POLICE MISCONDUCT
Gives the Walsh Family
FALSE CLOSURE
Adam Walsh Murder Solved - December 16, 2008 HOLLYWOOD, Florida
On December 16, 2008, the HPD announced - with John, Reve, and Adam’s siblings present - that their investigations of the murder would be closed, based in part on the Matthews’ Report. In actuality, the case was closed based fully on Matthews’ self-serving report. At that press conference announcing the closure of the case, the HPD explained that they had closed their investigations because Matthews had provided conclusive evidence that Toole was the murderer and no further investigation was needed. The State Attorney’s Office agreed.
Using John Walsh’s name, Joe Matthews had such influence over the incorrigible Chief Wagner as well as the ineffective Mr. Morton at the Broward County State Attorney’s Office that he could’ve convinced them to indict a ham sandwich.
EXPOSING THE CHIEF
Watch the Chief tell a lie on national TV. He says Matthews report claiming that it was Ottis Toole that murdered Adam is consistent with the opinions of investigators past and present. None of the original detectives think that Ottis Toole was responsible for Adam’s abduction and murder. Matthews is the exception. I personally talked to the second lead detective, Ron Hickman. He is adamant about Toole’s noninvolvement and lead detective Jack Hoffman said he would stake his professional career on Ottis Toole not being involved.
-Willis Morgan-
Hollywood Police Deliberately Closed the Adam Walsh Case Incorrectly
This is the video where the Hollywood Police Department officially closed the Adam Walsh case:
Excerpt from: A&E TV | Published on Nov 8, 2013
The Case of Adam Walsh
Lieutenant Smith was put in charge of the Adam Walsh case files in 1994 after the original lead detective Hoffman was removed from the case at a time when the Hollywood Police Department was being sued for the case files. Smith was sold to the media as a new "Hot Shot cold case specialist." The reality is Smith was more of a "cover-up specialist." In this short video you will hear smith deny that there were any witnesses.
Keep in mind, Jeffrey Dahmer was captured in 1991 and the Hollywood Police Department was in full cover-up mode starting when Jeffrey Dahmer was captured in 1991.
John Walsh holds a press conference that was based on misinformation given to him:
Reve Walsh gives a heartbreaking speech that was based on misinformation given to her:
Although the Walshes believed Adam's killer was Ottis Toole, it was undoubtedly Detective Joe Matthews who helped solidify that belief. Matthews made up his misguided fictional report and presented it to the new, inexperienced, and incompetent police chief as the truth- at a time when that police department was the perfect soil for growing fiction with his Ottis Toole theories.
John Walsh, from the TV show America's Most Wanted, along with his wife, Reve, embrace after a press conference with the Hollywood Police to announce they have identified the killer of eight year-old Adam Walsh nearly three decades ago. Behind them are Joe Matthews, the original polygrapher in the case and former prosecutor in the case Kelly Hancock. Hollywood Police Chief Chadwick Wagner announced that convicted serial killer Ottis Toole abducted and killed the 6-year-old boy 27 years ago.
From the Florida Files: Conversation with Mia Taylor
Episode Five: John Walsh rejects Jeffrey Dahmer theory
America's Most Wanted' host speaks about disappearance of Adam Walsh
By Michelle F. Solomon - Podcast Producer/Reporter
Interview Inconsistencies: WARNING: Did John Walsh not realize he was being recorded for a podcast because he uses some colorful, if not nasty, language in his interview with Michelle Solomon.
At 4:00: John Walsh says Ottis Toole never recanted his statement. “It was his state assigned attorney that says he recanted.”
NOT TRUE: Since Ottis Toole’s trail for the death of sixty-four-year-old George Nicholas Sonnenberg was over he didn’t have an attorney when he made his many recantations.
At 8:20: John Walsh says the HPD lost Ottis tool’s car.
NOT TRUE: In Joe Matthews’s book Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America, he suggests the Cadillac simply vanished. Also not true: The Jacksonville Crime Lab didn’t lose the 4,200-pound piece of evidence as others would like you to believe. After the 1971 white Cadillac was fully tested, it was properly returned to Wells Brothers Used Cars, its rightful owners, as required by standard procedure. The car couldn’t be sold and was eventually junked for $50.
At 9:15: John Walsh says no one would let him look at the files and requested the files be opened in 2007.
NOT TRUE: The Adam Walsh case files have been opened to the public since 1996 when the 17th district court ordered them to be made available for public viewing.
At 10:40: john Walsh asks, “Who could decapitate a little boy.”
THE ANSWER: Jeffrey Dahmer, not Ottis Toole. Ottis Toole’s only real, proven victim was sixty-four-
years-old, and even that death was most likely the result of an arson accident. Toole never harmed a boy of any age, nor did Toole ever decapitate anyone.
At 10:50: John Walsh says Adam was ordered out of the store. NOT TRUE: Security guard Kathryn (Shaffer) Barrack did not ask Adam to leave the store. Adam was already missing for 20-minutes before she reported to the toy department.
At 11:50: John Walsh says Adam was ordered out of the store along with two white boys from Argentina. NOT TRUE: The two boys john is referring to were from Caracas, Venezuela. Sears even sent two of their attorney’s to Venezuela to interview them.
At around 12:40-12:50, the security guard asked two black boys and the two boys from Caracas to leave. That equals four, the total number of boys that she asked to leave. Adam was already missing for around 20-minutes, so he was not among them.
At 25:50: John Walsh calls the Dahmer link “B--L S--T.” Then he tells Michelle, if she leads with the Dahmer link, she will never hear from him again. John also accuses me of writing a book, for money that threw the investigation of course. Wow! It was Detective Joe Matthews who came up with a false narrative and wrote a book for money. For me it’s about getting to the truth.
At 26:48: John Walsh says two FBI agents claim Dahmer had nothing to do with Adam’s abduction.
NOT TRUE: FBI Agent Bill Hagerty, who interviewed Ottis Toole, said Toole didn’t do it, and FBI Agent Neil Purtell, who interviewed Jeffrey Dahmer, said Dahmer could’ve done it. Dahmer’s own father had called the producers at America’s Most Wanted soon after his son was captured to tell them that Jeffrey Dahmer was a pedophile, and that he thought his son could be responsible for Adam’s abduction.
At 27:10: To this day, the Milwaukee Police Department continues to play down Jeffrey Dahmer’s role through spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz, who continues to use their spin tactics, saying Dahmer doesn’t fit the profile of someone who would murder Adam.
