Many years later, in Minter’s unpublished autobiography, she admitted that she and her mother were at Taylor’s bungalow on the night of the killing. Famous director King Vidor told people that Minter had ambiguously admitted that her mother had killed Taylor after finding her daughter at Taylor’s home.

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I know. Crazy people. I think the 1920s were in general a really crazy time in some parts of the country.
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Of course I know this story quite well. William Desmond Taylor is an interesting character. Years earlier, he told his wife he was going out to get something and never returned! She declared him dead a few years later and only found out he was not dead but alive, well and rich, after he was dead-hahahaaa Sorry for that silly sentence. He changed his name and high-tailed it to the then, very young Hollywood. He was known to be quite the ladies’ man and was having an affair with Mary Miles Winter. She was a strong copy for Mary Pickford and was playing sweet innocents. Due to this huge story, her career was ruined. There was also his valet that seemed suspicious. It seems Taylor may have played both fields. There is the general consensus that Mary Miles Minter’s mom did the dirty deed. King, a great director, said he knew the truth and always wanted to make a movie about it but never got around to it. You should look up the case of Thomas Ince shot on board Hearst’s yacht, or they say he died by accident. It involves Ince-famous director back then, Heart, Marion Davies and Charlie Chaplin
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Thanks. Truly cut from a different cloth those hay day of Hollywood types.
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