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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.
Was there any significance to the items found on William Desmond Taylor?
With the evidence of the money and valuables on William Desmond Taylor's body, robbery seemingly was not the motive for the killing.

Question: What was the motive?
Self-contained rewrite: What was the motive behind William Desmond Taylor's murder?