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Hello, spycast listeners. I want to tell you about another new podcast, this time from

Wundery, called Murder in Hollywood Land. It's about the shocking murder of the famous film

director William Desmond Taylor, who was the Stephen Spielberg of the

1920s Hollywood. The list of suspects would be as long as the Oscars red carpet

and just as star studded. An investigation would eventually shine a light on some of

Hollywood's most scandalous affairs, backroom deals, and shadowy drug dens.

This real life murder mystery is one of the most iconic

who-done-it cases of the 20th century.

It will have you guessing and second-guessing who killed William Desmond Taylor right up to the end.

So we're about to play a brief clip from the show. So make sure to subscribe to Murder in Hollywoodland

from Wundery on Apple Podcast Spotify or listen ad free by going to Wundery Plus.com slash Hollywoodland. In Hollywood, someone, someone Someone is loamsome in Hollywood.

It's Thursday, February 2nd, 1922, shortly after 7 a.m.

An unusually cold morning in Los Angeles, California, but the town will heat up soon

enough because a body is about to be found over at the Alvarado Court Apartments, home to some of the biggest

names in Hollywood.

You've probably seen some of them in the moving pictures.

Like romantic leading man Doug McClain, who was fast asleep in apartment 406. Doug is known as the man with a million

dollar smile. His wife Faith snuggled next to him as starred in films too.

She's certainly pretty enough, but Doug's career is on fire right now.

Who knows if her turn will ever come.

Just across from the McClanes in 402A

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