![]() It was a week after the boy's disappearance before the FBI got involved. Still, he praised the Hollywood police department for closing the case, and said it was not a day to place blame.Īuthorities made a series of crucial errors, losing the bloodstained carpeting in Toole's car - preventing DNA testing - and the car itself. The Walshes long ago derided the investigation as botched, and John Walsh has said he believed Toole killed his son. Toole's niece told the boy's father, John Walsh, her uncle confessed on his deathbed in prison that he killed Adam. He claimed responsibility for hundreds of murders, but police determined most of the confessions were lies. ![]() The suspect, Ottis Toole, had twice confessed to the killing, but later recanted. The not knowing has been a torture, but that journey's over." ![]() "Who could take a 6-year-old and murder and decapitate him? Who?" John Walsh said at Tuesday's news conference. The announcement brought to a close a case that has vexed the Walsh family for more than two decades, launched the television show about the nation's most notorious criminals and inspired changes in how authorities search for missing children. A serial killer who died more than a decade ago is the person who decapitated the 6-year-old son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh in 1981, Florida police said Tuesday. ![]()
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