Featured Interview With John W. Taylor
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in a small town in central Illinois. I lived in the Washington, DC area until about two years ago when I moved to Raleigh, North Carolina.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started to enjoy reading around the age of 12, though it only applied to books I wanted to read, not necessarily books assigned in school. I didn’t start writing on a regular basis until about five years ago. I started writing out of necessity, when I founded a financial research company. However, I shifted into true crime writing about four years ago.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like to read anything by Malcolm Gladwell or Dan Brown. I think both of them write in a very engaging manner. I enjoy reading true crime and business ethics.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I wrote a non-fiction book about the tragic murder of Nancy Cooper. Nancy was a beautiful housewife and mother, who was strangled to death in her upscale neighborhood in Cary, North Carolina in 2008. Her husband, Brad Cooper, was immediately suspected in what appeared to be a rush to judgment by local law enforcement in order to appease a nervous community. Brad was later arrested and then convicted of Nancy’s murder.
For many, the question remains, did they get the right person? Did the evidence convict Brad of murder or did he merely fit the narrative that the husband did it, which provided a quick solution to an unsolved murder? The murder conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeals, which called into question many of the assumptions regarding what happened to Nancy. Isolated Incident unravels many of the overlooked and ignored details of this very troubling case.
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