The Truth about Black Dahlia
The unexplained deaths of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a "The Black Dahlia", in 1947 and of Geneva Hilliker Ellroy in 1958, had a profound impact on the psyche of James Ellroy, today's greatest crime writer. Steve Hodel, a retired LAPD cop, reveals everything about Georges Hodel, his own father as well as the perpetratror of those two unsolved murders, the most notorious ones in 20th century America. Steve Hodel retraces this amazing investigation in which genius and horror, Hollywood and the Marquis de Sade, incest and surgery, are blended into the grimmest of scenarios.
Cast
Elizabeth Short
as Self (archive footage)
George Hodel
as Self (archive footage)
Steve Hodel
as self
Tamar Hodel
as self
Man Ray
as archive footage
Paul Teetor
as self
Stephen Kay
as self
jeanne french
as archive footage
Bill Stoner
as self
Geneva Hilliker Ellroy
as archive footage
