One Day She'll Darken by Fauna Hodel
with J. R. Briamonte
with J. R. Briamonte
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The following photographs were intended for publication in the book. We decided for expediancy not to include them at the present time. But for those of you interested, we have decided to place them with brief captions.
Tamar at about 16 years old just after she gave birth to Fauna, and before she left for Mexico. Just a year earlier she was involved in the sensational incest trial with her father, George Hodel. He was acquitted of the charge on Christmas Eve and Tamar was branded as a pathological liar. It took her brother, Steve, a former LAPD detective to uncover the truth about their infamous father.
The original birth certificate that Fauna carried with her for many years. She needed to constantly prove to doubters that her father was indeed "Negro"
The old Riverside Hotel in Reno, Nevada was where Louise met Jimmie Lee and offered her the baby.
Jimmie Lee at 18 years old on her way home from the cotton fields in Mississippi, her feet still covered with mud.
This is the home on Franklin in Hollywood that was previously owned by Dr. George Hodel. Tamar visited the home during her teen years and stayed with her father. It is also the site of the investigation into the gruesome murder of the Black Dahlia.
Dr. George Hodel at about 37 years old. His IQ was reported to be close to 200. After the incest trial, he kept a watchful eye from a distance on his family. In the book, The Black Dahlia Avenger, his son, Steve Hodel, builds a very strong case against him as the alleged murderer of Elizabeth Short.
Louise, the San Francisco salon operator that Tamar's mother enlisted to help find parents for the mixed race baby.
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