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The Murder Of William Desmond Taylor

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Episode 295 recaps one of Hollywood’s first and most sensational murder cases. After his death, the mysterious past life and personal entanglements of William Desmond Taylor lead in a dozen different directions, but none apparently toward a solution to the case. But there’s a reason the case aroused so much sensation.

The victim's mysterious past and a tangled web of relationships made the shocking murder impossible to solve.

Culled from the historic pages of the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers of the era.

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