Black Dahlia: Cadaver Dog Alerts In Dr. Hodel's Dirt Basement

[RivkahChaya]

I've been following, and it looks like the dogs are really alerting on something. The problem I see, is that without an exemplar, cadaver dogs alert on any human decomp. I can't tell you what the dogs would do with an exemplar, and decomp that old. In other words, I don't know whether decomp that was residua from Short would have any of her living smell left, even if someone did manage to produce clothing she had worn, that had been packed away, and not washed.

Yes, dogs can detect decomp that old, particularly in a place like a basement, I just don't think the police will find anything if they dig, since nothing was missing from short, IIRC. If they should find another body, that certainly suggests Hodel was a killer, and someone who killed one person could do it again, but that kind of thing isn't especially meaningful. The man was a doctor, so who knows what might have been going on. It was the 1940s, and Hollywood, and the doctor apparently was involved in a string of suspicious activities, so he may have performed abortions, since the area certainly had a market for back-alley abortions. Or he may have treated people wounded during criminal activity, who didn't want their wounds reported to the police. Cadaver dogs would probably alert on large amounts of medical waste had been buried in the basement, or even just held there in containers that leaked.

The thing that bothers me is that Hodel had other ways of disposing of a body than a dump, and the disarticulation, the police thought, was for ease of transportation, not part of post-mortem mutilation that the killer enjoyed.

A doctor had means of covering up an accident that qualifies as manslaughter, by simply pronouncing someone death of natural causes, or genuine accident, himself. A doctor has ways of killing someone without it looking like murder. I realize there was a distinct facial mutilation, but I still think a doctor with some sort of compulsion to kill women just to mutilate their faces would do a better job of getting rid of the body.

[Archaic]

Good article

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-homicide.html

Archaic

[Archaic]

Cadaver dog alerts 4 times in original dirt basement of suspected Black Dahlia killer Dr. George Hodel:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#axzz2JuZuCibO

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Best regards,
Archaic