Now, people have been studying this case for two centuries, so i won't claim to be an expert. But like i said earlier, this is a complex story that i've boiled down to dark reduction and cut straight to the heart of it. And one of the elements you might want to read more about are the two men that williams was known to hang out with, one of whom had a grudge with timothy marr, and the other who was a very large man. Because of that, some people believe these two men were the true killers, and john williams was their final loose end. It's easy to imagine them staging the suicide to cut that final tie between selves and the murders. And what happened next only confirms that the investigators took the bait. John williams apparent death by suicide was interpreted by the court as an admission of guilt. No, he had never been formally charged with the crime, but they saw this as an easy answer to a frustrating situation. So they declared him guilty, stating that he had worked alone. And with that, their nightmare and william's life were both over. Well almost. Because in the early nineteenth century, the folks in england still followed an ancient practice when it came to those who took their own lives. You see, they believe that people who did that had committed a crime against themselves and god, and therefore deserved a very public humiliation and a troublesome burial. There's a lot of folklore out there about cross roads, often centering on things like summoning the devil for some sort of a deal, or that cross roads were the location where one might see feiries or trolls or some other supernatural creature. But running beneath all of that was an older undercurrent, the notion that cross roads by their very nature, confused spirits. It was rooted in this idea that spirits could easily get lost due to all the options that were available at cross roads. Imagine ding at an intersection of two or three roads, but having no signs to tell you where to go. Apparently, that disorienting situation was even worse for the spirits of the dead, and they risked never reaching the after life.