The Scandalous Murder of William Desmond Taylor
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Portrait of William Desmond Taylor
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William Desmond Taylor and Mary Miles Minter
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Mary Miles Posing as Cleopatra
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Actress Mabel Normand
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Mother and father pose with their three year old girl, ca. 1922
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Derby Spectator
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1910s SUMMER 1916 TRAVERS
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Mid Distance View Of Hollywood Sign On Mountain With Cityscape In Foreground
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1950s AUSTIN CAR DRIVING
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1920s 1930s MAN SITTING AT...
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Mabel Normand
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A negligee on a white background
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Elgin Crescent, London, United Kingdom. Architect: n/a, 2013.
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Teddy Bear on Carpet
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Cigarette on ashtray
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Jewelry box with keep sakes and jewelry
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A Symbolical Cheque Design, 1917
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Claire Windsor
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Well-tailored suits is to women what lingerie is to men
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Rocco Perri...
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Vintage handkerchief
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Kissing
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Crying little girl with her fighting parents
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Mary Miles Minter Gesturing
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Couple with Gun Hugging
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Film director smoking cigar behind camera
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1940s OLDER WOMAN IN PLAID...
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1940s BUSINESSMAN AT DESK...
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Suburban houses at night
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Los Angeles
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Dark, spooky, empty office or basement room
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Highly Detailed People Silhouettes
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Oldfashioned Flash
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Burglar stealing jewelry from safe
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Stack of files and paperwork
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Germany
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Gun in Man's Hand
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Holes in a wall
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Entrance gate to a studio, Paramount Studios, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Studio portrait of mid adult man in coveralls
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Antique French Letter Handwriting Old Postcard
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Old Envelope (XXL)
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With the Ships Captain
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Man & Wife
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Gustavo Rosa - GFX Artist
I feel like there should be a little poll at the end of each unsolved video for us to vote on who we think was the suspect
GREAT IDEA!!!
OMG YES PLEASE
YES. That would be damn good!
That's SUCH a good idea
Samantha S. Yaaaaaasw
3:28 I've never heard anyone pronounce asdfghjkl so accurately
Lol it sounded like 'asdfgh-fooya' 😂😂
You made my day Lizzy 😂😂😂
idk if u know this but the comment ur stealing is from the same internet we’re on
@@dunderheadgood Imagine thinking there are multiple internets lmao
AnonUser ma what r u talking ab .. who said that 😭😭😭 lmao
“..shot him while embracing him-“
*immediately gets up to hug*
Being shot in the back with his arms raised, could just mean that he was holding his hands up because he saw someone with a gun and was told to turn around by his killer...then shot
Polite Teardrop wtf are you talking about
@@ibuprofriends yeah I don't get what Trump has to do with this at all....
@Polite Teardrop what does trump have to do with this. I mean I don’t like the guy but
"meaning they shot him while they were hugging him"
*Cut to Ryan and Shane awkwardly trying to hug*
ah, good quality content.
That's what I was thinking!
taylor: *exists*
mary: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX LUV U BB XXXXXXXXXX
Alex Ramirez more proof that Shane is a demon
How the heck did Shane manage to say 'asdfghjkl' out loud?!
i replayed that part like 5 times over and each time i was like hOw??!!!
When?
@@samarthalinegwesinie1136 3 min 30 seconds
3:28
it was impressive lol
Me: *is home alone*
Me: *knows that I get creeped out easily*
Me: I should DEFINITELY start binge watching buzzfeed unsolved rn
Rita Stuckert same
Bruh I’m watching this alone at midnight
Me: wakes up at 3 am mysteriously....
My Brain: *Speaking of Mysteries!* ...*binge watching spooky shit*
Same. Excelt i have my 2 yr old nephew with me.
Me Right now
Idk if it’s because this is about Hollywood but Ryan’s voice over was way more dramatic than usual
I think Ricky goldsworth was taking over the whole episode
That's Hollywood baby
he kinda sounds like a chad
He's imitating a Film Noir narrator
He should put on that persona more often!
