Suspect in The Murder of William Desmond Taylor
Taylor's former valet, a forger and deserter who robbed him in 1921 and disappeared.
1922 · Westlake, Los Angeles, California · 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. Read the case.
Dated events
His valet Edward Sands forges checks and burgles the bungalow while Taylor is in Europe; Sands later disappears.