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Jeffrey Dahmer's Dirty Secret: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh - Special Single Edition
THE UNSOLVED "MURDER" OF ADAM WALSH
Now a two-book series (with a Special Single Edition, a condensed version of both books)
(Also titled JEFFREY DAHMER'S DIRTY SECRET: THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF ADAM WALSH)
Murder Revisited
WHO REALLY KILLED ADAM WALSH?
Maybe it was Ottis Toole, as police say. But more signs seem to point to Jeffrey Dahmer.
"Had authorities fully explored Dahmer's time in South Florida, they would have found more evidence implicating him than Toole, The Miami Herald found."
--The Miami Herald
March 28, 2010
DID DAHMER HAVE ONE MORE VICTIM?
Witnesses Say They Saw Dahmer in Mall Where Adam Walsh Disappeared
"Did Jeffrey Dahmer confess to all his crimes? A Miami author is making the case that Dahmer may be responsible for the Walsh slaying. WISN 12 News dissected his argument and has detailed the never-reported evidence that has at least one career FBI man calling to reopen the case against Dahmer."
--WISN-TV Milwaukee
February 1, 2007
DECADES LATER, NEW CLUES IN A COLD CASE
"Now a fascinating new theory has surfaced: Could one of the most famous murders of our time have been the work of one of the most famous murderers of all time? For the past 11 years, a true-crime author named Arthur Jay Harris has been investigating the case on his own, and he has uncovered a shattering revelation. Who was working only minutes from that mall that morning? Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer."
--ABC News Primetime
August 13, 2007
In 2006, investigative true crime author Arthur Jay Harris first reported that Adam Walsh's killer was most likely Jeffrey Dahmer, not Ottis Toole.
Since then, he has compiled seven police witnesses who saw a man they identified as Dahmer with or close by Adam at the mall where he was last seen.
That was all in Book One: Finding the Killer. Did Jeffrey Dahmer kidnap Adam Walsh?
Now, Harris reports the rest of the Adam Walsh story no one else has told:
Book Two: Finding the Victim: The body identified as Adam Walsh is not him. Is Adam still alive?
Two weeks after Adam disappeared, a severed head of a child was found 125 miles north of the mall. By its teeth, a medical examiner identified it as Adam. Only in 2008 did the M.E.'s files become public record; when Harris saw them he realized how thin the ID was. Worse, the child's most essential identification documents were nowhere to be found: there had been no forensic dental exam, no autopsy report was ever written, and Adam's dental records had disappeared. This should never happen. Without those documents, prosecutors could never have brought his murder to trial because they never would have been able to legally prove that the dead child was Adam Walsh. And more than 30 years later, his case never has been to trial.
Even worse, from photos of the found child's teeth compared to Adam's last photo and last-seen-alive description, it's clear that the found child is not Adam Walsh. Those photos and documents are published here for the first time.
As it turns out, the Adam Walsh case is actually about two children:
A child who was misidentified as Adam, whose true parents were never found or notified; and
An investigation into the disappearance of Adam Walsh that ended prematurely with the identification of someone else as him.
Whatever happened, then, to Adam Walsh? Harris's years-long investigation has what may be the most stunning discovery of all.
Now a two-book series (with a Special Single Edition, a condensed version of both books)
(Also titled JEFFREY DAHMER'S DIRTY SECRET: THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF ADAM WALSH)
Murder Revisited
WHO REALLY KILLED ADAM WALSH?
Maybe it was Ottis Toole, as police say. But more signs seem to point to Jeffrey Dahmer.
"Had authorities fully explored Dahmer's time in South Florida, they would have found more evidence implicating him than Toole, The Miami Herald found."
--The Miami Herald
March 28, 2010
DID DAHMER HAVE ONE MORE VICTIM?
Witnesses Say They Saw Dahmer in Mall Where Adam Walsh Disappeared
"Did Jeffrey Dahmer confess to all his crimes? A Miami author is making the case that Dahmer may be responsible for the Walsh slaying. WISN 12 News dissected his argument and has detailed the never-reported evidence that has at least one career FBI man calling to reopen the case against Dahmer."