"meaning they shot him while they were hugging him"
**Cut to Ryan and Shane awkwardly trying to hug**
ah, good quality content.
Advintarine 🤣🤣🤣
4:36
Is it possible that the dude just had his hands up. As if the killer was holding a gun to him. Just saying my first thought wasn't a hug
@@jeannietarantola4523 keep it in the pants jesus
👌
Ryan’s alter ego: Ricky Goldsworth.
He was so in character
Minty Skullz I can’t stand it though
Ryacky OTP
Y Liang * Mr. Hyde
Shit was too funny
Hola Isw
He’s very in character cause Ricky Goldworth is a demon my dude
ryan’s voice was particularly vicious in this video i’m concerned
in the q&a he said he said he was trying to sound like rod serling
@@starryeyedgirls_ which q&a?
@@jaybestboy8099 the william desmond taylor q&a
I love it
i noticed that too like damn
**Finds silky pink nightgown**
“I... I think this belonged to a woman”
idk man we said the same thing when my great granddad died turns out he just really liked dressing up in womens clothing
well they did mention taylor was rumored to be gay.
@@Ememe404 you almost made me spit out my food
Fatima Pi good :)))))
Whoever found it was thinking like a COWARD
BuzzFeed Unsolved is the only highlight of my fridays
Zico Tops for me it’s Saturday
8-BitAnimator it's saturday at my place too
Buzzfeed Unsolved and Dead Meat is highlight of my Fridays
Deadmeat and Buzzfeed Unsolved are the highlights of my fridays
Sunday in my place
is it just me or is ryan’s unsolved voice extra spooky today
Colleen C. No its extra nasal sounding! He sounds horrible!
Colleen C. I think he's trying too hard in this one on purpose and I get it, but it's not for me
It's kinda pretentious
Colleen C. It sounds like he's forcing the wheeze too.
I think Ryan is sick
''she doesnt get a good look" goes on to describe him in great detail lmaooo
meaning she didn't see his face
Describing half of the men in Hollywood
Well its easy to see a beard or no beard
Its common, eye witness just believe what they didn't see, just mind games, overthinking adds up, no fault of the witness.
Yes bc getting a good look at someone’s face and describing what they’re wearing are in no way mutually exclusive.
Hot take: all the actors were in on it, and tampered with evidence by all coming in
Ah, a Murder on the Orient Express gambit
@@tairneanaich lmaooo I came here to comment that
you could say they were.....
payed actors :]
_asdfghjkl_- "it was a wild scene"
wHO WROTE THIS WHO WROTE THIS WHO WROTE THIS
_asdfghjkl_ he keyboard smashed 😂
they sounded it out😂😂😂
i like how that doesn't even sound like what sound he made the guy who does those screens must have just been like **runs finger across keyboard** **asdfghjkl** *alrighty that looks good*
Shane should always speak like that! 😳😂
lmmaoo
Ryan's really chalking up that ominous voice in this one....
must be the inner Ricky Goldsworth...
His inner Chyllzzzzzz
@@rd-yr6ww number 15
Buzzfeed unsolved extended universe: C.C. Tinsley is fresh from faking his own death and hot on the heels of Ricky Goldsworth and his heinous organization.
i hate it
Must be
did shane just keyboard smash irl?
When m8?
Bro
@@cheezenugget3230 3:28
@@galaxyspice5805 thanks! XD
jess brimage Yes. Yes he did
13:37 Cool little piece of knowledge. $5,000 USD in 1921 translates to $72,602.79 as of Sept. 2020. Also remember Ryan says checks, not check meaning more than one was written so Sands stole at least 72K+
@Pranit CHHABRA It's a simple google search
update: this amount is now up to $84,033.52 in 2023.
