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Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile hope their families can heal after decades of tragedy.
Over the summer, the sisters started a weekly podcast titled “Facing Evil.” There, they share real-life crime stories while delving into the topic of wellness after enduring trauma. We’ve created a podcast that explores the dark history of our family, including one of the cases they solved, The Black Dahlia.
“We are not true criminals. We are mother’s daughters,” Pecoraro told Fox News Digital. “We wanted to lift people up and hopefully help them move on and not stay victimized. I wanted to use the voice of
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“We were thrown into this arena because we came from this wild story—our mother’s story,” Gentile shared. “But at its core, this is family. It’s a story about the secrets of and what families go through, especially when there’s trauma.And intergenerational trauma is real.We know it only from our families.But we focus on I wanted to guess because people are not born victims. These traumatic scenarios happened to them.
“But there is the aftermath of the families left behind,” she continued. We are talking about crime, but we are telling it so that people and families can overcome and heal.”
The woman is the daughter of Fauna Hodel, who was born in 1951 in San Francisco, California to teenage Tamar Hodel. She was given up for adoption by an African-American family and was raised in Reno, Nevada.
Believing she was biracial throughout her life, Fauna was determined to endure hardships and find out her true identity. It was the 70’s. The patriarch then accused her daughter of notorious Los Angeles gynecologist Dr. George Hodel of murdering Elizabeth Short, nicknamed “The Black Dahlia” after the 1946 film noir. revealed that it was
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In 1947, Short’s naked corpse was found in a clearing. A 22-year-old woman scrubbed her body, cut it in half, and drained her blood. The hopeful New Englander was badly mutilated, with the Joker’s smile slashed across her face. Short’s rose tattoo was also carved from her thigh. It was determined that he had died from shock and bleeding due to lacerations.
Short’s death was the subject of a 2006 film directed by Brian De Palma starring Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank. played the short. In 2019, TNT premiered I Am the Night, a limited series inspired by the life of fauna. India Eisley, who played Fauna, spoke to Pecoraro and Gentile about preparing for her role. Executive her producer Patty Her Jenkins remained close to Fauna until her death in 2017 at the age of 66.
Former LAPD detective Steve Hodel previously told Fox News Digital that he believed his father, George, was Short’s killer. Hodel has written several books about his findings. Two years before her Fauna was born, Tamar accused her father of abusing her. According to the Los Angeles Times, George was arrested and taken to court, but the doctor was acquitted. Tamar died in 2015 at the age of 80. George died in 1999 at the age of 91.
George was suspected of murdering Short, but was never charged in connection with the murder. The case remains unsolved. Before her death, Fauna wrote a memoir titled “Someday She Will Go Dark” which inspired “I am the Night”.
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“Our mother kept her faith when she did all these revelations,” Gentile explained. “She always found her way to overcome, and she loved hearing other people’s stories of overcoming. I think that gave her the courage to move on with her life.” “
According to the woman, Fauna suspected she was the product of incest, but DNA testing ultimately determined she was not.
Gentile said her mother sympathized with Short and never called her “Black Dahlia”.
“For our mom, it’s always been about the victim,” she said. “And I thought that’s what Lasha and I are doing on this podcast. Talking to the victims Who were they? What was their light like to the world before they were soon taken away? My mother has always been focused on finding the light It was dark.”
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“All the major players are no longer on this planet,” Pecoraro recalled. “I don’t know whose answer I can find. [killed Short]I think all we can do now is share our truth. I want to know for sure that George Hodel didn’t do that, I think your mother felt that George was responsible for Elizabeth’s death. But we may never know for sure. “
Gentile said it was aware that women could be scrutinized for hanging so-called dirty laundry because they were discussing a heinous crime that happened 75 years ago. She said they heard it all.
“My mother wanted to share her story,” she said. “It healed her. It brought her peace. It started then. When she found out about the trauma it had inflicted on her family, she found peace in sharing her truth.” I wanted to show that if she were here she would say we are her legacy and we will carry out that message and she said that there is more to this world than evil. I firmly believed that there is good in all things.
“…if you look deep enough in any family, you’ll find some secrets,” she continued. But every family has a dark secret and it depends on how you want to move forward with them.Some choose not to talk about it and that is their right. If you do, other people will want to raise their voices and help others.
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Pecoraro hopes the podcast will shed new light on mothers’ lives and show listeners that talking, regardless of the circumstances, is the first step to finding peace after tragedy.
“Our mom was very open with us,” she said. I think I’m thinking about it.”
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