![]() Most succumbed to tear-downs, but one in a less desirable part of town survived – the home of hapless actress, Mary Miles Minter. in the 1980s on a regular basis to do celebrity interviews for women’s magazines and I’d tour the town to find the “dream palaces” of the silent stars. ![]() I’ve always been fascinated by the silent film era. There are too many to name here, but you can read more in this 2016 Hollywood Reporter article: What Really Happened the Night Hollywood Power Publicist Ronni Chasen Was Killed? This being Hollywood, conspiracy theories abound. The police quickly called it a car jacking gone wrong and blamed an ex-con named Harold Smith, who conveniently killed himself before he could be arrested. Chasen was a well-known “power publicist” who was killed in 2010 when leaving a party for a movie premiere. ![]() I just turned Day 2 into my editor and I used the Ronnie Chasen murder for inspiration. ![]() Hollywood Homicide is loosely based on the Bling Ring. The mysteries in the Detective by Day series are actually inspired by Hollywood crimes. The Chicks are preparing for a big Hollywood premiere next week! That would be the debut of our very own Kellye Garrett’s mystery Hollywood Homicide. So we thought it would be fun to talk about some famous Tinsel Town murders, many of them still unsolved. ![]()
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