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MURDERED: Adam Walsh (Preview)

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True Crime

4.7352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In 1981 a young boy named Adam was abducted by a stranger from a shopping plaza. It would take almost three decades to bring closure to his family but in that time Adam’s legacy would forever change the way America views and handles missing children cases.

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0:00.0

Hi, crime junkies. This is Ashley Flowers. If you listened all the way to the end of our episode, which I know some of you don't do,

0:06.8

you'll know that we're taking this week off for Labor Day spending some time with our families.

0:11.0

However, we never take off in the fan club when a fan club episode is due and today a

0:17.4

fan club episode was due. So if you need your fix, if you can't get enough true crime,

0:23.3

I'm gonna play a clip of the episode that we have available right now.

0:28.3

Just go to our website crimejunkiepodcast.com and click the fan club link to learn how to sign up.

0:34.8

You can get this episode for $5 and when you sign up for $5, you also get the entire

0:41.5

backlog of fan club content as well. That's over 36

0:45.7

episodes. You can binge for $5. It's a little crazy.

0:49.2

But if you just want a little taste of true crime, enjoy this little teaser.

1:20.0

It was around 1215 on July 27, 1981 when Reveye Walsh was making her way from the lamp

1:32.5

aisle at Sears to a video game display station to get her son. They had gone there to get some

1:37.8

very specific lamps that her husband John told her on sale, but the store didn't end up

1:42.7

having any in stock. So the trip was kind of a bust. When they had come in, Adam was begging to

1:47.7

play the game. I mean, like what six-year-old kid wants to just look at lamps. So Reveye had left

1:53.4

him there with a group of kids, but when she rounded the corner when she was coming back from the

1:57.4

lamp section, the game station was totally empty. And I have to imagine at first her thought wasn't

2:04.0

like a media panic. She was gone 5, 10, maybe 15 minutes tops. Like he probably went looking for her.

2:11.4

And Reveye even said in an interview with ABC that the last thing she said to Adam when she left

2:15.8

him was I'm going to the lamp section and he says, okay, mommy, I know where that is. So you know,

2:21.4

my logical thinking is that she was probably thinking like, oh, he went to look for me somehow we missed

2:26.2

each other. Yeah, just like pass each other in the aisles or whatever. Yeah. So she began to search

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