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Happy Tuesday, creeps and freaks! This week, Michelle brings us the case of William Desmond Taylor, a prolific actor and director in the height of the silent film era. He was found dead from a single gunshot wound in February of 1922, and to this day, his murder remains unsolved. 

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Source material for the episode:

• https://www.courttv.com/news/co-v-letecia-staunch-stepmother-charged-with-murder/
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1250722/
• https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853336/bio
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002998/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl
• https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Famous_Players-Lasky#:~:text=In%20September%201927%2C%20Famous%20Players,becoming%20the%20Paramount%20Pictures%20Corporation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Shelby
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  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/murder-in-hollywood-a-tale-of-vice-and-vixenshttps://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/wolpert/wdtmurder.html
• https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/murder-hollywood-director-from-carlow