TNT and Cadence13 are launching an eight-part podcast documentary series, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia, a companion to TNT’s six-episode suspense drama I Am the Night. The series will premiere Wednesday, February 13.
I Am the Night, from director Patty Jenkins and writer Sam Sheridan, and starring Chris Pine, is slated to premiere on Monday, January 28, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) on TNT.
Root of Evil, executive produced by Zak Levitt, EVP of Documentary Content at Cadence13, is the Hodel family’s story in their own words — a behind-the-scenes revelation of their family’s crimes, secrets, and multi-generational struggles carrying the Hodel name. Family members open up and share their own psychological traumas and perspectives on their ties to Hollywood’s notorious Black Dahlia murder.
Yvette Gentile and Rasha Pecoraro, daughters of Fauna Hodel, host the podcast series in the first-person, telling their family’s sprawling story together with other Hodel brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles. This is the first time they have opened up to publicly share their experiences of the family’s dark history with a story that spans generations, including their connection to the infamous Black Dahlia murder.
