Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 November 1969

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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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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 9th of November 1969 56 years ago He Wrote Seven Pages
Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes a 7-page letter to the San Francisco Chronicle stating that two policemen stopped and actually spoke with him three minutes after he shot Paul Stine in San Francisco, California, United States. Excerpts from the letter were published in the Chronicle on 12 November including the Zodiac's claim.