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This is the letter serial killer Ottis Toole sent to John Walsh, the father of six-year-old Adam Walsh who was abducted on July 27, 1981. Dear Walsh: I’m the person who snatched, raped and murdered and cut up the little prick teaser, Adam Walsh, and dumped his smelly ass into the canal.
Police attributed the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh to Toole on the basis of recanted statements. Lucas had backed Toole's confession to the Walsh murder, claiming that he had been in possession of the victim's severed head, though Lucas had a reputation for false confessions.
And Gerard Schaefer, the man who forged Ottis’s letters to John Walsh, the Sears Corporation, and several Florida newspapers, had promised Ottis a book deal if he’d cooperate. For several years, Sondra London, so-called “Queen of Serial Killer Groupies,” had let Ottis think she was writing his book.
Toole's niece told the boy's father, John Walsh, her uncle confessed on his deathbed in prison that he killed Adam. Wagner acknowledged numerous missteps in the investigation and apologized to the Walshes.
Mar 5, 2018 · One of the many unsolved killings Toole confessed to was the notorious murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh, who disappeared from a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida, in July 1981. The young boy’s severed head was found two weeks later in a canal — his body was never recovered.
- Matt Gilligan
Dec 6, 2019 · Perhaps most infamously, Toole confessed to the 1981 murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, the son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh, but was never convicted. Toole made a number of gruesome claims about the murder, telling police that he beheaded the young boy and cannibalized part of his body.
Apr 1, 2016 · In 2008, police from Hollywood, Florida pieced together previously unconnected evidence with Toole’s initial confession and positively ascribed the murder to Ottis Toole. While no new physical evidence was presented to the public, John Walsh has stated that he agrees with these findings.
