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

You Only Have One Family

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

TNT / Cadence13

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.618.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

For the first time in decades, the Hodels gather together in one room to confront their difficult family secrets. They try to collectively make sense of their story and answer the question of how to move forward, knowing they can never escape their past.

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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.

0:31.0

Rosh and I have a super tight relationship, a good one.

0:35.0

This is our uncle, Love Houdau.

0:39.0

They really love each other and they got each other's back.

0:43.0

And I admire it to the end of time.

0:47.0

I wish I had their connection with my brothers.

0:53.0

If I were to want something in desire and maybe even something that would soften my heart

0:59.0

and make me cry would be the fact of being that close with my brothers,

1:04.0

which I had when I was really, really young.

1:07.0

But then everybody changes, people change, people morph into whoever they are.

1:18.0

My relationship with both my brothers, I think it would be a lot different

1:25.0

that we've been raised differently, or raised in a normal household.

1:32.0

And that's Uncle Joy.

1:35.0

There'd be a lot more, there'd be a lot more love on communication.

1:42.0

I love my brothers.

1:45.0

But I don't go out of my way to express it.

1:52.0

Growing up, Keeson loved in talk, the funnest in talk, the brothers in talk to the sisters,

1:58.0

the nieces, there's always been distance and not resentment, but less of a connection at certain times

2:05.0

with one family member or another.

2:09.0

The wedge really worked because of Temar.

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