- January 1923 – No evidence that drug peddlers were involved, said District Attorney Thomas Woolwine
- August 1923 – If Taylor had lived, he would have married me, said Mary Miles Minter
- September 1923 – Mary Miles Minter visited Taylor late at night at his home a few weeks before he was killed
- September 1923 – My mother (Charlotte Shelby) loved Taylor too, and kept us apart, said Mary Miles Minter
- November 1926 – Mary Miles Minter sets sail for Italy and plans to leave America “forever”
- December 1929 – Taylor “killed by a film actress”, the investigation blocked
- January 1930 – Taylor was involved in a “bitter quarrel” with a “movie celebrity” moments before he was killed, said Henry Peavey
- Otis Hefner, a friend of Edward Sands, said that he and Sands supplied drugs to Taylor, who then distributed them amongst members of the film colony. Hefner reckoned that he saw a leading movie actress, a drug addict, leaving Taylor’s house in the early hours, and that Sands reported that Taylor was dead
- February 1930 – the press reported the death of Mabel Normand
- May 1937 – Before a Grand Jury, Margaret Shelby suggested that her mother, Charlotte, murdered Taylor
- June 1937 – the following was published in relation to Charlotte Shelby
Hannah Howe 