- LETS FIND THEM THE KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF ADAM JOHN WALSH SERIAL
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Because the remains were only a severed head, there were no fingerprints, and forensic DNA was still years away. A family friend had been present for the ID, and Walsh wrote that his first impression had been that it wasn't Adam. The Walsh parents weren't present for it John Walsh wrote years later that he'd never viewed even photographs of the remains. He said he'd killed his first victim in 1978.Įven worse, it turned out that the identification of the child as Adam had been slapdash and suspect.
LETS FIND THEM THE KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF ADAM JOHN WALSH SERIAL
1981 was 10 years before Milwaukee police found severed heads in Dahmer's refrigerator and arrested him as a serial killer. Yes, bad luck, Jeffrey Dahmer found a dead body. Dahmer's boss told the author that the prompt for the report was that Dahmer had told him he'd just found the body of a homeless man behind the store. A microfilmed Miami police report the author found and had previously shown to the Walsh detectives proved that Dahmer was then living just a few miles from the Sears.
Most had seen Adam all had seen a much more likely suspect - Jeffrey Dahmer. What the new chief didn't mention was that by then he had six separate police witnesses who'd been at the shopping mall on that day in 1981, and had since spoken up. In 2008, when a new Hollywood Police chief closed the case, he admitted they had no new evidence. But the police then had deeply investigated his story and couldn't verify anything he'd said, not even that he'd been within 400 miles of the area. In 1983, 25 years earlier, that suspect had volunteered a confession that he'd killed Adam Walsh. But virtually everything else that you think you know about this famous case is wrong. Because of that there could never be a trial.Īll of that is true. In 2008, 27 years later, police announced at a live televised press conference that they'd finally solved the case, blaming the kidnapping and murder on a by-then dead man. His parents, Reve and John Walsh, deeply grieved and dedicated their lives going forward to helping find other parents' children who had gone missing. Two weeks later and 125 miles away, a child's severed head was found and identified as Adam. Six-year-old Adam Walsh disappeared from the toy department of a Sears in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981.
LETS FIND THEM THE KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF ADAM JOHN WALSH SERIES
THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF ADAM WALSH is a two-book series