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Adam Walsh case may finally be solved
tCPalm News ^ | 12-16-08 | Sun-Sentinel

Posted on 12/16/2008 8:53:31 AM PST by prismsinc

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A little boy's murder that shocked parents everywhere, launched a national television crusade and confounded detectives for more than two decades may finally be solved.

Hollywood police today are expected to identify Ottis Toole as the killer of Adam Walsh, the 6-year old snatched from a Sears store at the Hollywood Mall on July 27, 1981.

Adam's severed head turned up two weeks later in Vero Beach and his body has never been found.

(Excerpt) Read more at tcpalm.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: adamwalsh; finally; florida; helixmakemineadouble; hollywood; johnwalsh; ottistoole; realmonsteralert
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To: netmilsmom
Is the boy’s mother dead?

John and Reve Walsh remained married, despite the horrible strain a child's murder often takens on a marriage. They had three more children after Adam's death. Reve started the movement that resulted in vastly better law enforcement action nationwide in cases of missing children. Reve's work also led to the national missing and exploited children database.

John, of course, started and hosted 'America's Most Wanted'. Together, John and Reve have helped save countless lives and put thousands of scumbags behind bars. They were absolutely determined that Adam's death should not be in vain. Here's a photo of them taken at today's announcement that Toole has been officially named as Adam's killer.

BTW, Toole was serving five life sentences for other murders when he died in 1996 of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 49. When he died, no one claimed his body, and he was buried in the prison graveyard.

81 posted on 12/16/2008 5:52:01 PM PST by Wolfstar ("My 80% friend is not my enemy." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Wolfstar

Thank you!

Prayers for the whole Walsh family.


82 posted on 12/16/2008 5:55:21 PM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Texan Tory
Most gay men never kill anyone, let alone a young boy

And you base this on what?

Wayne Gacy, Leopold & Loeb ....

83 posted on 12/16/2008 6:02:03 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: pgkdan

He’s dead - I’m sure he’s getting his “reward”. Sadly, even burning in hell is too good for this scum.


84 posted on 12/16/2008 6:04:53 PM PST by GOPJ (Gun Control-:- like trying to control stray dogs by neutering veterinarians.- G. Jonas)
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To: Luke21
Same here....I remember it well...Vero Beach was only 30 minutes away...

..overprotective just about describes it!

85 posted on 12/16/2008 6:04:53 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

There’s an adorable & precocious 2 yr old in our church and his grandmother walks him around with his ‘monkey on my back’ leash and he doesn’t mind and it’s really cute.


86 posted on 12/16/2008 6:08:11 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: netmilsmom
Thank you!

When John Walsh was speaking at today's press briefing, the grief in his eyes was as fresh as it was 27 years ago. These day's it's fashionable to talk about "closure" and "healing" in cases like these, but there's no such thing. There is simply a choice of continuing to live or not. If you continue to live, you put one foot in front of the other and find a way to go on. You learn to endure, but grief like that never truly heals.

87 posted on 12/16/2008 6:17:04 PM PST by Wolfstar ("My 80% friend is not my enemy." Ronald Reagan)
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To: prismsinc

How many parents can look at that picture of Adam Walsh and not remember the sweet smell of their own child warm from playing, and hair damp with sweat, running to give them a hug?

I cried trying to tell my husband the news about this. 27 years, but finally the Walsh family can know for certain who killed Adam.

Prayers for John Walsh and his family, and bless him for dedicating his life toward improving the means of protecting children and bringing perps to justice.

88 posted on 12/16/2008 6:30:11 PM PST by LucyJo
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To: Guenevere

Ted Bundy was heterosexual and he killed women, that doesn’t mean that most hetero men are killers.


89 posted on 12/16/2008 8:26:19 PM PST by chae (I am karmic retribution)
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To: prismsinc

bump


90 posted on 12/16/2008 8:27:57 PM PST by VOA
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To: Mariebl

With all due respect, you have very little information to go on and made a snap judgment about me and my family which you got wrong. For example, there were no other customers waiting, and she would not have had to retrieve my child for me or yell at her, but merely say something or step slightly out of her register station and block the kid.

And, with all due respect, if you think it’s not the job of EVERY member of society to protect children, you have a pretty loose grip on reality.


91 posted on 12/16/2008 9:25:57 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: Mariebl

Why did you pick up the hitcher if it was only his parents’ job to make sure he was safe?


92 posted on 12/16/2008 9:27:43 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: Guenevere

I’m no fan of homosexuality, but are you really going to paint even one percent of the population as a bunch of child murderers based on those three guys?

Really?


93 posted on 12/16/2008 9:30:13 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: Guenevere; All

According to the FBI’s Ressler, Gacy’s victims were young men from 15 to 20. Gacy would cruise gay areas and invite them home. Early on he would get consent for homosexual acts by offering his first wife for sex. Later his second wife and two children moved out after years of complaining of the smell of “dead rats”. His killing then escallated to a total of around 34. He was considered friendly and helpful around the neighborhood. He was apparently bisexual, but with a tremendous need to manipulate and control. He was also a sadistic torturer. Comparing him to your run of the mill gay man is absurd.


94 posted on 12/16/2008 9:47:00 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

The criminal mind can be heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or even asexual, not interested in sex at all. We are all sinners but some people go off the deep end and become obsessed with the evil within themselves. Committing the crimes is like a drug to them and they can’t stop. That’s why rehabilitation rarely works with the criminal mind. The only thing that can truly save them is God’s salvation, like what happened to the “Son of Sam” murderer, who is now a born again Christian even though he was Jewish, and he spends his time in prison trying to convert others to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The apostle Paul was a murderer of Christians, and God saved him.


95 posted on 12/16/2008 11:40:52 PM PST by deannadurbin
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To: prismsinc

John Walsh has done a great deal of good to fight against crime. Doris Tate is another who has done great good for society’s fight against hideous criminals.


96 posted on 12/17/2008 2:09:35 AM PST by death2tyrants
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To: prismsinc; Impy; darkangel82; Clintonfatigued

Good the Walsh family finally has some closure here. Adam was just 3 months younger than myself.


97 posted on 12/17/2008 5:04:26 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: gleeaikin; chae; Mr. Silverback
Interesting defense from the three of you...

..homosexuals, with their aberrant behavior... can hardly be classified as 'mainstream'....(regardless of what the American Psyciatric Association says)

..yet you defend them...

They can't replicate..

...they can only recruit/seduce/indoctrinate.

98 posted on 12/17/2008 5:16:21 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: Guenevere

“Most gay men never kill anyone, let alone a young boy
And you base this on what?

Wayne Gacy, Leopold & Loeb ....”

I didn’t say there weren’t a lot of gay men who are killers. There’s also a very long list of hetero killers too. I simply said most gay men never kill anyone. Do you really think that most (i.e. more than 50%) of gay men kill someone? By the way, I never endorsed the gay lifestyle in my comment, from what I’ve seen they tend to have much higher rates of drug abuse, suicide, and venereal disease, so it’s not a lifestyle that is generally conducive to good health.


99 posted on 12/17/2008 6:15:18 AM PST by Texan Tory
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To: Guenevere; gleeaikin; chae

With all due respect, madame, descend from your high horse.

Saying that a few serial killers don’t implicate every homsexual man as a serial killing child molester is not “defending” homosexual behavior.

If we used your logic, every heterosexual man should be considered a rapist until proven innocent, and anyone who says different is defending rape.


100 posted on 12/17/2008 8:08:25 AM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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