While our lives have been significantly altered by Adam Walsh's case, few of us know the whole story—how, after more than twenty-seven years of relentless investigation, decorated Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews finally identified Adam's killer. Bringing Adam Home is the definitive account of this horrifying crime—which, like the Lindbergh kidnapping fifty years earlier, captured /5(). “BRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!” (Ann Hood, author of THE RED THREAD and THE KNITTING CIRCLE)/5(). Bringing Adam Home by author Les Standiford is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and mother’s efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution/5().
Today's post is on Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America by Les Standiford and Joe Matthews. It is pages long and is published by Harper Collins. The cover is a picture of a single child's swing with the sun setting in front of it. The intended reader is someone who is interested in true crime. Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no federal databases of crimes against children. His abduction and murder—unsolved for more than a quarter of a century—forever changed America. Shocked by Adam's murder and the inability of the police and FBI to find his killer, Adam's parents, RevÉ and John Walsh—who would go on to create America's Most Wanted. "Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America by Les Standiford, Joe Matthews.
Bringing Adam Home follows the story of the investigation into Adam Walsh's abduction all through the years until retired Miami homicide detective Joe Matthews brought together all the existing evidence and proved conclusively that Ottis Toole was the killer. It is a story of a long-botched investigation and of the serial killer who confessed to the killing over and over again - even on his death bed - yet the Hollywood, FL police department seemed more interested in clearing him than in. While our lives have been significantly altered by Adam Walsh's case, few of us know the whole story: how, after more than 27 years of relentless investigation, decorated Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews finally identified Adam's killer. Bringing Adam Home is the definitive account of this horrifying crime. Relates the full, twenty-seven-year story behind the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh, the six-year-old son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh, as well as the decades-long search for the boy's elusive killer. In the beginning -- Blood of the lamb -- World of hurt -- Through the boneyard -- As evil does -- Thunder from Heaven.
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