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Ottis Toole

Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) was an American vagabond and serial killer who was convicted of six counts of murder. Like his companion Henry Lee Lucas, Toole made confessions which he later recanted, which resulted in murder convictions. The discrediting of the case against Lucas for crimes for which Toole had offered corroborating statements created doubts as to whether either was a genuine serial killer or, as Hugh Aynesworth suggested, both were merely compliant interviewees who police used to clear unsolved murders from the books.

Ottis Toole
Toole in a 1983 mugshot taken shortly after his arrest
Born
Ottis Elwood Toole

(1947-03-05)March 5, 1947
DiedSeptember 15, 1996(1996-09-15) (aged 49)
Resting placeFlorida State Prison Cemetery, Starke, Florida, United States
Occupation(s)Male prostitute and drifter
Criminal statusDeceased
SpouseNovella Henry
Conviction(s)
Criminal penalty
Details
Span of crimes
1961–1983
CountryUnited States
State(s)Michigan, Florida and Texas
Killed6 convicted, 1 suspected, hundreds more claimed
WeaponsCrucifixion and then consumption of people (preferred M.O.)
Date apprehended
June 15, 1983
Imprisoned atFlorida State Prison

Toole received two death sentences, but on appeal, they were commuted to life imprisonment. He died in his cell from cirrhosis, at age 49. Police attributed the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh to Toole on the basis of recanted statements. Lucas had backed Toole's confession to the Walsh murder, claiming that he had been in possession of the victim's severed head, though Lucas had a reputation for false confessions.

Early life

Ottis Toole was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. Toole's father was an alcoholic who abandoned him, while his abusive mother would dress him in girls' clothing and call him Susan.[1] As a young child he was a victim of sexual abuse and forced incest at the hands of many close relatives and acquaintances, including his older sister and a next-door neighbor. He stated that his maternal grandmother was a Satanist who exposed him to various Satanic practices and rituals in his youth, including graverobbing.[2] Toole claimed this abuse began when he revealed his homosexuality to his family.[1]

Toole was often classified as having a mild intellectual disability, with an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 75.[1] He also had epilepsy, which resulted in frequent grand mal seizures. Throughout Toole's childhood, he frequently ran away from home and often slept in abandoned houses. He was a serial arsonist from a young age and was sexually aroused by fire.[3]

In the documentary Death Diploma, Toole stated that he was forced to have sex with a friend of his father's when he was five years old. He felt he knew that he was gay when he was 10 years old and that he had a sexual relationship with a neighborhood boy when he was 12. Toole dropped out of school in the ninth grade and began visiting gay bars. He also stated he had been a male prostitute as a teenager and that he became obsessed with gay pornography at some point.[1]

Toole stated that he committed his first murder at the age of 14; after being propositioned for sex by a traveling salesman, Toole ran over the salesman with his own car.[1] Toole was first arrested at the age of 17 in August 1965 for loitering.

Much information on Toole between 1966 and 1973 is unclear, but authorities believe that he began drifting around the Southwestern United States and that he supported himself by prostitution and panhandling. While living in Nebraska, Toole was one of the prime suspects in the 1974 murder of 24-year-old Patricia Webb. Shortly after, he left Nebraska and briefly settled in Boulder, Colorado. One month later, he became a prime suspect in the homicide of 31-year-old Ellen Holman, who was murdered on October 14, 1974. With many accusations against him, Toole left Boulder and headed back to Jacksonville.

In early 1975, Toole returned to Jacksonville after drifting and hitch-hiking through the American South. On January 14, 1976, he married a woman 25 years his senior. She left him three days later, after discovering his homosexuality. Toole later said during an interview that his marriage was a tactic meant to conceal his true sexuality.[1]

Murders and imprisonment

 
Lucas (left) and Toole together

In 1976 Toole met Henry Lee Lucas at a Jacksonville soup kitchen,[1] and they likely developed a sexual relationship.[4] Toole later claimed to have accompanied Lucas in 108 murders, sometimes committed at the behest of a cult called "the Hands of Death". Police, however, discounted the uncorroborated claim of the cult's existence.[1]

On January 4, 1982, Toole barricaded 65-year-old George Sonnenberg in a boarding house where he was living in Jacksonville and set the house on fire. Sonnenberg died a week later of injuries he sustained in the fire. In April 1983, Toole was arrested for an unrelated arson incident in Jacksonville. Toole confessed to the crime and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.[5] Toole signed a confession stating that he and Sonnenberg had begun a sexual relationship and, after the two had an argument, Toole set Sonnenberg's home on fire.[6]

