The Hall-Mills murders have been much written about in both fact and fiction. Damon Runyon was one of the reporters of the trial, as was famed mystery novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart, H. L. Mencken, and Billy Sunday. Willie Stevens was later the subject of an essay by James Thurber. The trial inspired the novel "The Crime" by Stephen Longstreet as well as Frances Noyes Hart's novel "The Bellamy Trial", a pioneering work that helped establish the genre of the courtroom mystery and was turned into a film in 1929. Even before the trial, the silent film "The Goose Woman" (1925), starring Louise Dresser and Jack Pickford, capitalized on Jane Gibson's story and statements; the film was remade as "The Past of Mary Holmes" in 1933.