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Don't know if it's been posted, but I just saw the headline on MSN... thought I'd share.
Link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28257294/?GT1=43001
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Authorities in South Florida announced Tuesday that they've finally solved the 1981 killing of Adam Walsh, whose father later gained fameas the host of "America's Most Wanted."
Hollywood police held a news conference to close the case of the abduction and homicide of 6-year-old Adam.They identified the boy's killer as Ottis Toole, a drifter who confessed to the murder, then recanted before dying in prison in 1996. Toole's niecetold the boy's father, John Walsh, her uncle gave a deathbed confession.
Adam's parents, John and Reve Walsh, long ago derided the investigation as botched. Both attended a newsconference and gave a tearful account of what's it's been like not knowing for decades who killed their son.
The boy went missing from a Hollywood mall on July 27, 1981. Fishermen discovered his severed head in a canal 120 miles away two weekslater. The rest of his body was never found.
John Walsh said his son's case shows why parents should never give up hope. He said police recentlyreviewed evidence in the case to come to the conclusion that Toole was the killer.
Walsh said he never had any doubt that Toole was the murderer, even though it took decades to confirm. At thetime of the killing, some key evidence had been lost and DNA testing had not yet been developed.
"For us it ends here," Walsh said.
Over the years, Toole had claimed hundreds of murders, but police determined most of the confessions werelies.
Link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28257294/?GT1=43001
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Authorities in South Florida announced Tuesday that they've finally solved the 1981 killing of Adam Walsh, whose father later gained fameas the host of "America's Most Wanted."
Hollywood police held a news conference to close the case of the abduction and homicide of 6-year-old Adam.They identified the boy's killer as Ottis Toole, a drifter who confessed to the murder, then recanted before dying in prison in 1996. Toole's niecetold the boy's father, John Walsh, her uncle gave a deathbed confession.
Adam's parents, John and Reve Walsh, long ago derided the investigation as botched. Both attended a newsconference and gave a tearful account of what's it's been like not knowing for decades who killed their son.
The boy went missing from a Hollywood mall on July 27, 1981. Fishermen discovered his severed head in a canal 120 miles away two weekslater. The rest of his body was never found.
John Walsh said his son's case shows why parents should never give up hope. He said police recentlyreviewed evidence in the case to come to the conclusion that Toole was the killer.
Walsh said he never had any doubt that Toole was the murderer, even though it took decades to confirm. At thetime of the killing, some key evidence had been lost and DNA testing had not yet been developed.
"For us it ends here," Walsh said.
Over the years, Toole had claimed hundreds of murders, but police determined most of the confessions werelies.