I'd kill a man if he stole that much money from me
Ok we need a Ricky Goldsworth/C.C Tinsley Crossover
What if CC Tinsley did have a run in with Ricky... And that's why he went missing.
it wasn't cc who went missing.....I thought so to but it was another unnamed guy lol @@Zorayah
@@razkable I think you're right, I remember Shane making a joke about 'help has arrived, wait send help' in the same voice so both private investigators merged into one entity for me.
YES!
Sounds like a case for C.C Tinsley
$78 then was equivilant to over $1,500 today. I'm suprised it WAS left untouched.
i mean, everyone living in his area was already rich so,,
꿀 you kidding? The rich would grab it faster than the poor.
Close. But it's more accurately $980 today. Still a good amount of change
I wish I could go back and live rich on nothing oh the fun I'd have c:
@@LordHoth_90 so true 🤣🤣🤣😂
3:28 Shane just made an actual keysmash with his mouth what
B-atiful! HE REALLY DID WHAT AN ICON
B-atiful! Omg he did 😂
Loool
i'm dead :D:D:D:D:D
Shaniacs Unite!
If Ryan has kids he’s gonna bring them on the show like
“Ready to solve some mysteries buddy?”
“Yeah!”
“Wanna announce what we’re looking at?”
“Today we’re looking at the stolen Mona Lisa”
“Good job”
I can imagine this and this is so cuteee
Shane: doesn’t have kids. Brings his cat.
“Can you make a snarky remark for me?”
“Meow” “That’s my boy”
@@jynxedjellyfish I would watch this
bring your kids to work day
Omg. This is just too cute.
Out of everything, ‘blessed baby’ scares me the most.
Evie Laurent reminds me of Bhad Bhabie and that’s among the last people on earth I want to think about
I mean, we call our lovers "babe" and "baby" and blessed I guess means that he sees her as perfect, like a goddess.
But blessed baby together reminds me too much of the infant Jesus. Not a cute pet name at all.
Evie Laurent that's just a pet name
Evie Laurent More than Mary impersonating her dead cousin? 😓
Maybe it's a kink thing...
Ryan pronounces “February” like 5 different ways in this ep alone lmao
"She was on drugs?"
"Yes"
"MABEL!"
👏👏👏😂👍
Yeah, she saw a dog talking in reverse for some reason once- wait wrong Mabel
i love this new episode of gravity falls
The Halo Scrolls Gaming hahahaha
@@thehaloscrolls391🤣
“Taylor was a homosexual” same Taylor, same
Katarina Stanworth aren’t we all?
We’re all a little gay...
Relatable
Chronic Sleepiness if ur quoting Harry styles......👏👏👏
If ur not...you’re unknowingly quoting Harry styles.
a chick with wifi oh shit! I was not, in fact, quoting Harry Styles
*finds pink night gown*
Detective: ....i think it belongs to a woman.
maybe he was really a crossdresser O.O
I can't stop laughing😂😂 your profile picture and name fit this comment so perfect😂😂😂😂😂😂
oh yeah 😂 lmao
😂😂😂😂
Agent Beyoncé ay. You don't know what Taylor had been wearing to bed
omg he abandoned a family - what if his son/ or one of the abandoned family members killed him???
Kathy P he had a daughter but I reckon his ex wife hired someone. She had to get a divorce by the state because nobody could find him, he'd just up and left. The pawn ticket with the stolen items on it said something like 'selling the assets', sounds like something that would happen during a divorce to me
kezlou87 supposedly he left them when he joined the military and when he started doing movies they saw him on the silver screen and contacted him through the studio to which he made a trip out to meet his daughter and make her his legal heir
J Wat he started in Hollywood the year after his wife divorced him, so god knows. I reckon it was his wife, or given that it was the 20s a relative of hers who thought he'd dishonoured her in some way
Love your picture 😘❤️
If you bothered researching that much, why not keep reading find out he had a daughter, and not a son, and that she was made his legal heir? Also, they lived out east, did they not? You'd have to prove they were in California at the time? DERP.
