I thought the William Desmond Taylor murder was solved--no one was charged, but I seem to remember reading that he was killed by the mother of one of the actresses he worked with. Because of the drugs angle, Hollywood police coveted it all up.
The the hitch-hiking murders: there's a book called KILLER ON THE ROAD about how the development of the interstate highway system gave serial killers the freedom, opportunities, and (sadly) dumping grounds they needed to commit their crimes. Creepy but accurate.
I read half of this and gave up. The idiot who wrote it had to prove he was a hip, today, happening kind of guy (girl?) by dropping F-bombs all over the place. I'm profane, but not in my nonfiction.
Deb, that used to be the popular idea that Mary Minter's mother had killed Taylor. However, last year's Edgar winner for True Crime (Tinseltown) suggested an alternate theory.
I loved the piece on Elwell. I'm writing about EQ's early influences and this case was one of them.
Cap'n Bob, thanks for your comment about being profane yourself but saying you gave up reading the the piece. Me too! I was surprised. I've been criticized (by very few) for profanity in my books (probably because I'm a woman), and I use it now and then in my life, but the overuse of the f-word in this article only served to interfere with the forward trajectory. That last phrase, of course, written by someone who thinks guns. And thanks to Bill, too, for the forewarning about CRACKED. Too bad.
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I thought the William Desmond Taylor murder was solved--no one was charged, but I seem to remember reading that he was killed by the mother of one of the actresses he worked with. Because of the drugs angle, Hollywood police coveted it all up.
The the hitch-hiking murders: there's a book called KILLER ON THE ROAD about how the development of the interstate highway system gave serial killers the freedom, opportunities, and (sadly) dumping grounds they needed to commit their crimes. Creepy but accurate.
The Taylor case reminds me how Dashiell Hammett said that cases are left unsolved more often because of too much evidence than too little.
I read half of this and gave up. The idiot who wrote it had to prove he was a hip, today, happening kind of guy (girl?) by dropping F-bombs all over the place. I'm profane, but not in my nonfiction.
CRACKED seems to think its readers want a lot of cussin'. I don't know why, but all the articles there are full of it.
Deb, that used to be the popular idea that Mary Minter's mother had killed Taylor. However, last year's Edgar winner for True Crime (Tinseltown) suggested an alternate theory.
I loved the piece on Elwell. I'm writing about EQ's early influences and this case was one of them.
Cap'n Bob, thanks for your comment about being profane yourself but saying you gave up reading the the piece. Me too! I was surprised. I've been criticized (by very few) for profanity in my books (probably because I'm a woman), and I use it now and then in my life, but the overuse of the f-word in this article only served to interfere with the forward trajectory. That last phrase, of course, written by someone who thinks guns. And thanks to Bill, too, for the forewarning about CRACKED. Too bad.
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