Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Assassinato de Adam Walsh" in Portuguese language version.
He didn't tell the security guard his mother was in the lamp department; he followed the older boys out the west exit into the parking lot. John and Revé believe he didn't tell the security guard about his mother, because he was a timid child and mindful of authority. Knowing him, they believe he may have been too scared to say anything.
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Police believe a 17-year-old security guard asked a handful of rowdy kids who were playing video games in the toy department to leave the store. Again, based upon Revé's claim that Adam was in the store with her, investigators believed that he was grouped in with those kids, who left him alone outside the store. That was the last time he was seen.
Police simply took another look at 27 years of tips, psychic revelations, often-botched police work and a serial killer's chilling admissions and decided it was time. Time to ease the suffering of the Walsh family and time to point the finger at the man Hollywood Police Chief Chad Wagner said had been the prime suspect all along: Toole. The problem was that being a prime suspect and being proved in a court of law that one is guilty of murder are two different things.
But he also claimed he committed hundreds of murders, and cops determined he was lying about them.
In October 1983, Toole told the police that he had abducted Adam from the mall and drove for about an hour to an isolated dirt road where he decapitated him (his body was never found). Investigators lifted bloodstained carpet from his white Cadillac. But DNA testing then was not as advanced as it now, and investigators could not tell if the blood was Adam's. When a detective assigned to the case in 1994 went to order DNA testing on the bloodstained carpet from Toole's car, the carpeting and the car were found to be missing.
He didn't tell the security guard his mother was in the lamp department; he followed the older boys out the west exit into the parking lot. John and Revé believe he didn't tell the security guard about his mother, because he was a timid child and mindful of authority. Knowing him, they believe he may have been too scared to say anything.