The eyewitness who saw the burglar-looking man told media she thought it could have been a woman dressed as a man (hence why they looked like they were dressed up). Actress Margaret Gibson confessed to the murder on her deathbed.
Why did she do ir
@@shayuh1244 during that same time, there was a trial going on accusing actor and director Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle of raping and murdering an actress. During that trial, a lot of hollywood stars' private lives came to light, so it is suspected that she murdered Taylor because of blackmail.
A.N. Van Maastricht do you know why? Why wasn’t she in the video?
@@natalyaporter5730 I don't know why she wasn't covered in the video, I mean I found all this on wikipedia, the article on the murder linked directly to the page of Gibson.... but she most likely did it because of blackmail (she either felt he was a threat or perhaps he was part of a certain incident or other that people could use against her)
@@anemonenova8694 Probably this information came out after this video
have you guys heard about the death of actress Thelma Todd? she was found dead in her car in her garage. it was ruled suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. however she had a broken nose, cracked ribs and bruising all over her neck. just thought that would be another old Hollywood case that would make a great true crime episode.
John Eggers I want to see them investigate the "suicide" of Dorothy Kilgallen.
Tim Evans what
they just did this one!
hey hey hey
i LOVED ryan's extra theatrical voice
i also love ricky goldsworth. would love to see him showcased more often
16:54 that pause and sudden switch from Ryan to Ricky is terrifying.
Yeah... 😨
With this being one of the reasons Mabel Normand fell from grace and died at a young age from drugs, Mary Miles Minter having her career ruined because of this scandal, and Roscoe Arbuckle having his life ruined (and filmography nearly entirely destroyed because studios burned his films) after being falsely charged in someone’s death… social media cancelling has NOTHING on 1920’s moral panic
Shane's really elaborate and totally necessary elevator sex story
lol I really loved that part
Taylor Anderson if you’re going to try and troll, at least copy it correctly...
The case re-enactment is amazing.
I know! I'm so proud of Zach!
I dunno. I feel like I’m in the unpopular camp where I just don’t like it.
@Sarah Moore
Thank you! I seriously had to pause the video at 8 minutes because I just got so sick of it. All the visuals are either too detail specific (pink nightgown) that it just seems like a freaking episode of law and order, or they're too unrelated that I can't focus on the story Ryan's telling. I love the original format, where they'll just show semi-related pictures. It's easy to remember names when you can connect them to a specific stock-photo image. And it's easy to follow the timeline because there's generally an actual timeline photo.
I even tried semi-shutting my laptop and closing my eyes so I could just listen, BUT THE DAMN GUN SHOT JUST KEEPS GOING OFF LIKE IT'S SUPPOSED TO MAKE IT SCARIER BUT IT JUST KEEPS TAKING ME OUT OF THE STORY.
Sarah Moore agreed. Can we make this stop please? Just have the pics and stuff like the old days. It makes me not want to watch the vids anymore because of it.
Michelle Quinn that's like saying "then just don't watch the video"
Still sounds weird when Ryan says February.
slimkt Exactlyyy
FEBS!
I thought he did better this time! But hey we all have certain words we just say differently than most!
LOL
Feh bee airy
Mabel and Taylor sound like a gay best friend dynamic. Mabel yelling him that she’s going out to dinner with another guy doesn’t seem like the kinda thing you’d tell a lover
That makes sense actually
Idk sounds like she was trying to make him jealous after being given the cold shoulder.
It absolutely DOES sound like the kinda thing you’d tell a lover (in anger, I mean) especially at that time
Both theories make sense, tbh.
I took the 'Hindu prince' line as a joke between the two, to be honest. Maybe bc I doubt she actually had dinner with a Hindu prince? It just sounds outrageous, like something you'd say jokingly. I could see her making that crazy claim to cover maybe meeting up with another woman? Crazier things have happened.
He thinks it belongs to a woman.......No, of course not, it was Charlie Chaplain's famous Silk pink nightgown lol.
why not? judgmental much?
