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There are no words to adequately express how I am feeling right now.The face of this sweet 6-year-old boy consumed South Florida when I was 14. He and his mother were shopping at the Hollywood Mall when she turned her back on him for a moment and he was gone. Forever.Who would take a little boy, murder him, decapitate him, and throw his head into a canal off of the Florida Turnpike?For 27 years -- 27 years -- the Walsh family has suffered unspeakable anguish as investigative mistake after mistake was made, and then the pedophile and convicted murderer, Ottis Toole made multiple confessions and then recanted, leading investigators on the path of other suspects.But finally...after all of this time, the current Chief of the Hollywood Police Department has concluded that through an independent review and investigation of this case, consistent with the opinions of investigators past and present, that Ottis Toole was indeed the abductor and murderer of Adam Walsh and the case will finally be closed.Watching the below video of today's press conference and the tears that John and Reve Walsh, along with their 3 children shed on this day, I can't help but to reflect on how John has taken this horrific tragedy and used it to help ensure it doesn't happen to another man's son or daughter.For all that went wrong in the probe, the case contributed to massive advances in police searches for missing youngsters and a notable shift in the view parents and children hold of the world.Adam's death, and his father's subsequent activism on his behalf, helped put faces on milk cartons, shopping bags and mailbox fliers, started fingerprinting programs and increased security at schools and stores. It spurred the creation of missing persons units at every large police department.It also prompted national legislation to create a national center, database and toll-free line devoted to missing children, and led to the start of "America's Most Wanted," which brought those cases into millions of homes. (MSNBC)I am shedding tears with
Well today, it has just turned into something entirely different with a new twist as Don Lemon from CNN is reporting portions of his interview with Jesse Jackson Jr and his wife and the possiblity that his brother "Jonathan" was the emissary in question tasked to raise 1 million for Blagojevich's campaign.