TSFU’s 12 Faves of Christmas: Black Dahlia Breakdown Eps. 3&4 - O Hodel Tree, O Hodel Tree
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
This season was A LOT. So many people, places, incidents, etc. to keep track of, especially over the course of a month... so we've taken out the intros and outros from episodes 2, 3 and 4 so that you can just follow the story straight from start to finish. Listen to the Part I first to hear episodes 1 and 2!
Ash and Megan from Give Us Morgue explore the man behind the mystery of who most likely killed Elizabeth Short (aka The Black Dahlia), George Hodel; as well as the generational wake of terror and destruction that he left, causing members of his own family to name the podcast Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia after him.
-In the third installment of Black Dahlia Breakdown, Ash and Megan talk about George's daughter Tamar and the legacy of pain she left in her wake. They also discuss Tamar's first born daughter Fauna, whose traumatic upbringing with her adoptive parents could have possibly been the lesser of two evils, because life with Tamar was a living hell for her other children.
Trigger Warning for SA and highly disturbing themes.
-In their last episode, Ash and Megan go over George's obsession with the surrealist art movement, which dictated his entire value system and way of life. Surrealism is described by Mark Nelson, author of The Exquisite Corpse, as “an interplay of irrationality, eroticism, and violence…”, super stuff to live by.
Trigger Warning for highly disturbing themes.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On the fourth year of the podcast, T.S. You gave to me a noir tale steeped in mystery. |
| 0:10.4 | Hey, everybody, and welcome back. |
| 0:12.7 | Hope you're having as much fun on this little holiday stroll through memory lane as I am, |
| 0:17.8 | because I am having a great fucking time recording these intros by myself |
| 0:22.8 | like a fucking weirdo and re-listening to these episodes which are truly some of my faves |
| 0:29.2 | you guys and oh my fucking God I might have to do a couple bonuses because as I've been going |
| 0:35.1 | through these I was like wait what about this one this one? Ah, what about that one? |
| 0:38.1 | Who knew that picking 12 out of 600 would be super fucking hard? |
| 0:41.2 | Crazy. |
| 0:41.9 | So, anyhow, today and tomorrow, days 7 and 8, or if it's episode 8, then yesterday. |
| 0:49.9 | And today, we will be looking at one of TSFU's most journalistic pursuits ever. |
| 0:55.7 | Our four-part breakdown of the murder of Elizabeth Short, more commonly known as the Black Dahlia, |
| 1:01.9 | and the harrowing and tragic story of the Hodel family. |
| 1:05.4 | So join me and Megan from Give Us Morg for this insane ride through LA's dark and glittering underbelly. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, Haudel Tree, oh, Haudel Tree, you inspired the root of evil. |
| 1:20.7 | What a great podcast. |
| 1:21.7 | I highly recommend you listen to it after this if you haven't already. And enjoy this episode. |
| 1:33.7 | Episode three, Tamar and Fana Hodel. |
| 1:42.1 | So episode two, we talked about George Hodel, the man who murdered her. |
| 1:48.8 | We're 99% sure. |
| 1:50.6 | When you put all the pieces together, it makes sense. |
| 1:54.6 | It makes a puzzle, and it's hard to deny that puzzle that you see right there in front of you, |
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