69th Like woot woot
i think it’s meant to mena like ‘he was not a cross dresser’ kinda thing
@@moduspwnenz most likely due to gender stereotypes at that time
Lanwarder oh yh he took it on that boat with him 😂
(Jk)
the black and white scenes are cool af and fit perfectly with the crime and scene and the eyes of that actress in the scene being the only thing with color looks really good
Francesca Di Dio This is so well done. The best reenactments.
I'm rewatching this and I feel like the bullet being from the back with his arms up is more likely to be a "freeze, put your hands up, turn around, etc." kind of situation rather than a hug. Especially if there was an exit wound
"asdfghjkl"
-shane 2018
RestInPeaceXXX rip xxxtenteacion 💗💗💗💸🔫💗💗💕💕💕
Genesis Baires stop
Horribly Amazing why should i you are not my mom
"lemme rub it off on this carpet"
-ryan 2018
he said what he had to say!
i've never heard someone say asgdjkl in real life. I've always wondered what it sounds like and now i know. thank you shane.
Anna 😂😂😂
I like how Ryan was forced to say February so many times in this case
I love that they say the pink garment "resembled a nightgown" like. was it? not a nightgown? it's not hard to tell what a nightgown looks like? was it shredded? what? happened?
Ricky Goldsworth needs a movie. Maybe straight to TV, or like Hulu exclusive, but a movie nonetheless.
Em B with a special appearances by CC TINSLEY.... ha!
More like a series. That’d be awesome.
a series instead of the hotdaga!!! it has become annoying Shane!
Techno Bliss and an apperance by the elusive and beautiful, Francesca Norris
and his arch-nemesis Banjo McClintock
Imagine if this whole time, Shane was a demon and Ryan was a serial killer.
Wouldn't that be a plot twist.
ShadowMoon Niko itd be the next Supernatural.like honestly i think it'd be just as big. X'D
I need a book written with this plot
ShadowMoon Niko na shane would be a maniac
@@ryannjones5926 a maniac demon?
Gee Wae Oml never thought about that
nobody:
Mary: (ominously) "if I can't have you, no one can"
also Mary: "lmao oops my finger slipped sorry for the bullet babe"
O. My. God. This episode was amazing. The reannactments. The animated signatures and street and apartment scene. The black and white with pop of colour scenes. The music. The clock zooms. THE WHEEZES. THE HUGS. Okay, there's more but this is already long, I love everyone who worked on this video and you guys👌👌👌👌
Rr
I wish people would just confess to murder when they’re in their death beds.... these unsolved mysteries are so unsettling....
ipsita mahajan and if they survive? also no one would believe them probably
U know how movies do like there’s someone dying n they say their last words.... I confess to a murder.. then dies😅
I'm going to confess to an unsolved murder on my death bed just so I'm not bored in the afterlife. It'll make things interesting for my family.
how does ryan’s girlfriend take him seriously, he probably dirty talks in the same voice
OHHH NOOOO HAHAHAHAA😂😂😂😂
it's ricky
Silence Harmony harmony no😂
jayla HELP EUBSJDJS
jayla IM LAUGHIG AUSBSB
I find it weird that it says Taylor only acted in one film. He actually acted in 27, so ya might wanna check your sources Ryan. Love the series, but still. All the facts matter, even if they're not relative to the case
Yeah, I have occasionally seen inconsistencies so while I love the series, I don't take it as stringent fact when I can help it, just more of an appetiser to make me more aware of peculiar cases or the confusing nature of our world? 🤔
@@leedent7260 tbf if they covered EVERYTHING, the video would be an hour long. I agree that sometimes they miss important info, but I feel like the generally give a good sense of each case
@@antilikka yeah, true and it is all entertaining anyway and I see these as edutainment so to speak, but not outright documentaries?
@@leedent7260 A documentary by these two would be pretty awesome.
Can we talk about how good of a director Korndiddy is? Because this reenactment is amazing.
