Posted on 12/17/2008 9:42:36 AM PST by AJKauf
Earlier this month, an Associated Press probe of FBI figures revealed that, despite technological advances in criminalistics, it’s just easier to get away with murder nowadays. The clearance rate of homicides, or cases solved in a year, stood at 61 percent nationwide in 2007, a steady slip over the decades from the first year of modern record-keeping, 1963, when the clearance rate was 91 percent.
In addition to DNA and other scientific advances that should be helping catch more criminals, not fewer, law enforcement also now has the benefit of reaping tips and captures with the help of modern media. America’s Most Wanted, the longest-running show on the Fox network, boasts 1,049 criminals caught with the program’s help as of this writing — yet for 27 years, host John Walsh has been at the center of one of America’s most infamous unsolved mysteries.
Until Tuesday, that is, when police and Walsh agreed that it was time to finger the killer and abductor of his son, six-year-old Adam Walsh, and close the books on the 1981 case....
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This story always remains close to my heart. My oldest son, who is 33 years old now, was visiting his grandparents in Hollywood, Florida on the day of this kidnapping at the Sears store. They were in that same store at 10:00AM that morning to exchange something.
My son got a real lesson about talking to strangers that morning and he still remembers it. He called me last night to tell me that the case was being closed.
For which Faux News-Obama is forever grateful!
Greta's Career Is SAVED!!
Oh my! I feel the chills going down my spine. So sorry for the Walshes, glad for you and your family.
Everybody I talked to had the same opinion about this story.
WTH would anyone in that family want to be thrust into the news once more for a NON-STORY. I would not want to read AGAIN that my decapitated little boy was murdered by the man that I know probably did it for the last 10 years.
And don’t give me that psychobabble “closure” crap. There IS no closure to the suffering that the Walsh family has endured and WILL endure each and every anniversary of this terrible story
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