7 February

Taylor's funeral is held at St. Paul's Cathedral, Los Angeles.

William Desmond Taylor Unsolved

A leading Hollywood director was shot in his bungalow in 1922. The suspects included two film stars and a stage mother, and the case files later vanished.

Jane Gibson, the Pig Woman, dies.

Hall-Mills murder Acquitted

A New Jersey rector and his choir singer were found shot under a crab apple tree in 1922. His rich widow and her brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted.