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Dr Hodel is put under surveillance after ‘The Black Dahlia’ murder

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Dr George Hodel came suspicion after his daughter, Tamar, accused him of molesting her. The venereal disease doctor was tried and acquitted and when Tamar was later committed to a state mental hospital it seemed that her accusations were unfounded.

Perhaps it was his abuse that had driven her mad?

After Hodel died in 1999, his son a Los Angeles detective, wrote a book in which he said his father raped Lillian when she was just 14 and that he was the killer of more than just The Black Dahlia...