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More than a dozen individuals were eventually named as suspects by both the press and the police. Newspaper reports at the time were both overwhelmingly sensationalised and speculative, even fabricated, and the murder was used as the basis for much subsequent 'true crime' fiction. Suspects included Taylor's valet and cook Edward F. Sands, valet Henry Peavey who found Taylor's body, actress and Taylor's lover Mabel Normand, neighbour Faith Cole MacLean who might have mistaken Taylor for a burglar, general manager of Paramount Pictures Charles Eyton, child star and teen screen idol Mary Miles Minter, Minter's mother Charlotte Shelby and film actress Margaret Gibson. Gibson reportedly confessed to murdering Taylor shortly before she died in 1964.
(1 February 1922)

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Horfield Prison

Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.

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Thursday 3rd of May 1934 (-) — Murderer Reginald Hinks is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint.
Tuesday 24th of February 1953 (-) — Cricketer and murderer Miles Giffard is executed by hanging.
Giffard had beaten his 53-year-old father Charles and mother Elizabeth to death with a lead pipe on 7 November 1952. Giffard took the bodies and tipped them over the cliff at the end of the garden and then got in the car and drove to see his girlfriend in London.
Tuesday 17th of December 1963 (-) — Murderer Russel Pascoe is executed by hanging by Harry Allen.