BOOK ONE: FINDING THE KILLER WAS THE MAN IN THE MALL THE MOST
NOTORIOUS MURDERER IN HISTORY? A TRUE STORY ALSO READ BOOK TWO,
FINDING THE VICTIM: THE BODY IDENTIFIED AS ADAM WALSH IS NOT HIM.
IS ADAM STILL ALIVE? THERE IS ALSO A SPECIAL SINGLE EDITION, A
CONDENSED VERSION OF BOOKS ONE AND TWO, FOR BRIEFER READING: FIRST
THE POLICE FOUND THE BODY. THEN THE KILLER. NEITHER WAS RIGHT. In
summer 1981 6-year-old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh, vanished from
a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida. After two frantic weeks in
which the entire community searched for him, a child's severed head
declared to be Adam's was found 125 miles north in a drainage area.
No other body parts were ever found. In 1991, Milwaukee police
arrested Jeffrey Dahmer and found 11 severed heads in his
apartment. He admitted then that in the summer of 1981 he'd lived
in Miami 15 minutes from the Hollywood Mall. Dahmer denied killing
Adam because, he said, he didn't have his own vehicle. But
immediately after Dahmer's arrest two separate insistent witnesses
went to Hollywood police and identified Dahmer as the man they saw
at the mall on the day Adam disappeared. In 1981 they'd both told
police what they'd seen but police had kept no record of their
tips. One said Dahmer had approached him inside the mall in a
drunken, threatening way. He'd followed him at a distance into the
toy department of Sears, where Mrs. Walsh had said she'd left Adam.
The other witness said he was outside and saw Dahmer grab and
violently throw a protesting child into a blue van that screeched
away. That matched what a 1981 witness had said about a blue van,
and for the first month of the case, police had stopped every blue
van they saw. Yet without seriously checking, Hollywood police
simply believed the word of a manipulative serial killer when he
said he didn't kill Adam Walsh. Investigative author and journalist
Arthur Jay Harris did what Hollywood police wouldn't do: he traced
Dahmer's movements in Miami and built a case against him. He
learned that at the sub and pizza shop where he worked there was a
blue van for deliveries that employees often took for their own
use. Also, Dahmer often showed up for work in the morning drunk and
was sent home. As well he discovered a police report dated 20 days
before Adam's abduction in which Dahmer reported finding a dead
body of a homeless man in the alley behind his shop. Dahmer had
never mentioned this. When ABC Primetime and Harris entered a meter
room in the alley behind the shop, where Dahmer said the homeless
man had slept, they found an old lumberman's axe and a sledgehammer
next to a huge amount of what a retired crime scene investigator
identified as blood spatter. The homeless man had not bled. Was
this evidence of other extreme violence by Dahmer? Even after an
ABC producer informed Hollywood Police, they never bothered to
enter that room, much less test the blood evidence. In 2008
Hollywood police announced the case was finally solved-incredibly,
they said the killer was Ottis Toole, a drifter who in 1983 said
he'd killed Adam but soon after had been dismissed as a suspect.
Police presented no new evidence. Toole had not been able to tell
police any specific true thing about the case, and much of his
initial information was painfully wrong. He'd blamed Henry Lee
Lucas for killing Adam, but Lucas was in jail that day. He said
Adam's murder happened around January and he was wearing mittens It
was July in sweltering South Florida. No DNA evidence was ever
matched to him. Further, Toole had also confessed to hundreds of
other murders for which he was never charged. But in closing the
case police made public its entire case file. In it Harris found
four more insistent witnesses who had also seen Adam, Dahmer, and a
blue van in the same precise spot at Hollywood Mall that day in
1981. Inexplicably, Hollywood police had turned them all away.
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