The Forensic Nurse

Police in Hollywood Florida today announced that Ottis Toole who had long been the primary suspect in the murder of Adam Walsh. John Walsh the boy’s father came to nation attention back in 1981 as he pleaded and worked with police to find his son.

Fisherman discovered the decapitated head of Adam walsh in a river over 120 miles away from where the boy was abducted. The remains of his body have still not been found to this day.

Police were riduculed for their repeated bungling of the case and the case evidence. The bloodstained carpeting found in Toole’s car that would have provided DNA evidence to tie him to the case was lost.

Following his son’s death, John walsh became obsessed with finding his son’s murderer and helping to be sure that other children and families didnt have to endure what he had gone through. 

He gained national attention when he starred in the America’s Most Wanted television show in the 1980s’. After serveral years of hosting the show and testifying to congress, the Adam Walsh Child Protecion Act was passed.

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