Movie icon Elizabeth Taylor took a horrible dark secret to her grave – her adopted daughter was married to a violent drunk who allegedly planned to pour gasoline around their family home and set it ablaze with both Liz’s daughter and the couple’s young son inside, The National ENQUIRER has exclusively learned.
The plot by Liz’s nutso son-in-law from hell, Thomas McKeown, was stopped by an alert neighbor, who called cops after seeing him with the gas can. The loose cannon was approaching the New Jersey home where he lived with Liz’s daughter Maria Burton and their then three-year-old son, Richard.
“He had nails in his mouth and he was going to nail the windows shut and set the house on fire with us in it,” said Mary Pitman, a next-door neighbor and Richard’s babysitter, who was inside the house at the time.