IS THIS DIRECTED BY ZACH???? WHAT
Viktoreia Yep! Ryan said Zach was directing it in the last Q+A
Viktoreia yep! You can check Ryan's instagram to see a short bts where Zach was in it!
When your boy still can't say February
Montana Smith 🤤😍😍🤤
The man who said goodbye to Taylor must have been involved as she said that he was the one who closed the door. It occurred to me... who closes the door of someone else’s house when they leave? Surely Taylor would have done so if we were still alive
Calling your significant other “baby: “ fine
Calling your significant other “blessed baby:” weird
#logic
#IJustFoundOutWordsHaveMeaning
I even find it weird to call a significant other "baby".
it is weird man
blessed baby? what r u, a priest lmao
easy way to hide a fling in code...
I swear every new episode that's uploaded Ryan starts to sound more and more like he's gonna explain to us that Number 15 on the list is 'Burger King Foot Lettuce'
Emma 😂
NO THIS IS SO TRUUUUUUUEEUUEUEUE
Best comment.
BRO YOU DONT KNOW HOW ACCURATE THIS IS
Emma I can’t stop wheezing
Can Ryan narrate my funeral BECAUSE THESE REENACTMENTS GOT ME *S H O O K*
Emma Lay kpop fan? hahaha lol!
Eli, they never said for them to stop saying the word.
ibl haha how can you tell
Going back to the homosexuality theory-
Is it possible that the man was a pissed off lover? Maybe a lover mad about Taylor’s abandoned family, or jealous over Mabel or Mary?
My exact thoughts.
*looks like you’re jumping…*
*to conclusions*
I’ve jumped, I’ve landed
XD
Yep!
I’m jumping, I’ve jumped, I’ve landed
Rodney Lim its all about timing- gotta comment/ post when most people are online in order to get noticed
"HUH"
5:22 "He believes the pink nightgown belonged to a woman."
Glad we got an expert on this case.
well maybe Taylor liked to dress in a women's nightgown - who knows?
Why do I feel like there's a "february" in every episode
it is pronounced feb-you-ary, isn't it? have I been doing it wrong my whole life?
At least he says it correctly now
Its feb you ary
Paloma Burnham 😂my bad
Why do i feel like i see your fucking profile picture in every comment section lol
I feel so bad, so many murders seem to take place in February and Ryan still can't say it, poor guy
Maybe it wasn't a "hug murder".... maybe the killer pointed the gun at him and told him to put his hands up and turn around, because the killer couldn't look him in the face and pull the trigger.. idk
But then he wouldn't have landed face up. Unless the killer posed the body after killing him.
@@camijoy3001 I mean, I'm fairly possible you can fall either way when you get shot somewhere that isn't an instant fatal shot
I was thinking that or maybe the suspect was shorter? And maybe it wasnt in line of sight?
But there was an exit wound. If the killer had shot him while he was turned away, there would have been blood splatters and the bullet would have likely been lodged in the wall or gone through it.
Makes more sense than shooting someone in the back while embracing them. That's hella awkward to pull off plus it's 50/50 you shoot yourself in the process
Is it just me or is Ryan's voice a tad bit more sinister during the voice over than usual.
It's Ricky Goldsworth taking over.
Keiru XD I remember that in one of the episodes,thanks for the good laugh
XxRAYMONDxX 9997 yeah it was this one...
Yesssss
I think he's sick. Because his voice is hellavu me nasally
I see that they’ve added some scene reenactments in this season. Cool.
probably because they've gotten more funding or money (idk)
MegaZazzy (W H E E Z E)
*Ryan:* "I love you, I love you, I love you." ...
"X X X X X X X X X--X." This part cracked me up.
