William Desmond Taylor

Director / Actor

• He worked on over 50 films!
• He was president of the Motion Picture Directors Association!
• Who done it?
  • Mable Normand was the last one to see him alive.
  • Henry Peavey the valet found his body.
  • Edward Sands was the prior valet with a history of crimes.
  • Charles Eyton first on the scene with Paramount Pictures cleaned up the crime scene before the cops got there.
  • Teenage actress Mary Miles Minter had a crush on him and had the same type of gun.
  • Charlotte Shelby was Minter's mother that didn't like Taylor and could have caught them in the act?
  • Washed up actress Margaret Gibson who was arrested for prostitution and drug dealing and confessed to a priest that she did it?