George Knowlton

In DADDY WAS THE BLACK DAHLIA KILLER, Janice Knowlton unweaves a tale about her father, using previously repressed memories of incest and brutality. Years after her father’s death, Knowlton said her memory surfaced traumatic experiences, most notably one of the murder of “Aunt Betty.” With the aide of famed author Michael Newton, the book does present many well-known facts of the case, as well as going-ons of the LAPD. However, no specifics back up Knowlton’s claim of her father, George. Knowlton, who committed suicide in 2004, had been thought by many to have psychological problems. Most recently, her sister has posted on the message boards that she thinks the originally “name drop” of George Knowlton was a mistake, and wonders if the caller who conveyed info to his daughter, which was in reference to name in the case file, had confused her father with George Hodel.