Lexa Pavilion same😂
him reading it in his dramatic unsolved voice made me laugh
lol I was waiting for someone to comment on that😂😂
Guys this is srsly one of the best episodes when it comes to all the reenactments, music, editing and filming aspects, GREAT JOB TO ALL THE CREW! 👏👏👏👌😁
And most importantly,
the *wheeze* is back 👌😂
I'm sorry but I can't take Ryan seriously when he tries to say "February"
Julie Nguyen Febyeeary 😂😂😂
It sounds normal to me, honestly. I've been listening out for the word February more, though. XD
Haha finally someone who noticed that. I've been thinking that since the beginning of the series 😂😂😂
Jürgen Weber lmao no.
Fr
The "(phone drops)" part of the transcription made me snort-laugh.
imagine knowing who your killer was and then everyone else not knowing and never finding out..it’s like when there’s a bad guy in a tv show and we(the viewers) know he’s bad but all the rest of the characters don’t know and it’s so frustrating...I meannn..
Cheney Denoy ikr
Cheney Denoy that darling is called dramatic irony
Just like every serial killer movie in the world
The only reason why I look forward to Fridays!!
Ishan Ali True 😂
for me its saturday
Not the weekend? You fucking loser
He doesn’t have any fucking friends so his only thing to look forward to is instead of being with friends on the weekend, is to watch a 20minute youtube video.
Trueeee
I feel they should make a separate channel for unsolved !! anyone agree?
Yes!
Yes. Then I can subscribe to it and get notifications on time. I don't subscribe to buzzfeed because for every unsolved video they have 10 idiotic stuff like 'people get their colon cleaned by professionals'.
Kimberly Thornton that would mean less attention since they would start all back from 0
Subhajit Deysarkar I feel the exact same way
Kimberly that would be the paid subscription solution.
Shane's story about the Woman moaning in the elevator made me spit out my juice...🤣
Im sorry but someone in the comments said that Ryan sounds like he’s talking in iambic pentameter and i cannot stop laughing now.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME
Jo Yin BRUH SAMEEEEE
Jo Yin damni like your channel header thingy with all the groups on it
Lmao
The onion that Namjoon couldn't cut thank you fellow ARMY XD
Man, the production of these Unsolved episodes has gone way up- they've got actual actors in every episode now and everything.
Fiach Verity Somebody has a budget.
it's that sweet youtube ca$h money
I know right
Fiach Verity Yep.
Fiach Verity Was about to type that lol but yeah it's awesome. A lot of work has gone into it.
I think Charlotte Shelby hiring a hitman to do the deed makes sense. Because only a hitman would need to ask where Taylor lived. The others knew him and knew where he lived.
Why wouldn’t she knew where he lived?
I am really digging the reenactments please keep doing them
i can’t be the only one who thought the love letters were SUPER creepy.
Yes, they hide bad intentions. Wierd
Mara Marx x bad intentions? Wdym
She was apparently about actually only 11 years old, so once I think about it like that, I feel like it... might make a bit more sense.
@@monroerobbins7551 Oh that's a weird detail for them to leave out. Yeah if she was a literal child then the weird cringy love letters make a lot more sense. I also don't think she was the killer if she was 11...
Raven G, Eh, killer children are a concept that has existed for quite some time.
I feel like "hindu prince" is code for 1920s drugs
Despite the mother having the most motive, I just don't think she's the killer. There's just too much that doesn't make sense. 1. The fact that a man was seen (possibly acting suspicious) but nobody saw a woman 2. what the studio execs chose to take and not take. The stuff they took/didnt take doesnt make a whole lot of sense if the mom was the killer.
I honestly think the idea that Taylor was gay makes the most sense. The execs would have taken anything that alluded to a man being there, and placed the nightgown to insinuate a woman was there. Somebody could have been sent to kill him, or just decided they had had enough. This would also explain why Sands was being so coy and mocking (though i dont think hes the killer). I think the killer is someone not even listed here
I'm inclined to agree. It's certainly possible that the reason the letters were never released were because he could have potentially written confidential details about his sexuality to her, which would explain why she was also so adamant about them not being a couple and people getting the "wrong idea". I'm almost positive that nightgown was planted, especially because that quote about the nightgown "probably belonging to a woman" seems off, considering that would typically be the obvious conclusion, and was probably to divert attention from his sexuality. Also, the fact that he abandoned a family fits REALLY well here. It would make sense that a gay man wouldn't want to be married to a woman. Overall, there are a lot of patterns that certainly suggest this.
