Thi is so sad

[source: msnbc]

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Authorities in South Florida planned to announce on Tuesday that they've finally solved the 1981 killing of a little boy whose father later gained fame as the host of "America's Most Wanted."

Hollywood police held a news conference to close the case of the abduction and homicide of 6-year-old Adam Walsh. Police identified the boy's killer as Ottis Toole, a drifter who confessed to the murder, then recanted before dying in prison in 1996.

Adam's parents, John and Reve Walsh, long ago derided the investigation as botched. Both  attended a news conference, where the Walshes gave a tearful account of what's it's been like not knowing for decades who killed their son.

The boy went missing from a Hollywood mall on July 27, 1981. Fishermen discovered his severed head in a canal 120 miles away two weeks later. The rest of his body was never found.

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Good grief, finally.

There's been another theory that Jeffrey Dahmer (who was in the area of the abduction) was the killer, but no one is quite sure and there was a confession from Toole years ago. I'm surprised this case was still considered open.

I felt so bad for John Walsh. The man that did this to his son is paying for the consequences.