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Florida police say Adam Walsh murder solved

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081216/tv_nm/us_walsh_1

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MIAMI (Reuters) – Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of television crime show host John Walsh, was kidnapped and killed 27 years ago by a drifter who later died in jail, police in Florida said on Tuesday in closing the books on one of America's best-known unsolved crimes.

The gap-toothed boy, famously pictured holding a baseball bat and wearing a red cap, went missing from the toy department of a mall in Hollywood, Florida, in July 1981. His head was found in a canal two weeks later but his body was never found.

Hollywood police announced on Tuesday that Ottis Toole, a longtime suspect in the Walsh killing, was in fact the murderer. Toole died in prison in 1996.

"For 27 years we've been asking, 'Who could take a 6-year-old boy and murder him and decapitate him? Who?'" John Walsh said at a news conference. "We needed to know. We needed to know. And today we know."
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6 comments // Florida police say Adam Walsh murder solved

  • Katanajon
  • Ayahuasca2012
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      Ayahuasca2012  

    • It may sound kind of cruel... but if the they had discovered who did it for sure years ago John Walsh may not have devoted himself to the causes he did and we could still have thousands of criminals out on the streets. Just a thought...

      Glad it's finally solved though.

    • 3 years ago
  • arcticspirit
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      arcticspirit  

    • The Walsh family took their grief and turned it into something that has helped people nation wide.

      No one should have to find their child in the way that they found theirs. That is more than heartbreaking. That's enough to push the normal person over the edge.

      I hope the person that did this pays dearly for the brutality done to this innocent life.

    • 3 years ago
  • Katanajon
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      Katanajon  

    • Hi Jim, apparently the freak died 10 years ago, and confessed to his niece on his death bed. God knows why she didn't come forward sooner. Walsh is always on TV talking about it. She should be charged with withholding evidence, or torture. At least they get closure..

    • 3 years ago
  • jahbini
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      jahbini  

    • 1996?

      That is 12 years ago. Was there some new evidence to explain the delay? It sounds pretty strange. In a Florida-Texas sort of way.

      And If the couple do find closure, then that is a good thing.

    • 3 years ago
  • Katanajon
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