Quality role playing from Mr. Goldsworth
"Police also supposedly find a silky garment, pinkish in colour, that - quote 'resembled a nightgown'." So... you're saying they found a pink silk nightgown?
MsJillVicious lol when men describe women things.
Lily Vuong "Officer we can't write nightgown! It might be a table cloath"
Oh yeah makes sense XD
Nah but true in crimes stuff sometimes is weirdly described
I almost spit out my drink when Shane said "oh blessed baby"
6:13 *hears the word homosexual*
My gayness: You called?
non existent I swear he was killed by a guy he had over
Cringe.
Can we quickly acknowledge that Shane is rocking those glasses
Good gods, I looked it up, and apparently that 78$ he had in his wallet would have been equivalent to over a thousand dollars today. No wonder they ruled out robbery as a motive!
His February skills improved 80%
Someone needs to make a compilation of Shane and Ryan wheezing
@Ella Viaene There is one and it's like 50 ish minutes long
@Ella Viaene th-cam.com/video/FCu-ZDeu0kQ/w-d-xo.html It's actually only forty minutes my bad
Nothing better on a Friday night than a buzzfeed unsolved with a good old classic (wheeze)
Ryan has a soft, yet really raspy voice and It just adds that much more tension to whatever he's saying and I'm so here for it (he's really going all out with the eeriness in this one and I'm loving it haha)
So they’re was a rumor that he had abandoned a family. But there was no investigating more of that? Maybe it was the wife he abandoned or the son, we don’t know how old he was 🤔 They should’ve investigated more on the name they thought was his real name. Saw what past he had.
He had a daughter named Ethel Daisy, who was born in either 1902 or 1903. The last time he saw the daughter was around 1908. His wife, Ethel May Hamilton, filed for divorce in 1912. He also had 4 siblings. His uncle was also an Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament for Mid Cork at one point. He didn't have a son.
no ones gonna comment on “sketchies” instead of “selfies”?!? gold
Most unsolved cases in the LA area are only "unsolved" because the LAPD ensures that they remain that way
yep they are sketchy i'll say
They may not do it on purpose but they definitely don’t care enough about cases, considering theres so much crime/problems in LA
You know these unsolved episodes just makes me wanna avoid saying the word kill, I often threaten people with death jokingly and now I'm just scared I'm gonna be convicted of murder.
5:12 'A silky pink night gown.........Detective Sergeant believes it belonged to a woman'
Woooowwwwwww I never would have guessed...
Kinji are you assuming its gender?
new theory: william desmond taylor was a drag queen, it was his silky pink night gown
"A silky piece or material that, quote, 'resembled a nightgown'"... like, does it have straps? Can you wear it? It's either a nightgown or it isn't?
I'm just imagining the headlines:
"PINK SILK FABRIC SPECULATED TO BE NIGHTGOWN"
*a week later* "DETECTIVES RELEASE STATEMENT ON PINK NIGHTGOWN-LIKE THING: SUSPECTED TO HAVE BELONGED TO A WOMAN"
Too small to be his own?
Yam Jam I thought the same exact thing
The only thing that comforts me when watching this at night is the *Wheezing*
blessed baby is my new drag name thanks buzzfeed unsolved
WELCOME TO THE STAGE BLESSED BABY
lil corn shuck i subbed ta u whn i read 😂💟
lil corn shuck uuuu
lil corn shuck lol
Blessed baby in the streets...
“Silky garment that resembled a nightgown” ok it’s either a nightgown or not XD
It's not a nightgown, but it resembled one XD
I think they were trying to find a euphemism for "lingerie", ended up just being weird lol, especially since they didn't bother with a euphemism the next time it was mentioned