In 1983, serial killer Ottis Elwood Toole confessed to killing Adam with Henry Lee Lucas, another serial killer whom Toole called his "crime partner and homosexual lover.". Two weeks later, the Walshes' hopes were shattered when their little boy's head was found 100 miles away, in an irrigation ditch in Vero Beach, Fla.
Click here to read more on the murder of Adam Walsh from America's Most Wanted. Toole's niece told the boy's father, John Walsh, her uncle confessed on his deathbed in prison that he killed Adam. Convicted serial killer Ottis Toole, who was known for confessing to murders he did not commit, confessed to the murder of Adam Walsh in 1983. His severed head was found two weeks later in a drainage canal alongside Highway 60Yeehaw Junction in rural Indian River County, Florida. On Thursday, 27 years after Adam was murdered, police in Hollywood, Fla., said that Toole had confessed to the boy's murder on his deathbed, and they declared the case was closed. After the 1996 file dump, John Walsh went on a campaign to insist that Adam’s killer was Ottis Toole. Charles Montaldo is a writer and former licensed private detective who worked with law enforcement and insurance firms investigating crime and fraud. Still, Adam's father, John Walsh, who went on to become a crime activist and the creator and host of "America's Most Wanted," has rejected Harris' theory that Dahmer was Adam's real killer, saying he believed Toole's confession. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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