Has The Murder Case of the Black Dahlia Been Solved?

Dr, George Hodel has been one of the longtime suspects in the Black Dahlia murder case.
Now George's son, retired LAPD Detective Steven Hodel, discovers a decade old letter he believes further links his father to the Black Dahlia's murder.

In weeks after he finished his latest book about his dad and the Black Dahlia murder, a woman named Sandi Nichols contacted Steven and told him that after her mother passed away, she discovered a 69-year old letter tucked away with her belongings.

The three-page letter was written by Sandi's  grandfather, W. Glenn Martin, reportedly used the initials “G.H.” to identify the Black Dahlia killer as well as the suspect in the murder of Louise Springer.

Springer was a 28-year-old woman who was abducted and strangled in 1949 two years after 22-year-old Elizabeth Short’s naked corpse was found maimed and split in two, and later dubbed“The Black Dahlia.”

Steven Hodel says that Martin’s letter only further bolsters the case he has laid out against him.

Martin was a police informant at the time of the murders and appears to have written the letter to protect his then-teenage daughters. 

He feared his knowledge on the Black Dahlia case would put them at risk.

Written across the front of the envelope, dated Oct. 25, 1949 are the words: “In Case of Margaret Ellen’s or Glenna Jeans Death.”
Margaret Ellen was Nichol’s mother and Glenna Jean was her aunt, they were teens at the time the letter was written.The letter begins

“I believe Choate framed this with McCawley to let G.H. get out of it as the known Black dalia (sic) killer.” 
Joe Choate,is a former Los Angeles deputy district attorney, and Sgt. Kenneth J. McCauley, an internal affairs LAPD officer.
The letter continues

“G.H. was grilled by police on Louise Springer death; he and I
both knew her,”
“The investigation officer became G.H. friend, so matter dropped. He threatened to get even with me.”Steven Hodel suspects his father used the information as a successful surgeon and doctor, served in a series of health-related positions that made him privy to the sexual disease histories of the Los Angeles elite, including celebrities and cops as leverage when got caught up in legal troubles.