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Killer of "Most Wanted" host's son identified
By The New York Times
Published: 12/16/2008

FLORIDA - The murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, which raised awareness about missing children and led to television shows like “America’s Most Wanted,” has been solved, authorities said Tuesday. At a news conference, the police in Hollywood, Fla., announced that Adam was murdered by Ottis Elwood Toole, a drifter who confessed and then recanted to the murder before dying in prison in 1996.

Adam was abducted from a mall across from the police headquarters in Hollywood on July 27, 1981. His severed head was found two weeks later in Vero Beach, 120 miles north of the mall. The body was never found. John Walsh, Adam’s father and the host of “America’s Most Wanted,” was at the news conference with Adam’s mother, Reve, and their three children. Read more.

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