Two months later in June, his accomplice Henry Lee Lucas was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm. It was then Lucas began boasting about the murderous rampage orchestrated by the two. At first, Toole had denied involvement but later began backing up Lucas's confessions. Lucas also backed Toole's confession to the murder of Adam Walsh. Journalist Hugh Aynesworth and others investigated for articles that appeared in The Dallas Times Herald. It was calculated that Lucas would have had to use his 13-year-old Ford station wagon to cover 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) in one month i.e., around 370 miles (600 km) per day, to have committed the crimes police attributed to him. Lucas became widely regarded as a compliant interviewee who was used by police to clear up unsolved murders that he had not been involved in, aided by Toole giving false statements in collaboration.[7]

During Toole's trial for murdering George Sonnenberg, Toole claimed that he did not light the home on fire and only signed the confession so he would be extradited back to Jacksonville.[6] On April 28, 1984, a jury found Toole guilty of first degree murder and sentenced him to death.[5][8] Later that year, Toole was found guilty of the February 1983 strangulation murder of a 19-year-old Tallahassee, Florida woman, and received a second death sentence; on appeal, however, both sentences were later commuted to life in prison.[citation needed]

After his incarceration, Toole pled guilty to four more Jacksonville murders in 1991 and received four more life sentences.[9]

Murder of Adam Walsh

On October 21, 1983, while he was imprisoned for two unrelated murders, Toole confessed to the 1981 murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh.[10] A few weeks after Toole made the confession, however, police officers who were investigating the case announced that they had lost Toole's impounded car and machete. John Walsh, Adam's father, continues to believe that Toole was guilty.[11] On December 16, 2008, 27 years after the 1981 murder Hollywood, Florida, police announced Toole as the murderer, and the Adam Walsh case was closed.[12][13] The police did not reveal any new physical evidence and pointed out that they still had no DNA evidence.[12][14]

In 1984, Toole confessed to two unsolved northwest Florida slayings, including one of the I-10 murders. During an interview, he admitted to killing 18-year-old David Schallart, a hitchhiker who he picked up east of Pensacola. Schallart's body, bearing five gunshot wounds in the left side of the head, was found on February 6, 1980, approximately 125 feet (38 meters) off I-10's eastbound lane, five miles (8.0 km) east of Chipley. The second confession involved the death of 20-year-old Ada Johnson. Toole confessed that he shot her in the head on a road outside of Fort Walton Beach after kidnapping her at gunpoint at a Tallahassee nightclub.[15] Psychiatrists Dr. Urbina and Dr. Sanches testified at Toole's 1984 Florida Supreme Court appeal that he was extremely impulsive and exhibited antisocial behavior as a result of a personality disorder and that he was a pyromaniac.[16] The court found sufficient evidence that Toole could be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.[16]

Toole claimed that he picked Walsh up in a Sears mall parking lot. Toole stated that Walsh came willingly because he offered Walsh candy and toys. Walsh soon wanted to go home and began to cry. Toole said that he then punched Walsh in the face. Walsh started to cry again, and according to Toole, he began to "wallop" Walsh, knocking him out. Toole eventually pulled over in a rural area and decapitated Walsh with a machete. He drove around with Walsh's head for several days, forgot about it, and, after he rediscovered it, he tossed it into a nearby canal. Police officers inexplicably lost Toole's impounded car and its bloodstained carpeting, hindering their ability to proceed with the investigation into Adam Walsh's murder.[12][14]

Hollywood, Florida Police Chief Chadwick Wagner said that Toole had been the prime suspect all along, but he went on to admit that although Toole's case was weak, he could have been charged during the original investigation of it.[13] Wagner acknowledged the fact that many mistakes were made by the department and apologized to the Walsh family on its behalf. Wagner also acknowledged the fact that the lack of new evidence and the inability of Toole to defend himself could provide room for skeptics to doubt Toole's guilt, saying, "If you're looking for that magic wand, that one piece of evidence, it's not there."[13] However, after the police reexamined previously uncorrelated evidence, they and the Walsh family were both satisfied with the new report and the existing evidence which only points to Ottis Toole.[12][13][17]

