It was not until 1986 that an inquest recorded a verdict of unlawful killing. The hope now is that more advanced DNA techniques will bring something out of the file materials and people involved all those years ago. The case remains as the longest unsolved murder in the recent Humberside Police annals. Local people recall the case clearly, and talk still periodically turns to the death of that young man whose smiling face and long hair remain the abiding image of him, as in the Evening Telegraph when the story is retold. There may be some hope: after all, the murder of Susan Long in Norfolk in 1970 is being re-examined as detectives work on DNA found in garments, and the blood-group of the killer is a rare one. The original work of taking 3,700 statements may not have been in vain. Something of the same kind of procedure may not be impossible in the case of Walter Taylor. The local community would dearly love this case to be resolved. A A Clarke, writing on the case in his book, Killers at Large (1994) gives an analysis of the people seen at the sites near to the scene of death, and there are so many individuals listed that one would be sanguine about locating a person around the town today who has strong memories of some of the movements of people around Ashby on that fateful night for poor Walter.