standing outside the historic Souton House in Hollywood, but our family has always called it the Franklin House.

0:52.1

It was built in 1926 by Lloyd Wright, the son of legendary architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

1:01.1

And this was our family home from 1946, and we were here until 1950.

1:10.1

My father was always interested in the unique and different, and certainly this house qualifies in that regard.

1:19.1

It does kind of have an ominous look to it. That's for sure.

1:23.1

It looks for boating, but also it looks like a Hollywood set. It looks like something, you know, what the hell is this?

1:30.1

I think a number of emotions would be a vote from your average Joe Citizen walking by.

1:37.1

It's so different from anything in the neighborhood, but it's also so private and so closed and secret.

1:46.1

I think most people would have a negative or a dark reaction looking at this. It's for boating.

1:55.1

In 1949, our grandmother, Tamara Hodele, was 14 years old, and her mother, Dorothy Barb,

2:02.1

sent her to live in this house with her half-brothers, Steve, Kelly, and Michael, and their father, George Hodele.

2:10.1

One of the interesting things was in regards to Tamar, my half-sister, when she was staying here.

2:15.1

You see this front here, and she would be nude, and she would come out and sit on this ledge completely nude,

2:26.1

and she would pretend she's a statue.

2:31.1

Passerby's walking by would look up, and they'd stare, and then she'd move, and they'd go in the house.

2:40.1

Then, of course, dad, later on, would say, no more nude sunbathing. I think the police are watching me now.

2:56.1

On previous episodes, you heard about our mom, Fanna Hodele, and her journey to find her real mother, Tamar Hodele.

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