In response to the naming of his son's alleged murderer, John Walsh stated: "We can now move forward knowing positively who killed our beautiful little boy."[17]

The decision was finally reached when Toole's niece told John Walsh that her uncle confessed that he had murdered and decapitated Adam on his deathbed in prison.[11]

The book Frustrated Witness, written by former Miami Herald writer Willis Morgan, examines the Walsh case and cites circumstantial evidence which suggests that another serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, may have killed Walsh. At the time of Walsh's murder, Dahmer was living a short drive away in Miami Beach and working at a sub shop where he had access to a blue van which was similar to the one which was seen leaving the mall after Walsh's disappearance. A number of witnesses reported seeing a man who looked like Dahmer talking to young boys at the mall. When he was interviewed about Adam in the early 1990s, Dahmer repeatedly denied his involvement in the crime, even stating; "I've told you everything—how I killed them, how I cooked them, who I ate. Why wouldn't I tell you if I did it to someone else?"[18] After this rumor surfaced, John Walsh stated that he had "seen no evidence" linking his son's kidnapping and murder to Dahmer.[18]

Death

Toole died of cirrhosis at the Florida State Prison on September 15, 1996, at the age of 49. His body went unclaimed and he was buried in the Florida State Prison cemetery.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Ramsland, Katherine. . Crime Library. Archived from the original on February 10, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
  2. ^ Ramsland, Katherine (November 29, 2016). "Boys Dressed as Girls Who Became Serial Killers". Psychology Today. New York City: Sussex Publishers. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
  3. ^ Holmes, Stephen T.; Holmes, Ronald M. (2009). Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behaviors. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. p. 196. ISBN 978-1412952989.
  4. ^ . Fox News. December 16, 2008. Archived from the original on December 17, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2008. Toole met Lucas in 1978, and the two "joined forces as a homosexual crime team, criss-crossing the country from 1978-1983", according to America's Most Wanted, started by Adam Walsh's father John Walsh.
  5. ^ a b "Ottis Toole sentenced to death following rooming-house arson". Gainesville Sun. May 19, 1984. p. 8A. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Sentence For Toole Overturned". The Palm Beach Post. November 26, 1985. p. B3. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  7. ^ Texas Monthly Jun 1985, the Henry Lee Lucas Show
  8. ^ "Drifter convicted of arson-murder". The Courier. April 27, 1984. p. 18. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  9. ^ "The Twisted Life of Serial Killer Ottis Elwood Toole". Fox News. UPI. December 16, 2008. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  10. ^ "Police Say Toole Continues To Insist Adam Walsh Was Among His Victims". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. November 24, 1983. pp. 1–E. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
  11. ^ a b CBS News.com. February 8, 2007. (internet archive)
  12. ^ a b c d Almanzar, Yolanne (December 16, 2008). "Police Expected to Close Adam Walsh Case". New York Times. Retrieved December 16, 2008. In October 1983, Mr. Toole told the police that he had abducted Adam from the mall. Adam soon wanted to leave and he began to cry. Toole claimed that he punched Adam in the face; Adam started to cry again and according to Toole, he then started "walloping" Adam. For about an hour, Toole drove until he reached an isolated dirt road, the site where he decapitated Adam. Investigators lifted bloodstained carpet from Toole's white Cadillac, but back then DNA testing was not as advanced as it is now, and as a result investigators could not tell if the blood was Adam's.
  13. ^ a b c d Holland, John (December 17, 2008). "Adam Walsh case is closed after 27 years". Los Angeles Times. Police simply took another look at 27 years of evidence, psychic revelations, often-botched police work and Toole's chilling admissions and Hollywood Police Chief Chad Wagner said Ottis Toole had been the prime suspect all along.
  14. ^ a b "Police: '81 killing of Adam Walsh solved". NBC News Digital. December 16, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  15. ^ "Toole admits to 2 Panhandle killings." Playground Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, November 11, 1984, p. 1A.
  16. ^ a b (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  17. ^ a b . America's Most Wanted. December 17, 2008. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
  18. ^ a b . Archived from the original on February 22, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2007.
  19. ^ "Partner claims Toole admitted killing boy". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. September 26, 1996. p. 5B. Retrieved May 30, 2014.

