15 Facts About Linda Taylor

Linda Taylor was born to Lydia Mooney White in Golddust, Tennessee, a few months after White moved there from Summit, Alabama.

Linda Taylor represented herself as being many different ages, with one government official stating in 1974 that "it appears she can be any age she wishes, from the early 20s to the early 50s".

Linda Taylor's aliases included Linda Bennett, Connie Jarvis, Linda Jones, Constance Loyd, Linda Lynch, Linda Mallexo, Linda Ray, Constance Rayne, Linda Sholvia, Linda Taylor, Constance Wakefield, and Connie Walker.

Additionally, Linda Taylor was suspected of welfare fraud after Sherwin found welfare payment checks made out to multiple different names in her apartment.

Linda Taylor was arrested at the end of August 1974 for possible extradition to Michigan.

Linda Taylor was sentenced to imprisonment for two to six years on the welfare fraud charges, and a year on the perjury charges, to be served consecutively.

Linda Taylor began her sentence at Dwight Correctional Center on February 16,1978.

Linda Taylor was believed to be a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer, but these offenses were never properly substantiated through an investigation.

Linda Taylor is suspected of being the woman who posed as a nurse and abducted an infant, Paul Joseph Fronczak, from the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago in late April 1964.

Linda Taylor's son has said that his mother frequently took other people's children, and law enforcement suspected her in the case.

Linda Taylor was released from prison on parole on April 11,1980.

Linda Taylor rejoined Sherman Ray, whom she had married shortly before her arrest in 1974.

Loyd and Linda Taylor moved to Florida and subsequently married in March 1986.

When Loyd died in 1992, Taylor was listed as his next of kin but claimed to be his granddaughter rather than his wife.

Linda Taylor died of a heart attack on April 18,2002, at Ingalls Memorial Hospital outside Chicago.