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The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh: Box Set: Books One and Two
THIS IS A SPECIALLY-PRICED BOX SET EDITION OF BOOKS ONE AND TWO
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ADAM WALSH SERIAL:
Did police get the Adam Walsh murder case Perfectly Wrong? The Wrong Killer and even The Wrong Victim?
At YouTube, search “Adam Walsh Serial”
The famous missing child case of Adam Walsh, a 6-year-old last seen at a Sears in a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida, in July 1981 was the worst nightmare imaginable. Two weeks later, a child’s severed head was found and identified as Adam. No one has ever been arrested for the crime.
For the most part, the case's narration has been told by the victims, Adam's parents Reve and John Walsh. However, there has been another voice, independent investigative journalist and author of five True Crime books about Florida, Arthur Jay Harris, who has continued to write about it for two decades, and has worked on it with ABC News, The Miami Herald, and others. The deeply-researched story he tells disputes almost everything that everyone in the public has been led to believe.
IN BOOK ONE, Harris shows that the taker of Adam was most likely not the drifter Ottis Toole, as police now say, but rather the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was arrested ten years later with eleven severed heads in his apartment. Harris documented him by a police report living near Hollywood as a transient about when Adam disappeared. That report had him supposedly finding a dead body in an alley behind where he worked. The report referred to a meter and storage room steps away where Harris and ABC News found blood droplets rising up a wall next to a lumberman’s axe and a sledgehammer. Was this Dahmer’s doing?
Further, Dahmer was identified by seven police witnesses who said they saw him at the mall with or near Adam when he was taken. One of those witnesses said he saw him throw Adam into a blue van and get away. Where Dahmer worked there was a blue van, easily and often taken for personal use, without permission. Early on, a blue getaway van was Hollywood’s first, best clue.
Also, a police composite drawing of a suspect in an attempted kidnapping of a similar-age child at a Sears in the next county, two weeks before Adam’s disappearance, closely matches a mug shot of Dahmer taken a year later. The similarity was confirmed by the near-victim, a witness who helped make the drawing, and a police artist Harris consulted. The photo comparison is in the book.
IN BOOK TWO, more shocking, Harris shows that all the official files are incredibly missing the most customary documents that would prove the identification of the found child who was said to be Adam. Among the documents missing are the autopsy report, a forensic dental report (considering that the ID was strictly based on a tooth comparison), and Adam's dental chart and dental X-rays. An investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed his finding.
In fact, the ID was not only shoddy and inadequate but is overwhelmingly likely wrong. In Adam’s last photo he was clearly missing both his top front teeth. A police crime scene photo, never before published, shows the found child had a mostly-in buck tooth -- a top left front tooth. Harris consulted a number of pediatric and forensic dental and medical examiner experts who confirmed the obvious: there wasn’t enough time for Adam to have grown it in that far.
All that would have been exposed at a court trial -- but more than 30 years after Adam's disappearance, there has never been one.
Yet another remarkable finding Harris made is that more than 20 years after the incident, the Walshes consented to police forensic testing that presumed a doubt about the found child's real identity.
Did police end the search for Adam too soon? Could Adam still be alive? In fact not so impossible, Harris found...
ON YOU TUBE, WATCH
ADAM WALSH SERIAL:
Did police get the Adam Walsh murder case Perfectly Wrong? The Wrong Killer and even The Wrong Victim?
At YouTube, search “Adam Walsh Serial”
The famous missing child case of Adam Walsh, a 6-year-old last seen at a Sears in a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida, in July 1981 was the worst nightmare imaginable. Two weeks later, a child’s severed head was found and identified as Adam. No one has ever been arrested for the crime.
For the most part, the case's narration has been told by the victims, Adam's parents Reve and John Walsh. However, there has been another voice, independent investigative journalist and author of five True Crime books about Florida, Arthur Jay Harris, who has continued to write about it for two decades, and has worked on it with ABC News, The Miami Herald, and others. The deeply-researched story he tells disputes almost everything that everyone in the public has been led to believe.
IN BOOK ONE, Harris shows that the taker of Adam was most likely not the drifter Ottis Toole, as police now say, but rather the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was arrested ten years later with eleven severed heads in his apartment. Harris documented him by a police report living near Hollywood as a transient about when Adam disappeared. That report had him supposedly finding a dead body in an alley behind where he worked. The report referred to a meter and storage room steps away where Harris and ABC News found blood droplets rising up a wall next to a lumberman’s axe and a sledgehammer. Was this Dahmer’s doing?