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Ottis Elwood Toole March 5 1947 September 15 1996 was an American vagabond and serial killer who was convicted of six counts of murder Like his companion Henry Lee Lucas Toole made confessions which he later recanted which resulted in murder convictions The discrediting of the case against Lucas for crimes for which Toole had offered corroborating statements created doubts as to whether either was a genuine serial killer or as Hugh Aynesworth suggested both were merely compliant interviewees who police used to clear unsolved murders from the books Ottis TooleToole in a 1983 mugshot taken shortly after his arrestBornOttis Elwood Toole 1947 03 05 March 5 1947Jacksonville Florida U S DiedSeptember 15 1996 1996 09 15 aged 49 Raiford Florida U S Resting placeFlorida State Prison Cemetery Starke Florida United StatesOccupation s Male prostitute and drifterCriminal statusDeceasedSpouseNovella HenryConviction s First degree murder 6 counts ArsonCriminal penaltyTwo death sentences plus four life sentences commuted to six life sentences without the possibility of parole murder convictions 20 years in prison arson conviction DetailsSpan of crimes1961 1983CountryUnited StatesState s Michigan Florida and TexasKilled6 convicted 1 suspected hundreds more claimedWeaponsCrucifixion and then consumption of people preferred M O Date apprehendedJune 15 1983Imprisoned atFlorida State PrisonToole received two death sentences but on appeal they were commuted to life imprisonment He died in his cell from cirrhosis at age 49 Police attributed the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh to Toole on the basis of recanted statements Lucas had backed Toole s confession to the Walsh murder claiming that he had been in possession of the victim s severed head though Lucas had a reputation for false confessions Contents 1 Early life 2 Murders and imprisonment 2 1 Murder of Adam Walsh 3 Death 4 See also 5 ReferencesEarly life EditThis section relies largely or entirely on a single source Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources Find sources Ottis Toole news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2015 Ottis Toole was born and raised in Jacksonville Florida Toole s father was an alcoholic who abandoned him while his abusive mother would dress him in girls clothing and call him Susan 1 As a young child he was a victim of sexual abuse and forced incest at the hands of many close relatives and acquaintances including his older sister and a next door neighbor He stated that his maternal grandmother was a Satanist who exposed him to various Satanic practices and rituals in his youth including graverobbing 2 Toole claimed this abuse began when he revealed his homosexuality to his family 1 Toole was often classified as having a mild intellectual disability with an intelligence quotient IQ of 75 1 He also had epilepsy which resulted in frequent grand mal seizures Throughout Toole s childhood he frequently ran away from home and often slept in abandoned houses He was a serial arsonist from a young age and was sexually aroused by fire 3 In the documentary Death Diploma Toole stated that he was forced to have sex with a friend of his father s when he was five years old He felt he knew that he was gay when he was 10 years old and that he had a sexual relationship with a neighborhood boy when he was 12 Toole dropped out of school in the ninth grade and began visiting gay bars He also stated he had been a male prostitute as a teenager and that he became obsessed with gay pornography at some point 1 Toole stated that he committed his first murder at the age of 14 after being propositioned for sex by a traveling salesman Toole ran over the salesman with his own car 1 Toole was first arrested at the age of 17 in August 1965 for loitering Much information on Toole between 1966 and 1973 is unclear but authorities believe that he began drifting around the Southwestern United States and that he supported himself by prostitution and panhandling While living in Nebraska Toole was one of the prime suspects in the 1974 murder of 24 year old Patricia Webb Shortly after he left Nebraska and briefly settled in Boulder Colorado One month later he became a prime suspect in the homicide of 31 year old Ellen Holman who was murdered on October 14 1974 With many accusations against him Toole left Boulder and headed back to Jacksonville In early 1975 Toole returned to Jacksonville after drifting and hitch hiking through the American South On January 14 1976 he married a woman 25 years his senior She left him three days later after discovering his homosexuality Toole later said during an interview that his marriage was a tactic meant to conceal his true sexuality 1 Murders and imprisonment Edit Lucas left and Toole together In 1976 Toole met Henry Lee Lucas at a Jacksonville soup kitchen 1 and they likely developed a sexual relationship 4 Toole later claimed to have accompanied Lucas in 108 murders sometimes committed