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Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia by TNT / Cadence13

Mar 6, 201947:08Society & Culture

Steve Hodel receives a phone call that pulls him out of retirement to investigate the Black Dahlia, a murder that had been ice cold for more than 50 years. The deeper Steve gets, the more he comes to accept his father wa...

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