The Hollywood Murder Case
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Last published Mon, May 6, 2019
William Desmond Taylor was many things, a gentleman, a film director and many more. But February 1st, 1922, Taylor was murdered in his Apartment. on the floor with a bullet hole in his chest. With a murder so Monstrous and scandalous in this era of stardom but one question lingers, who killed William Desmond Taylor?
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