Jeffrey Dahmer's Dirty Secret: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh

In summer 1981 6-year-old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh, vanished from a South Florida shopping mall. His severed head was later found. In 1991, when Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee with 11 severed heads, he said he?d lived 15 minutes from that mall that same 1981 summer. Dahmer denied killing Adam but two insistent witnesses told police they saw Dahmer at that mall the day Adam disappeared. Yet police preferred the word of a serial killer. Investigative author and journalist Arthur Jay Harris traced Dahmer in Miami and built the case against him. In 2008 police announced the case was finally solved?not Dahmer but a dead man who?d falsely confessed to hundreds of murders including Adam?s. Prosecutors had long declined to charge him. But in closing the case police exposed their files. In them Harris found four more witnesses who had also seen Adam and Dahmer at the mall. The police had turned them all away, letting Adam?s true killer go to his grave keeping his dirtiest secret.  more