at the behest of a cult called the Hands of Death Police however discounted the uncorroborated claim of the cult s existence 1 On January 4 1982 Toole barricaded 65 year old George Sonnenberg in a boarding house where he was living in Jacksonville and set the house on fire Sonnenberg died a week later of injuries he sustained in the fire In April 1983 Toole was arrested for an unrelated arson incident in Jacksonville Toole confessed to the crime and was sentenced to 20 years in prison 5 Toole signed a confession stating that he and Sonnenberg had begun a sexual relationship and after the two had an argument Toole set Sonnenberg s home on fire 6 Two months later in June his accomplice Henry Lee Lucas was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm It was then Lucas began boasting about the murderous rampage orchestrated by the two At first Toole had denied involvement but later began backing up Lucas s confessions Lucas also backed Toole s confession to the murder of Adam Walsh Journalist Hugh Aynesworth and others investigated for articles that appeared in The Dallas Times Herald It was calculated that Lucas would have had to use his 13 year old Ford station wagon to cover 11 000 miles 18 000 kilometers in one month i e around 370 miles 600 km per day to have committed the crimes police attributed to him Lucas became widely regarded as a compliant interviewee who was used by police to clear up unsolved murders that he had not been involved in aided by Toole giving false statements in collaboration 7 During Toole s trial for murdering George Sonnenberg Toole claimed that he did not light the home on fire and only signed the confession so he would be extradited back to Jacksonville 6 On April 28 1984 a jury found Toole guilty of first degree murder and sentenced him to death 5 8 Later that year Toole was found guilty of the February 1983 strangulation murder of a 19 year old Tallahassee Florida woman and received a second death sentence on appeal however both sentences were later commuted to life in prison citation needed After his incarceration Toole pled guilty to four more Jacksonville murders in 1991 and received four more life sentences 9 Murder of Adam Walsh Edit On October 21 1983 while he was imprisoned for two unrelated murders Toole confessed to the 1981 murder of six year old Adam Walsh 10 A few weeks after Toole made the confession however police officers who were investigating the case announced that they had lost Toole s impounded car and machete John Walsh Adam s father continues to believe that Toole was guilty 11 On December 16 2008 27 years after the 1981 murder Hollywood Florida police announced Toole as the murderer and the Adam Walsh case was closed 12 13 The police did not reveal any new physical evidence and pointed out that they still had no DNA evidence 12 14 In 1984 Toole confessed to two unsolved northwest Florida slayings including one of the I 10 murders During an interview he admitted to killing 18 year old David Schallart a hitchhiker who he picked up east of Pensacola Schallart s body bearing five gunshot wounds in the left side of the head was found on February 6 1980 approximately 125 feet 38 meters off I 10 s eastbound lane five miles 8 0 km east of Chipley The second confession involved the death of 20 year old Ada Johnson Toole confessed that he shot her in the head on a road outside of Fort Walton Beach after kidnapping her at gunpoint at a Tallahassee nightclub 15 Psychiatrists Dr Urbina and Dr Sanches testified at Toole s 1984 Florida Supreme Court appeal that he was extremely impulsive and exhibited antisocial behavior as a result of a personality disorder and that he was a pyromaniac 16 The court found sufficient evidence that Toole could be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder 16 Toole claimed that he picked Walsh up in a Sears mall parking lot Toole stated that Walsh came willingly because he offered Walsh candy and toys Walsh soon wanted to go home and began to cry Toole said that he then punched Walsh in the face Walsh started to cry again and according to Toole he began to wallop Walsh knocking him out Toole eventually pulled over in a rural area and decapitated Walsh with a machete He drove around with Walsh s head for several days forgot about it and after he rediscovered it he tossed it into a nearby canal Police officers inexplicably lost Toole s impounded car and its bloodstained carpeting hindering their ability to proceed with the investigation into Adam Walsh s murder 12 14 Hollywood Florida Police Chief Chadwick Wagner said that Toole had been the prime suspect all along but he went on to admit that although Toole s case was weak he could have been charged during the original investigation of it 13 Wagner acknowledged the fact that many mistakes were made by the department and apologized to the Walsh family on its behalf Wagner also acknowledged the fact that the lack of new evidence and the inability of Toole to defend himself could provide room for skeptics