[2] After moving to California as a young man, he began working in Hollywood as a lighting technician before becoming a cinematographer.
[3] The body was discovered in a car parked in front of a post office on Wilcox Boulevard eight to 15 hours later by James Fisher, who worked in advertising at The Hollywood Citizen-News.
[4] When police investigated the crime scene, they found that Gray had been shot in the chest from a distance of a foot or more[5] and was clutching a letter that was addressed to "daddy dear."
[6][5] A San Francisco typewriter repairman, John "Jack" Henry Moran, was questioned after bragging about the murder in a Bay Area cafe, but he was eventually released from police custody.
[7] Another suspect was a 35-year-old ex-convict named Joseph L. Chester, who committed suicide in Baldwin Park, California, after a high-speed car chase through nearby Ventura County in July 1938.