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By Tim Healey

ISBN-10: 0600570096

ISBN-13: 9780600570097

A part of a sequence of books which examines real-life tales that experience made newspaper headlines around the globe, this appears to be like at crimes of ardour.

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George I cannot stand to see you knocking poor Dorero around like this. ” Meanwhile, I’m busy trying to pull Dorero out of the tub. We were all stark naked. Madi Comfort’s two lovers—George and Dorothy (“Dorero”) Dorero Hodel 1942 George Hodel circa 1950 The photo on left was taken in October/November 1942. It shows Mother holding her newborn son, my younger brother, Kelvin, as I look on while standing on the fencepost. Based on the timing, this photo would have been taken at the hilltop “tremendous mansion” described earlier by Madi.

This quick overview brings us to about the point in time when, according to Madi’s manuscript, she met my parents. So, I will let her take over the narrative from here with her own very unique perspective. With the exception of some minor spelling corrections, I am going to present Madi Comfort’s writing and words here exactly as they appear in her manuscript. I have changed NOTHING. These are her verbatim descriptions, written some twenty or thirty years past. I have, however, inserted in bold my own comments to assist the reader in understanding or to clarify a specific person, place, etc.

But look at what she has left us. Madi’s memoirs, written decades ago, just like the DA’s secret “Hodel Black Dahlia Files,” have now in the twenty-first century presented us with new evidence and new confirmations into what the DA and the LAPD knew back then. Madi Comfort’s boyfriend, George Parkington at a 2010 meeting with author at Whittier Museum Whittier Daily News, September 27, 2010, announcing Madi Comfort’s connection to the Black Dahlia Madi passed away in Whittier, California on June 20, 2003, just two weeks after revealing her fifty-six year-old secret to her boyfriend, George Parkington.

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