SYMHC Classics: William Desmond Taylor Murder
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This 2017 episode covers the early days of Hollywood, and its reputation for debauchery. When a high-profile director was murdered, it added to that image, and revealed that Taylor, like so many in Hollywood, had lots of secrets.
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| 0:00.0 | In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets. |
| 0:04.8 | Seven thousand bodies out there or more. |
| 0:08.5 | A forgotten asylum cemetery. |
| 0:10.6 | It was my family's mystery. |
| 0:13.0 | Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Larison Campbell, and this is Under Yazoo Clay. |
| 0:24.2 | Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok. |
| 0:32.2 | You come across a video of a teenage girl, and then a photo of the person suspected of killing her. |
| 0:38.1 | It was shocking. It was very shocking. Like, that could have been my daughter. Like, you never know. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm Jen Swan. I'm the host of a new podcast called My Friend Daisy. It's the story of how and why |
| 0:48.9 | a group of teenagers turned to social media to help track down their friend's killer. |
| 0:53.6 | Listen to my friend Daisy on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.5 | Hey, you're listening to On Purpose with Jay Chetty, and today my guests are none other than |
| 1:06.9 | Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco. |
| 1:10.1 | What I felt for Benny, it was everything about him was honest. |
| 1:14.6 | He'll tell me anything that he's feeling and it made me feel like I could do the same. |
| 1:20.3 | If we would have met each other when we were younger, it would have never worked. |
| 1:23.8 | Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:30.6 | What's up y'all? |
| 1:31.4 | I'm A.J. Andrews, pro softball player, sports analyst, and the first woman to win a Rawlings gold glove. |
| 1:36.9 | On my new podcast, dropping diamonds, we dive headfirst into the world of softball by sharing |
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