INCLUDES PHOTOS AND DOCUMENT EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC RECORDS THE BODY
IDENTIFIED AS ADAM WALSH IS NOT HIM. IS ADAM STILL ALIVE? A TRUE
STORY ALSO READ BOOK ONE, FINDING THE KILLER: WAS THE MAN IN THE
MALL THE MOST NOTORIOUS MURDERER IN HISTORY? THERE IS ALSO A
SPECIAL SINGLE EDITION, A CONDENSATION OF BOOKS ONE AND TWO, FOR
BRIEFER READING: FIRST THE POLICE FOUND THE BODY. THEN THE KILLER.
NEITHER WAS RIGHT. BOOK ONE shows that in 1981, in Florida, serial
killer Jeffrey Dahmer kidnapped 6-year-old Adam Walsh and that
police named the wrong suspect in Adam's presumed murder. BOOK TWO
begins with a Facebook friend request after I'd published Book One:
I thought you might be interested to know that J. Dahmer did kidnap
me... I have to give you credence outright for laying most of the
blame on the man behind my own abduction. Sincerely, Adam J. Walsh
Wasn't Adam Walsh dead, wasn't that what this story was all about?
Two weeks after Adam had been last seen at the Hollywood Mall, a
severed head had been found in a canal 125 miles north, and a
medical examiner there said it was Adam. Nothing else of him was
ever found. He'd had a funeral service, the community and his
parents cried their eyes out, and the Walshes dedicated themselves
to helping find other missing children. And at a 2008 press
conference, they'd endorsed the Hollywood Police chief's decision
to finally close the case by declaring that Ottis Toole, not
Dahmer, killed Adam. For a week, I listened to the man who said he
was Adam Walsh. So much of everything else in the story had turned
out contrary to what the police and the Walshes had insisted on.
How could I just dismiss this? The man said Dahmer had kept him for
possibly a month. He let him hear the news about the discovery of
Adam, dead. After that, Dahmer tortured him horribly and left him
near-dead himself. Unconscious, he'd been rescued but knew no
details. Another family took him in and raised him, with their
surname. The man was clearly sincere, but was he self-deluded?
Could I possibly verify anything he had said? It seemed impossible.
Dismissing him would have been the easiest thing. Rather than prove
that he was Adam Walsh, I first tried to prove that he wasn't. The
upstate M.E.'s report was in public record. He'd made an ID by
comparing the teeth in the head to Adam's dental records. Also, a
Walsh family friend had made an ID. But John Walsh wrote that the
friend didn't immediately recognize him, he said it was Adam only
after seeing that he was missing a top front tooth. When police
closed the case, all the Walsh case files became public record. The
child's autopsy was done in Ft. Lauderdale and I got to see the
file. It was stunning: it had no report of the autopsy, no forensic
dental report, and no copy of Adam's dental records. Nor were they
in any other official file. The M.E. who did the autopsy responded
to me only in writing that he never wrote a report. There were some
photos of the child's teeth, though. They showed, as the upstate
M.E. wrote, that of the child's top two front teeth, the left was
in most of the way, and the right had just erupted. But Adam's
famous Missing photo clearly showed that he had neither of his top
front teeth. That picture, I found, had been taken about a month
before he disappeared. In the police file was the best last seen
alive description of Adam. Of his top front teeth, it said that his
left had just emerged, and his right was missing. In the found
head, the top front tooth that's mostly in is the left, and it's
the right that just erupted. Could Adam's teeth have grown in that
much in the 14 days after he disappeared? Unlikely. Plus, the M.E.
who did the autopsy estimated that the child (Adam, he said) had
been dead possibly all of that time. Now I had to keep going, could
I determine if this man indeed was Adam Walsh? There were many more
su
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh, 2 |
Release date: |
June 2013 |
First published: |
June 2013 |
Authors: |
Arthur Jay Harris
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
442 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4841-6762-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
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LSN: |
1-4841-6762-7 |
Barcode: |
9781484167625 |
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