While Adam and his mother were separated in that brief span of time, a scuffle broke out among a group of teenagers at the Atari display. What ended up happening to Adam was unheard of in that era. Back in those days, it was perfectly normal and safe for children to be away from their parents in public. His mother left him alone for only a minute or two to go look for a lamp only three aisles away while he played with the new Atari video game system display near the front of the store. The Hollywood Police Department is still located right across the street from the mall, just as it was in 1981.Īdam was abducted from the Sears department store in the Hollywood Mall on Hollywood Blvd and Park Road when he was six years old. Although there are still several stores located in this shopping mall, it is no longer the popular, bustling shopping center that it once was 35+ years ago. After the news of Adam’s fatal abduction from this shopping mall became national news, the entire mall suffered from a substantial lack of business. In 1993, it was remodeled into a Target store, but you can still see the resemblance between the shape of the old building in 1981 and the current building now. This is what the Hollywood Mall Sears store looked like in 1981 when Adam was abducted from it….Īnd this is what the store looks like today. When I realized that I didn’t live far from the spot where Adam was abducted, I decided to go see it for myself in person.
I looked through many, many pages of witness testimonies, police report statements, crime scene photos, and police interviews with Ottis Toole, the man who was eventually named as Adam’s killer. Since the case was finally officially solved and closed back in 2008, all of the police documents from the original case are now available to the public through the Hollywood Police Department. I became curious about this case and began reading about it online.
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And I remember watching his father, John Walsh, on his own TV show “America’s Most Wanted” every week for many years.Īfter I moved to Florida a few years ago, I remembered this old case when I realized that I now lived very close to where it had occurred long ago in 1981.
When I was growing up as a child in the 1980’s, I remembered hearing stories about a little boy down in Florida named Adam Walsh who had been kidnapped from a Sears store and had his head cut off.