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Into The Dark

7. Solved or Unsolved - Adam Walsh, Pt. 2

Into The Dark

OH NO MEDIA

True Crime

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this mini-series of Binged, Payton discusses True Crime cases that you have probably heard of, but through a new lens… starting with Adam Walsh. Case Sources: justiceforadam.com Hollywood Police Department, Hollywood Florida — Adam Walsh investigation case files wikipedia.org, Hollywood_Fashion_Center youtube.com, channel: Willis Morgan, “Lisa Craven Interviews Florida Turnpike Witness Thomas Hayslip,” 20 June 2019 youtube.com, channel: Willis Morgan, “Witness Denis Bubb Talks About the Adam Walsh Case,” 13 Dec 2021 www.local10.com, Michelle F. Solomon, "The Florida Files — Episode One: A trip to Sears changes everything," 16 July 2018 https://media.local10.com/document_dev/2018/07/16/Detective%20Mark%20Smith%27s%20Report%20on%20Abduction%20and%20Murder%20of%20Adam%20Walsh_1531752751748_12372182_ver1.0.pdf www.tampabay.com, "Walsh case evidence long gone to junkyard," 20 February 1996” Newspapers.com sources: Fort Lauderdale News, "Search fails to find Hollywood boy," 28 July 1981, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/233272115), citing print edition, p.3B The Miami News, "Boy, 6, missing from Hollywood," 28 July 1981, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/302180921), citing print edition, p.5A Dan Ray and Zita Arocha, The Miami Herald, "Six-year-old was kidnapped, police believe," 29 July 1981, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/629479756), citing print edition, pp. 1BR, 7BR Jim Rogers and Stephen d'Oliveira, Fort Lauderdale News, "Search continues for lost boy," 3 August 1981, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/233237690), citing print edition, p.2B Dan Christensen, Fort Lauderdale News, "Woman sought in Walsh case," 6 August 1981, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/233255542), citing print edition, p.1B Stephen d'Oliveira, Fort Lauderdale News, "Adam's body found," 11 August 1981, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/233432066), citing print edition, pp. 1A, 5A Bill Luening, The Miami Herald, "Walsh story shares anguish with nation," 10 October 1983, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/626610458), citing print edition, pp. 1A, 8A Ronnie Greene and Robyn Marx, The Atlanta Constitution, "Vanishing evidence," 21 February 1996, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/403491789), citing print edition, p.B5 David Smiley and Arthur Jay Harris, The Miami Herald, "Murder Revisited: Who Really Killed Adam Walsh?," 28 March 2010, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/659410473), citing print edition, pp. 1A, 18A Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to Binge and to part two of our look at the abduction and

0:26.3

murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh.

0:29.6

In this episode, we're going to focus on the investigation and some of the leads that

0:33.8

came into the Hollywood police.

0:36.7

Sometimes it will be fragmented and non-linear because there's just so much to cover that

0:42.0

I won't even be able to get to all of it in merely two episodes.

0:45.4

This was a massive investigation that spanned over a decade.

0:50.2

And the more you know, the stranger the case grows.

0:53.6

In our last episode, we ended on the tragic news of Adam's head being discovered floating

0:59.0

in a canal alongside the Florida Turnpike, a discovery that was made after two weeks of

1:05.0

an intense search effort and national coverage in the media.

1:09.0

With Adam's parents, John and Rovey appearing front and center on daily TV appearances.

1:15.1

Now once Adam's head was recovered, it was taken to the Indian River County Medical

1:20.1

Examiner's office, where forensic examination led to a few conclusions.

1:25.9

Number one, Adam was dead before he was decapitated and had likely been killed by asphyxiation

1:32.5

or strangulation.

1:34.4

His head was severed with four or five blows from a sharp instrument, like maybe a meat

1:40.5

cleaver and the pathologist believed the head had been in the water for anywhere between

1:45.6

six and twelve days, but had only been on the surface for about 24 hours.

1:52.2

Now Hughes and Bailey, the two fishermen who discovered the head, theorized that the

1:57.0

motor on their boat may have brought the head to the surface when they were on the canal

2:01.7

the previous day.

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