11. Margaret Gibson
On February 2nd 1922, Hollywood director and former actor William Desmond Taylor was found dead in his LA home, having been fatally shot. Though the case officially remains unsolved to this day, a surprising deathbed confession that took place 40 years later could just be the missing puzzle piece.
Margaret Gibson was a 27-year-old actress working in Los Angeles at the time of the murder. She had worked with William previously, and was a drug addict who was later charged with blackmail and extortion. Though her name never came up in the murder investigation, she fled the US soon after and lived in Singapore for many years. On the 21st of October, 1964, now living back in the Hollywood Hills (using the name Pat Lewis), Margaret told a neighbor that she had murdered the director after suffering from a heart attack. The confused neighbor had no idea who she was referring to, and as a result it was not until many years later that the story came to light.
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