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Dahmer killed Adam Walsh Jul 24, 2009
The Hollywood, Florida police say they've solved the Adam Walsh murder -- but do they really think that? They should read this book -- of course, they won't like it much. The most logical conclusion is Jeffrey Dahmer did it. Police are stuck on Ottis Toole, but the only support for that is his not-credible confession, which rightly got dismissed in 1983. The police never acknowledged they had any witnesses who saw Adam taken from the toy department of a Sears where his mother had left him alone. But by combing deep through the police's own files, Harris found six witnesses who repeatedly had tried to be heard. Police had asked them whether they'd seen Toole. They hadn't -- and were told Thank you very much, now go away. Harris asked whether they'd seen Dahmer. Two had already told police that's who they'd seen, two more absolutely confirmed it, and two more came close, with emotional reactions to seeing Dahmer's picture and recognizing it as who they likely saw taking Adam out of the store. Harris has more supporting the Dahmer argument, but what more do the police need to start honestly considering this? Although this book has a lot of new information about Dahmer, it's less a regular true crime story about violence and more about a close examination of a police investigation -- one gone very, very wrong beginning on the day of Adam's kidnapping to the day they closed the case -- on Toole! Harris is a first-class reporter and has thoroughly documented the book with material from the police case file, supplemented by his own 13-year investigation. It took that long because the police kept their records from public view as long as they could. The book is a rare and riveting look into a case that was the biggest in the city's history.
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