![]() They declined to be specific about their evidence and noted they had no DNA proof of the crime, but said an extensive review of the case file pointed only to Toole, as John Wash had long contended. Police said Toole was long the prime suspect in the case and that they had conclusively linked him to the killing. Toole's niece told the boy's father, John Walsh, her uncle confessed on his deathbed in prison that he killed Adam. He claimed responsibility for hundreds of murders, but police determined most of the confessions were lies. The suspect, Ottis Toole, had twice confessed to killing the child, but later recanted. The not knowing has been a torture, but that journey's over." "Who could take a 6-year-old and murder and decapitate him? Who?" an emotional John Walsh said at Tuesday's news conference. ![]() ![]() The announcement brought to a close a case that has grieved the Walsh family for more than two decades, launched the television show about the nation's most notorious criminals and inspired changes in how authorities search for missing children. A serial killer who died more than a decade ago is the person who decapitated the 6-year-old son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh in 1981, police in Florida said Tuesday. ![]()
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