luciferlaughs: In 1981, John Walsh was just a hotel marketing executive, but that all changed when h
luciferlaughs: In 1981, John Walsh was just a hotel marketing executive, but that all changed when his wife, Revé, took her 6-year-old son Adam Walsh shopping with her in a Hollywood, Florida, Sears department store on July 27, 1981. She left Adam in a toy’s section of the store to fool around with the video game systems on display along with some other boys as she checked out some lamps a few aisles away. She returned only a few minutes later to find that her son, along with the other boys, were gone. The security guard informed her that a scuffle had broken out over whose turn it was at the kiosk, and the guard demanded that they leave. Two weeks later, Adam’s severed head was found in a canal by two fishermen. The coroner ruled that the cause of his death was asphyxiation. After serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s arrest, he was immediately suspected as Adam’s murderer, as he was working only several minutes from where the boy vanished, but there was no concrete evidence linking him to the crime. Then, Ottis Toole, another serial killer, was named as the suspect. Ottis, who was already in prison in 1983, admitted to decapitating Adam with a machete (but would later recant his confession) and his accomplice, Henry Lee Lucas, told police that Ottis had shown him Adam’s body. Many witnesses claim to have seen Ottis talking to Adam on the day he was taken as well, although there was still no evidence to support this. The kidnapping and murder of Adam prompted John Walsh to become an advocate of victim’s rights and host the show America’s Most Wanted. In 2008, after 27 years, police closed Adam Walsh’s case, claiming they had sufficient evidence to pin Ottis Toole as the murderer. -- source link