Suspects and Witnesses
More than a dozen individuals were eventually named as suspects by both the press and the police. Newspaper reports at the time were both overwhelmingly sensationalised and speculative, even fabricated, and the murder was used as the basis for much subsequent "true crime" fiction. Many inaccuracies were carried forward by later writers who used articles from the popular press as their sources. Overall, most accounts have consistently focused on seven people as suspects and witnesses.
Read more about this topic: William Desmond Taylor, Investigation
Famous quotes containing the words suspects and/or witnesses:
“A brother noble,
Whose nature is so far from doing harms
That he suspects none.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)