p /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"27 years is a long time to look for closure, not that it can ever come when your child is murdered./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Today the a href="http://www.news4jax.com/news/18292526/detail.html"Hollywood, Florida police chief /aannounced that the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh had been solved./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Adam was never seen alive after his mother lost him in a mall Sears store. Reportedly the 6-year-old had gone to look at the video arcade just as a 17-year old guard told all of the kids to leave./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Adamrsquo;s head was found in a Florida canal two weeks later. His body was never found./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"His father, John Walsh went on to become the host of the Fox show, ldquo;Americas Most Wanted,rdquo; and an advocate for childrenrsquo;s rights and for curtailing the rights of perpetrators, especially pedophiles./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"The man named today, Ottis Toole, was a long-time suspect and no surprise./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"a href="http://www.news4jax.com/news/18292526/detail.html"Ottis Toole came from the Springfield section of downtown Jacksonville/a. Born in 1947 to poverty, Toolersquo;s father abandoned the family when he was six. Toole claimed to have been sexually abused at an early age, and sent out in dresses by his mother. His grandmother practiced voodoo reportedly. Toole suffered from learning disorders, was illiterate, and suffered from epilepsy./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Toole claims he started murdering when he was 14 years old. Police didnrsquo;t know what to believe. Back there was no DNA evidence to make a match, even for the blood found in the trunk of his car after Adam was kidnapped./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Former Jacksonville homicide detective, a href="http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/crime/2008-12-16/notorious_case_involving_jacksonville_man_and_most_wanted_hosts_murdered"Jesse ldquo;Buddyrdquo; Terry /asays he, along with Walsh, never doubted that Toole killed the boy. Toole had confessed to Terry about the beheading in 1983, even showing Terry where he killed the boy./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"ldquo;He told us he killed a little boy down South and it made headlines,rdquo; Terry told the a href="http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/crime/2008-12-16/notorious_case_involving_jacksonville_man_and_most_wanted_hosts_murdered"Florida Times Union in a phone interview./a/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"But Hollywood police thought that Terry coerced the confession and provided confidential information to Toole about the case so he could write a book and gain movie rights to Toolersquo;s life story./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"a href="http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/crime/2008-12-16/notorious_case_involving_jacksonville_man_and_most_wanted_hosts_murdered"Terry told the Florida Times-Union/a, he feels with the closing of this case, his reputation has finally been salvaged./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10.2pt; line-height: 15.6pt"ldquo;Itrsquo;s about time,rdquo; Terry, 71, said of the casersquo;s resolution. ldquo;We had no book deal or anything else.rdquo;/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Toole died in prison more than a decade ago, allegedly giving his niece a deathbed confession to the crime. He had confessed to more than 100 murders, many with serial killer Henry Lee Lucas whom he met in a Jacksonville soup kitchen./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"ldquo;I have no doubt, Irsquo;ve never had any doubt,rdquo; Walsh always said./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Ironically, the child protection laws that Adam Walshrsquo;s death sparked might have helped intervene in the life of this deranged, mentally incompetent and a href="http://www.bookrags.com/biography/ottis-toole-cri/"sexually abused child/a who became the killer Toole./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"As many of the laws now encourage, step in and help a child you see in trouble. You might be averting the creation of a serial killer and save many lives down the line. #/p
p /pa href="http://jacksonville.injuryboard.com/wrongful-death/jacksonville-link-to-killer-of-adam-walsh-.aspx?googleid=253432"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Eddie-Farah"Eddie Farah/a
