The Scandalous Murder of William Desmond Taylor
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Published 2018-03-02
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Portrait of William Desmond Taylor
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William Desmond Taylor and Mary Miles Minter
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Mary Miles Posing as Cleopatra
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Actress Mabel Normand
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Mother and father pose with their three year old girl, ca. 1922
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Derby Spectator
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1910s SUMMER 1916 TRAVERS
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Mid Distance View Of Hollywood Sign On Mountain With Cityscape In Foreground
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Old fashioned movie camera on crane
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1950s AUSTIN CAR DRIVING
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1920s 1930s MAN SITTING AT...
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Mabel Normand
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A negligee on a white background
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Elgin Crescent, London, United Kingdom. Architect: n/a, 2013.
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Teddy Bear on Carpet
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Cigarette on ashtray
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Jewelry box with keep sakes and jewelry
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A Symbolical Cheque Design, 1917
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Moot court martial conducted in Law class at the US
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Claire Windsor
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Well-tailored suits is to women what lingerie is to men
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Rocco Perri...
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Vintage handkerchief
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Kissing
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Crying little girl with her fighting parents
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Mary Miles Minter Gesturing
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Couple with Gun Hugging
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Portrait of Poet writing on table in the dark
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Film director smoking cigar behind camera
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1940s OLDER WOMAN IN PLAID...
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1940s BUSINESSMAN AT DESK...
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Caucasian driver standing near car in city
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Suburban houses at night
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Los Angeles
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Dark, spooky, empty office or basement room
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Highly Detailed People Silhouettes
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Oldfashioned Flash
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Burglar stealing jewelry from safe
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Stack of files and paperwork
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Germany
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Gun in Man's Hand
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Holes in a wall
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Entrance gate to a studio, Paramount Studios, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Studio portrait of mid adult man in coveralls
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Fired Caucasian businessman carrying personal belongings
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Antique French Letter Handwriting Old Postcard
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Old Envelope (XXL)
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With the Ships Captain
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Man & Wife
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Thumbtack On Map Indicating Los Angeles
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All Comments (21)
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Ryan's really chalking up that ominous voice in this one.... must be the inner Ricky Goldsworth...
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taylor: exists mary: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX LUV U BB XXXXXXXXXX
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*Finds silky pink nightgown* “I... I think this belonged to a woman”
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How the heck did Shane manage to say 'asdfghjkl' out loud?!
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why is no one talking about Shane's apartment's elevator
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asdfghjkl- "it was a wild scene" wHO WROTE THIS WHO WROTE THIS WHO WROTE THIS
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Idk if it’s because this is about Hollywood but Ryan’s voice over was way more dramatic than usual
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Being shot in the back with his arms raised, could just mean that he was holding his hands up because he saw someone with a gun and was told to turn around by his killer...then shot
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3:28 I've never heard anyone pronounce asdfghjkl so accurately
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"meaning they shot him while they were hugging him" *Cut to Ryan and Shane awkwardly trying to hug* ah, good quality content.
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“Taylor was a homosexual” same Taylor, same
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Hot take: all the actors were in on it, and tampered with evidence by all coming in
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ryan’s voice was particularly vicious in this video i’m concerned
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Me: is home alone Me: knows that I get creeped out easily Me: I should DEFINITELY start binge watching buzzfeed unsolved rn
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If Ryan has kids he’s gonna bring them on the show like “Ready to solve some mysteries buddy?” “Yeah!” “Wanna announce what we’re looking at?” “Today we’re looking at the stolen Mona Lisa” “Good job”
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13:37 Cool little piece of knowledge. $5,000 USD in 1921 translates to $72,602.79 as of Sept. 2020. Also remember Ryan says checks, not check meaning more than one was written so Sands stole at least 72K+
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''she doesnt get a good look" goes on to describe him in great detail lmaooo
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finds pink night gown Detective: ....i think it belongs to a woman.
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The eyewitness who saw the burglar-looking man told media she thought it could have been a woman dressed as a man (hence why they looked like they were dressed up). Actress Margaret Gibson confessed to the murder on her deathbed.
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With this being one of the reasons Mabel Normand fell from grace and died at a young age from drugs, Mary Miles Minter having her career ruined because of this scandal, and Roscoe Arbuckle having his life ruined (and filmography nearly entirely destroyed because studios burned his films) after being falsely charged in someone’s death… social media cancelling has NOTHING on 1920’s moral panic
