Conversation so far:
Can you tell me something about the investigation?
William Desmond Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals, such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalist and often fabricated newspaper reports.
What else was on William Desmond Taylor's persons?
In William Desmond Taylor's pockets, investigators found a wallet holding $78 in cash, a silver cigarette case, a Waltham pocket watch, a pen knife, and a photograph of Mabel Normand.

Question: Was there any significance to the items?
Self-contained rewrite: Was there any significance to the items found on William Desmond Taylor?