Further, Dahmer was identified by seven police witnesses who said they saw him at the mall with or near Adam when he was taken. One of those witnesses said he saw him throw Adam into a blue van and get away. Where Dahmer worked there was a blue van, easily and often taken for personal use, without permission. Early on, a blue getaway van was Hollywood’s first, best clue.
Also, a police composite drawing of a suspect in an attempted kidnapping of a similar-age child at a Sears in the next county, two weeks before Adam’s disappearance, closely matches a mug shot of Dahmer taken a year later. The similarity was confirmed by the near-victim, a witness who helped make the drawing, and a police artist Harris consulted. The photo comparison is in the book.
IN BOOK TWO, more shocking, Harris shows that all the official files are incredibly missing the most customary documents that would prove the identification of the found child who was said to be Adam. Among the documents missing are the autopsy report, a forensic dental report (considering that the ID was strictly based on a tooth comparison), and Adam's dental chart and dental X-rays. An investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed his finding.
In fact, the ID was not only shoddy and inadequate but is overwhelmingly likely wrong. In Adam’s last photo he was clearly missing both his top front teeth. A police crime scene photo, never before published, shows the found child had a mostly-in buck tooth -- a top left front tooth. Harris consulted a number of pediatric and forensic dental and medical examiner experts who confirmed the obvious: there wasn’t enough time for Adam to have grown it in that far.
All that would have been exposed at a court trial -- but more than 30 years after Adam's disappearance, there has never been one.
Yet another remarkable finding Harris made is that more than 20 years after the incident, the Walshes consented to police forensic testing that presumed a doubt about the found child's real identity.
Did police end the search for Adam too soon? Could Adam still be alive? In fact not so impossible, Harris found...
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First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Arthur Jay Harris
12 books4 followersArthur Jay Harris is the author of the investigative true crime books Speed Kills, Flowers for Mrs. Luskin, Until Proven Innocent and the two-book series with a Single Edition, Jeffrey Dahmer's Dirty Secret: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh. He lives in Florida.
For the Adam Walsh case, he has appeared on television many times: ABC Primetime; Anderson Cooper 360; Nancy Grace; Ashleigh Banfield; The Lineup; Inside Edition; Catherine Crier; Cold Blood, and on local TV in Miami and Milwaukee. He has also written stories on the case that have appeared in periodical print in The Miami Herald, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, and Miami Daily Business Review.
In addition, Art has presented on television other crime stories he has investigated at length, including on the shows Snapped; City Confidential; Prison Diaries, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, and Hard Copy.
For the Adam Walsh case, he has appeared on television many times: ABC Primetime; Anderson Cooper 360; Nancy Grace; Ashleigh Banfield; The Lineup; Inside Edition; Catherine Crier; Cold Blood, and on local TV in Miami and Milwaukee. He has also written stories on the case that have appeared in periodical print in The Miami Herald, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, and Miami Daily Business Review.
In addition, Art has presented on television other crime stories he has investigated at length, including on the shows Snapped; City Confidential; Prison Diaries, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, and Hard Copy.
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December 29, 2012
A must read for any true crime buff! Harris did an extensive amount of research on the case, and after reading this I can't see how anyone other than Dahmer killed little Adam. I also give Harris credit for addressing the flaws in some of the witnesses accounts rather than ignoring those issues or glossing over them. As someone who has read a vast variety of true crime books,I give this one the award for best research (so much so that I can forgive some of the typos I caught).
January 17, 2015
A really compelling and exhaustive piece of research. I am still not entirely convinced Dahmer killed little Adam Walsh, but I certainly cannot say he didn't. Clearly the author believes he did and is at pains to prove he did. I was very impresed with the research into the suspects, in particular Dahmer's stint with the army in Germany and in his short time in Florida. The profile on him paints him as a weird, loner aggressive/psychopathic character rather than a sad, tragic and sympathetic one later portrayed during the Milwaukee trial. Overall, it's a gripping crime book.
March 10, 2013
Absolutely terrible. The version I read was over 800 pages long, not closer to 300. And most of it was spent drumming up the same circumstantial evidence over and over; evidence that would NEVER convince a jury to convict on the charges Harris levels against Dahmer. His entire argument is that Dahmer lived in Florida and he killed people; maybe a kid. To corroborate, he has 5 or 6 people who came forward at least 10 years after the Walsh kidnap/murder to say they saw a creepy guy that might have been Dahmer at the mall while the abduction took place. The Hollywood PD thinks this is rubbish, and so do I. I can't believe someone would spend so much time "investigating" this.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 30, 2015
This book is about an unsolved crime. Harris the detective thinks that Dahmer killed little Adam. It all leads to Dahmer killing Adam but it stays a mystery.
