Fauna Hodel

Fauna Hodel (August 1, 1951 – September 30, 2017) was an American author and motivational speaker, who wrote the true-crime memoir One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel, documenting her unusual beginnings and the connection to her grandfather, George Hodel, a suspect in the Black Dahlia murder mystery.

Early life Born August 1, 1951, in San Francisco, Hodel was the first child of 16-year-old Tamar Nais Hodel, and also the granddaughter of Los Angeles doctor and socialite George Hodel. Through her maternal grandfather, Fauna was of Russian-Jewish ancestry. Fauna's birth father was unknown, and the troubled Tamar gave up Fauna for adoption. Because her father was listed on her birth certificate as an "unknown Negro", Fauna was adopted by an African-American family in Reno, Nevada. and given the name "Patricia Ann Greenwade". She spent her formative years not knowing her name or biological parentage. Hodel served as the film's executive producer and creative consultant.

Her memoir One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel

Hodel spent much of the 2000s as a motivational speaker, talking about racial equality and human rights. In February 2019, it was announced that Gentile and Pecoraro were producing a podcast, Root of Evil, which delves further into the book, the miniseries adaptation, and their family history.

In February 2019, the eight-episode podcast, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia, produced by Cadence 13 in conjunction with TNT, premiered. The show ran for eight consecutive weeks and attained a "No. 1 podcast ranking" in the United States.

Death Hodel died of breast cancer at age 66 on September 30, 2017.

Filmography I Am the Night (2019 TV series; writer, co-producer)