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Alayna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Who was a good motherfucking guy. A good motherfucking guy. Yeah. You've heard his name. We talked about him on the Rodney Alcala case.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Who was a good motherfucking guy. A good motherfucking guy. Yeah. You've heard his name. We talked about him on the Rodney Alcala case.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

He is known by his colleagues as a good cop and a good guy. Yeah. he offers a very compelling case for who he believes is the killer, his father, Dr. George Hodel. Doctor. Doctor George Hodel. He was a surgeon, right? Yep, he sure was. He believes he killed Elizabeth Short.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

He is known by his colleagues as a good cop and a good guy. Yeah. he offers a very compelling case for who he believes is the killer, his father, Dr. George Hodel. Doctor. Doctor George Hodel. He was a surgeon, right? Yep, he sure was. He believes he killed Elizabeth Short.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

And so do I. At the time of Elizabeth Short's disappearance and murder, Dr. Hodel was a well-known and highly respected physician and the one-time head of the country's Social Hygiene Bureau. Wow. According to Hodel, quote, he was a hard and cold individual with a huge ego whose demeanor bordered on tyrannical. Wow. He said also he was an experienced physician.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

And so do I. At the time of Elizabeth Short's disappearance and murder, Dr. Hodel was a well-known and highly respected physician and the one-time head of the country's Social Hygiene Bureau. Wow. According to Hodel, quote, he was a hard and cold individual with a huge ego whose demeanor bordered on tyrannical. Wow. He said also he was an experienced physician.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

He had the skills, tools, and the space necessary to commit this murder without detection. Because that's the other thing. You need the space for this murder. Yeah. That is something that, in my opinion, none of the other suspects have. They don't have the skills, they don't have the tools, and they do not have the space. Right. You need a lot of space, and it needs to be secret.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

He had the skills, tools, and the space necessary to commit this murder without detection. Because that's the other thing. You need the space for this murder. Yeah. That is something that, in my opinion, none of the other suspects have. They don't have the skills, they don't have the tools, and they do not have the space. Right. You need a lot of space, and it needs to be secret.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Hidden space. She was alive. When her mouth was cut, she was alive. There's going to be, as fucking macabre as that is, there's a lot of noise that was going to be happening here. And he needed somewhere he could do this where no one was going to find him and no one was going to hear him.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

Hidden space. She was alive. When her mouth was cut, she was alive. There's going to be, as fucking macabre as that is, there's a lot of noise that was going to be happening here. And he needed somewhere he could do this where no one was going to find him and no one was going to hear him.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

It really doesn't. He had George Hodel. I want you to look it up. Because I know you're all like immediately going to Google because I also did this. Oh, yeah. Get on it. Look at his house at the time. It's a huge house. Didn't he have like a huge basement? Huge basement. Basement. Huge basement.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

It really doesn't. He had George Hodel. I want you to look it up. Because I know you're all like immediately going to Google because I also did this. Oh, yeah. Get on it. Look at his house at the time. It's a huge house. Didn't he have like a huge basement? Huge basement. Basement. Huge basement.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

I think that was just like it was a labyrinthian kind of basement. Like there was a lot of space. A lot of space, a lot of space away from the rest of the house. A lot of offshoots. There was a lot of people in that house that were willing to do a lot of fucked up shit to save their own shit, to make money, to save their reputations, to get people.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

I think that was just like it was a labyrinthian kind of basement. Like there was a lot of space. A lot of space, a lot of space away from the rest of the house. A lot of offshoots. There was a lot of people in that house that were willing to do a lot of fucked up shit to save their own shit, to make money, to save their reputations, to get people.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

He was also โ€“ he made sure to hire people in his house because he was very rich. He had a maid. He had all kinds of โ€“ Yeah, he was a fucking surgeon. He made sure those were people that he was also fucking, by the way. Yeah. So he made sure that everyone was on his side. Like that's โ€“ he was โ€“ that none of them were going to talk and he had shit on all of them. Yeah. So โ€“

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

He was also โ€“ he made sure to hire people in his house because he was very rich. He had a maid. He had all kinds of โ€“ Yeah, he was a fucking surgeon. He made sure those were people that he was also fucking, by the way. Yeah. So he made sure that everyone was on his side. Like that's โ€“ he was โ€“ that none of them were going to talk and he had shit on all of them. Yeah. So โ€“

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

This guy relied on blackmail. He relied on it, and there was so much dirty shit, and we're going to get into it, but I encourage you to read the book by Steve Hodel. I know. Anything โ€“ I'm just โ€“ he's convinced me. It is captivating. It's a very captivating case. It's one that has too many coincidences for me. And for me, I'm not a big coincidence person. When there's that many โ€“

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

This guy relied on blackmail. He relied on it, and there was so much dirty shit, and we're going to get into it, but I encourage you to read the book by Steve Hodel. I know. Anything โ€“ I'm just โ€“ he's convinced me. It is captivating. It's a very captivating case. It's one that has too many coincidences for me. And for me, I'm not a big coincidence person. When there's that many โ€“

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

It's too on the nose. Now, George Hodel Jr. was born and raised in Los Angeles in the first decade of the 20th century, which was a very big and exciting time for expansion for the city. As a child, he was incredibly intelligent. He consistently scored the highest on every test. He was very, very smart.

Morbid
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)

It's too on the nose. Now, George Hodel Jr. was born and raised in Los Angeles in the first decade of the 20th century, which was a very big and exciting time for expansion for the city. As a child, he was incredibly intelligent. He consistently scored the highest on every test. He was very, very smart.