January 4, 2023
It was so so...a lot of research, but does it add up to Dahmer being the killer?
September 22, 2011
Creepy!
September 26, 2024
I gave this book 4 stars because of the editing. I think it was just OCR scanned which sometimes made it difficult to read. As for the story itself, after the first chapter I was convinced Dahmer was responsible for Adam's death. Dahmer has always fascinated me and I never realized his first kill was 1978. No way that man went dormant until 1987 and didn't kill. He killed. He did in Germany and I'm sure he did in Florida ALOT more than just Adam. Dahmer wasn't stupid and he was master manipulator, he only told what he wanted to tell and others he kept close to his heart.
This book has lot of transcript in it and Ottis Toole was never Adam's killer. He was guided to his answers and bullied into them. Plus he just wanted the fame because he had some sick competition with a fellow killer for numbers.
Although I did enjoy this book, I won't read the next two only because law enforcement during this time frame wasn't very good when it came to handling serial killers or child murders. So much was done wrong, lost, or never followed up with.
This book has lot of transcript in it and Ottis Toole was never Adam's killer. He was guided to his answers and bullied into them. Plus he just wanted the fame because he had some sick competition with a fellow killer for numbers.
Although I did enjoy this book, I won't read the next two only because law enforcement during this time frame wasn't very good when it came to handling serial killers or child murders. So much was done wrong, lost, or never followed up with.
January 8, 2023
Eerie and too strange to talk about
I read books like this and it really makes me think that there is always more to an incident like Adam Walsh. There are so many mistakes and negligence done that you almost think its on purpose. (The carpet lost is the most insane to me)
I know cameras and DNA won't stop crime, but it will help catch people. I can only hope people cannot get away with these kinda of things.
Really, really, really good book.
I read books like this and it really makes me think that there is always more to an incident like Adam Walsh. There are so many mistakes and negligence done that you almost think its on purpose. (The carpet lost is the most insane to me)
I know cameras and DNA won't stop crime, but it will help catch people. I can only hope people cannot get away with these kinda of things.
Really, really, really good book.
August 19, 2025
The Untold Truth of Adam Walsh uncovers hidden inconsistencies and secrets in the decades-long investigation of Adam Walsh’s murder, challenging the accepted narrative and revealing what authorities may have hoped would remain hidden
September 8, 2022
A lot of research and a lot of interesting conclusions. I'm not 100% convinced, though.
August 23, 2017
If I could give 0 stars I would have.
I am an avid true crime reader and there was no possible way I could get through these books. I could not even take his theory's serious enough to laugh at them. I could only shake my head and move on. I will say I did not read the entire books, so it can be said I missed some big thing that would have made me understand his theory. However I'm okay with betting it didn't mater how much I read or skipped. So glad I only borrowed this book, its not worth paying for!
I am an avid true crime reader and there was no possible way I could get through these books. I could not even take his theory's serious enough to laugh at them. I could only shake my head and move on. I will say I did not read the entire books, so it can be said I missed some big thing that would have made me understand his theory. However I'm okay with betting it didn't mater how much I read or skipped. So glad I only borrowed this book, its not worth paying for!
December 7, 2016
Adam Walsh
This book was to complicated for the average reader. I think the author also made decisions of conclusions when no conclusions were there. I believe Adam Walsh is dead but I don't think anyone of the people in this book did the crime. I think there is or was an unknown killer out theatre and this book is what made me think that.
This book was to complicated for the average reader. I think the author also made decisions of conclusions when no conclusions were there. I believe Adam Walsh is dead but I don't think anyone of the people in this book did the crime. I think there is or was an unknown killer out theatre and this book is what made me think that.
October 8, 2016
True crime is not my favorite genre to read but at least keeps me thinking.
July 22, 2018
Wow, just wow. Can we know the unknowable?
So maybe the head was not Adam's, maybe Ottis Tool was innocent of this murder. In fact, I believe he was. Jeffrey Dahmer? Not so much.
So maybe the head was not Adam's, maybe Ottis Tool was innocent of this murder. In fact, I believe he was. Jeffrey Dahmer? Not so much.
June 11, 2023
still very unsolved
800+ pages and all you get is more question marks. All you really get is how bad the cops really screwed things. Really just a waste of time
800+ pages and all you get is more question marks. All you really get is how bad the cops really screwed things. Really just a waste of time
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