Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel

by Steve Hodel, Ralph Pezzullo

Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Dahlia Avenger

Former LAPD detective Steve Hodel compiles never-before-seen evidence that reveals his father as a serial killer who may have been responsible for some of the most infamous murders of the last century- including the Zodiac killings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425236314
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/07/2010
Series:	Berkley True Crime
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	827,845
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Steve Hodel was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1963. During his career at Hollywood Homicide, Steve was promoted to Detective II and in 1983 was the senior field homicide detective. He received more than 75 commendations and handled over 300 separate murder investigations and had one of the departments highest “solve rates. “ Steve promoted to Detective III (the highest attainable rank in detectives) and retired from LAPD in 1986.

Steve established Hodel Investigations in 1986. Steve has been a licensed California Private Investigator, conducting mainly criminal defense investigations, for the past 23-years. He worked over six-years as lead investigator on a high-profile international murder case which resulted in an innocent man (Yoshikuni Okubo) being released from prison in Tokyo, Japan and reunited with his family, after five years of detention.

Steve’s first book, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder published in 2003. Black Dahlia Avenger is a New York Times Bestseller, a NYT Most Notable Book and was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category.

Editorial Reviews

Steve Hodel's 2003 Black Dahlia Avenger ranks as one of the strangest and most captivating true crime book of recent times. In this book, which has since published in multiple editions, the veteran LAPD homicide detective named his own late father as the notorious "Black Dahlia killer," the culprit in the grisly 1947 murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short. Hodel not only accused his father of the notorious crime that has spawned numerous books and movies; he named him as a plausible suspect in several other Los Angeles murders. In Most Evil, he provides additional information to bolster his case.