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Adam Walsh murder solved
Topic Started: Dec 16 2008, 02:50 PM (215 Views)
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Adam Walsh murder to be declared solved today; Ottis Toole expected to be named as killer
Posted: December 16, 2008, 2:14 PM by Chris Boutet
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UPDATE 3 p.m. ET: Here is a statement from Hollywood, Fla. Police Chief Chadwick E. Wagner on solving the murder, released via the America's Most Wanted website.


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Hollywood police are set to announce today that they are closing the book on the horrific murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh, whose disappearance and brutal decapitation in 1981 gave rise to a national television crusade in the form of "America's Most Wanted," hosted by his father, John Walsh.

According to the Florida Sun-Sentinel, police are expected to identify infamous American serial killer Ottis Toole as the murderer of Walsh, who was snatched from a Sears store at the Hollywood Mall on July 27, 1981. The child's severed head was found two weeks later in Vero Beach, Calif. His body was never found.


Police have scheduled a news conference for 2:30 PT, with John Walsh and the crew of crime-fighting television show "America's Most Wanted" in attendance.

A combination of sloppy police work by several agencies and bad luck had kept the Adam Walsh case open for nearly three decades, during which a half-dozen names had been linked to the murder, including that of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. But Ottis Toole had always remained a prime suspect, mainly due to the fact that he twiced confessed to killing Walsh while on Florida's Death Row for an unrelated murder.

A self-described transvestite and sometime accomplice of convicted Texas serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, Toole admitted to over 100 counts of murder, rape and cannibalism, although many of those claimed proved false. Toole was convicted of three counts of murder in 1984 and sentenced to death, though the sentence was commuted to life in prison on appeal. he confessed to four more murder charges — including the murder of Walsh — before dying of liver failure in prison in 1996.

In response to the news, John Walsh and his wife Revé have issued this statement on the America's Most Wanted website:

It has been more than 27 years since our son Adam was abducted from a Hollywood, Fla. mall, then murdered. The situation that we have endured since then is beyond a parent's worst nightmare.

Despite an ongoing, 27-year investigation, our son's murder case has remained open -- until now.

Although Adam's killer never served one day in prison for destroying our son's life and almost ruining ours, nor will he ever because he died in prison serving time for an unrelated murder, we are satisfied that the main suspect in Adam's murder –- Ottis Toole -- has now been positively identified and that this chapter in our lives is now closed.

There are two agencies we would like to thank for never giving up: the Broward County State Attorney's office; in particular, assistant State Attorney Chuck Morton, and the Hollywood Police Department; and specifically, the courage of Chief Chad Wagner for moving this case to its conclusion.

We want to express our deepest gratitude to two men who worked with us all these years pro bono to get justice for Adam and give us some answers: Kelly Hancock, former Broward County State Attorney Prosecutor and now prominent private attorney with the law firm of Krupnick, Campbell, Malone, Buser, Slama, Hancock, Liberman and McKelly.

From the beginning, Kelly Hancock worked within the Criminal Justice System to make sure that Adam’s case did not fall through the cracks and to ensure that there was a resolution for Adam and our family.

Secondly, former Miami Beach Police Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, who worked this case tirelessly for 27 years and developed so much of the crucial evidence to close this case.

From all of the evidence presented to us, we agree with the conclusion shared by the key investigators that it is clear and irrefutable that Ottis Toole was the abductor and killer of our son, Adam.

We can now move forward knowing positively who killed our beautiful little boy. We, along with our children, Meghan, Callahan and Hayden, pray for the thousands of parents of murdered and still-missing children. We continue to fight for their safety, and to make sure that no child -- especially Adam -- died in vain.




Glad this family will finally get some peace
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