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

The Troubling Questions

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 March 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Fauna Hodel and her mother, Tamar, both leave their own unique legacies, and their children try to make sense of it all. In doing so, unresolved emotions and crucial questions are raised.

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0:00.0

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

0:14.0

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

0:20.0

Disgression is advised.

0:23.0

The world is the world's most important.

0:33.0

Doc found the river golden as the sound.

0:38.0

It flows along forever with trees on either hand.

0:44.0

That's George Hodell's actual voice.

0:49.0

And he's reading a poem to some of his grandchildren from his Filipino family.

0:54.0

Remember, in 1950, in the middle of the bugging and stakeout of the Franklin House, George skipped town.

1:03.0

Green leaves of floating castles of the poem, boats of mine of voting, where will all come home.

1:14.0

He remarried, and then he spent the next 40 years or so living in Asia, where he began another new family.

1:22.0

In all, George ended up having 11 children with five different women.

1:30.0

Hode goes the river and outpests the mill, away down the belly, away down the hill, away down the river.

1:38.0

100 miles or more.

1:40.0

Other than little children shall bring my votes for a shore.

1:48.0

This is in the heart of San Francisco, and I'm sure these are going for 10,000.

2:05.0

I mean to buy.

2:06.0

To rent.

2:07.0

But to rent, I'm sure the spaces are going for 10 grand.

2:11.0

Easy, easy, easy.

2:14.0

And George lived at the very top.

2:19.0

Yeah, the penthouse.

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