John Walsh Reveals Wrenching New Detail of Son's Death 33 Years Later
by Gary Baum
12/12/14


Crime TV host John Walsh (America's Most Wanted, The Hunt with John Walsh) long has spoken of his son Adam's 1981 abduction and murder. But during a Soho House New York panel hosted by Starz on Nov. 19 — timed to the airing of The Missing, about a kidnapping — he shared a wrenching detail for the first time.

"People don't know this, but police kept Adam's severed head in the morgue for 27 years, saying you can't bury your child because it's an open capital murder," said Walsh. "We could never get Adam's remains while the case was botched."

Law enforcement closed the case in 2008 after declaring deceased drifter Ottis Toole was the killer.

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Ew! That's HORRIBLE! The Walsh family amazes me with their ability to rise from the ashes and help to raise awareness for others.

Ew! That's HORRIBLE!

No its not horrible , it just sounds horrible. They had to keep the head as evidence, if someone was to be put on trial then the head (as gross as that sounds) would be used as evidence to convict the killer and the defense would also need access to this evidence hence the police keeping it...... This sort of thing happens with some murder cases particularly those involving skeletal remains found .. ....

No its not horrible , it just sounds horrible. They had to keep the head as evidence, if someone was to be put on trial then the head (as gross as that sounds) would be used as evidence to convict the killer and the defense would also need access to this evidence hence the police keeping it...... This sort of thing happens with some murder cases particularly those involving skeletal remains found .. ....

Yeah, I get all that. It doesn't change the fact that it must have been a horrible thing for the Walsh family to endure.

wow....that's just too awful for words...

Why can't they just run tests on the body and then bury it? Why were JonBenét and others whose murders went unsolved allowed to be buried?