to doubt Toole s guilt saying If you re looking for that magic wand that one piece of evidence it s not there 13 However after the police reexamined previously uncorrelated evidence they and the Walsh family were both satisfied with the new report and the existing evidence which only points to Ottis Toole 12 13 17 In response to the naming of his son s alleged murderer John Walsh stated We can now move forward knowing positively who killed our beautiful little boy 17 The decision was finally reached when Toole s niece told John Walsh that her uncle confessed that he had murdered and decapitated Adam on his deathbed in prison 11 The book Frustrated Witness written by former Miami Herald writer Willis Morgan examines the Walsh case and cites circumstantial evidence which suggests that another serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer may have killed Walsh At the time of Walsh s murder Dahmer was living a short drive away in Miami Beach and working at a sub shop where he had access to a blue van which was similar to the one which was seen leaving the mall after Walsh s disappearance A number of witnesses reported seeing a man who looked like Dahmer talking to young boys at the mall When he was interviewed about Adam in the early 1990s Dahmer repeatedly denied his involvement in the crime even stating I ve told you everything how I killed them how I cooked them who I ate Why wouldn t I tell you if I did it to someone else 18 After this rumor surfaced John Walsh stated that he had seen no evidence linking his son s kidnapping and murder to Dahmer 18 Death EditToole died of cirrhosis at the Florida State Prison on September 15 1996 at the age of 49 His body went unclaimed and he was buried in the Florida State Prison cemetery 19 See also EditList of serial killers in the United States List of serial killers by number of victimsReferences Edit a b c d e f g h Ramsland Katherine Henry Lee Lucas prolific serial killer or prolific liar Crime Library Archived from the original on February 10 2015 Retrieved December 17 2008 Ramsland Katherine November 29 2016 Boys Dressed as Girls Who Became Serial Killers Psychology Today New York City Sussex Publishers Retrieved January 31 2016 Holmes Stephen T Holmes Ronald M 2009 Sex Crimes Patterns and Behaviors Thousand Oaks California SAGE Publications p 196 ISBN 978 1412952989 The Twisted Life of Serial Killer Ottis Elwood Toole Fox News December 16 2008 Archived from the original on December 17 2008 Retrieved December 17 2008 Toole met Lucas in 1978 and the two joined forces as a homosexual crime team criss crossing the country from 1978 1983 according to America s Most Wanted started by Adam Walsh s father John Walsh a b Ottis Toole sentenced to death following rooming house arson Gainesville Sun May 19 1984 p 8A Retrieved May 30 2014 a b Sentence For Toole Overturned The Palm Beach Post November 26 1985 p B3 Retrieved May 30 2014 Texas Monthly Jun 1985 the Henry Lee Lucas Show Drifter convicted of arson murder The Courier April 27 1984 p 18 Retrieved May 30 2014 The Twisted Life of Serial Killer Ottis Elwood Toole Fox News UPI December 16 2008 Retrieved December 21 2017 Police Say Toole Continues To Insist Adam Walsh Was Among His Victims Sarasota Herald Tribune November 24 1983 pp 1 E Retrieved May 31 2014 a b Did Dahmer Kill Most Wanted Host s Son CBS News com February 8 2007 internet archive a b c d Almanzar Yolanne December 16 2008 Police Expected to Close Adam Walsh Case New York Times Retrieved December 16 2008 In October 1983 Mr Toole told the police that he had abducted Adam from the mall Adam soon wanted to leave and he began to cry Toole claimed that he punched Adam in the face Adam started to cry again and according to Toole he then started walloping Adam For about an hour Toole drove until he reached an isolated dirt road the site where he decapitated Adam Investigators lifted bloodstained carpet from Toole s white Cadillac but back then DNA testing was not as advanced as it is now and as a result investigators could not tell if the blood was Adam s a b c d Holland John December 17 2008 Adam Walsh case is closed after 27 years Los Angeles Times Police simply took another look at 27 years of evidence psychic revelations often botched police work and Toole s chilling admissions and Hollywood Police Chief Chad Wagner said Ottis Toole had been the prime suspect all along a b Police 81 killing of Adam Walsh solved NBC News Digital December 16 2008 Retrieved December 28 2015 Toole admits to 2 Panhandle killings Playground Daily News Fort Walton Beach Florida November 11 1984 p 1A a b Florida Supreme Court PDF Archived from the original PDF on December 3 2013 Retrieved December 5 2013 a b Adam Walsh Murder Case Closed America s Most Wanted December 17 2008 Archived from the original on October 26 2012 Retrieved September 29 2009 a b Did Dahmer Have One More Victim Witnesses Say They Saw Dahmer In Mall Where Adam Walsh Disappeared 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