--WISN-TV Milwaukee
February 1, 2007
DECADES LATER, NEW CLUES IN A COLD CASE
"Now a fascinating new theory has surfaced: Could one of the most famous murders of our time have been the work of one of the most famous murderers of all time? For the past 11 years, a true-crime author named Arthur Jay Harris has been investigating the case on his own, and he has uncovered a shattering revelation. Who was working only minutes from that mall that morning? Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer."
--ABC News Primetime
August 13, 2007
In 2006, investigative true crime author Arthur Jay Harris first reported that Adam Walsh's killer was most likely Jeffrey Dahmer, not Ottis Toole.
Since then, he has compiled seven police witnesses who saw a man they identified as Dahmer with or close by Adam at the mall where he was last seen.
That was all in Book One: Finding the Killer. Did Jeffrey Dahmer kidnap Adam Walsh?
Now, Harris reports the rest of the Adam Walsh story no one else has told:
Book Two: Finding the Victim: The body identified as Adam Walsh is not him. Is Adam still alive?
Two weeks after Adam disappeared, a severed head of a child was found 125 miles north of the mall. By its teeth, a medical examiner identified it as Adam. Only in 2008 did the M.E.'s files become public record; when Harris saw them he realized how thin the ID was. Worse, the child's most essential identification documents were nowhere to be found: there had been no forensic dental exam, no autopsy report was ever written, and Adam's dental records had disappeared. This should never happen. Without those documents, prosecutors could never have brought his murder to trial because they never would have been able to legally prove that the dead child was Adam Walsh. And more than 30 years later, his case never has been to trial.
Even worse, from photos of the found child's teeth compared to Adam's last photo and last-seen-alive description, it's clear that the found child is not Adam Walsh. Those photos and documents are published here for the first time.
As it turns out, the Adam Walsh case is actually about two children:
A child who was misidentified as Adam, whose true parents were never found or notified; and
An investigation into the disappearance of Adam Walsh that ended prematurely with the identification of someone else as him.
Whatever happened, then, to Adam Walsh? Harris's years-long investigation has what may be the most stunning discovery of all.
- GenresTrue Crime
110 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 6, 2013
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About the author
Arthur Jay Harris
12 books4 followersArthur Jay Harris is the author of the investigative true crime books Speed Kills, Flowers for Mrs. Luskin, Until Proven Innocent and the two-book series with a Single Edition, Jeffrey Dahmer's Dirty Secret: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh. He lives in Florida.
For the Adam Walsh case, he has appeared on television many times: ABC Primetime; Anderson Cooper 360; Nancy Grace; Ashleigh Banfield; The Lineup; Inside Edition; Catherine Crier; Cold Blood, and on local TV in Miami and Milwaukee. He has also written stories on the case that have appeared in periodical print in The Miami Herald, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, and Miami Daily Business Review.
In addition, Art has presented on television other crime stories he has investigated at length, including on the shows Snapped; City Confidential; Prison Diaries, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, and Hard Copy.
For the Adam Walsh case, he has appeared on television many times: ABC Primetime; Anderson Cooper 360; Nancy Grace; Ashleigh Banfield; The Lineup; Inside Edition; Catherine Crier; Cold Blood, and on local TV in Miami and Milwaukee. He has also written stories on the case that have appeared in periodical print in The Miami Herald, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, and Miami Daily Business Review.
In addition, Art has presented on television other crime stories he has investigated at length, including on the shows Snapped; City Confidential; Prison Diaries, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, and Hard Copy.
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September 30, 2022
I couldn't get past the first chapter. It makes no sense. Adam Walsh is secretly alive, and there's a giant conspiracy to keep it that way and his heartbroken parents just went along with the police to......not cause a scene and embarrass the police department and thus stay away from their missing child?
And if the head found didn't belong to Adam, then what exactly is the connection with Dahmer's MO?That Dahmer was part of some early QAnon worthy pedophile ring?
Do not waste your time with this book. It's an interesting theory, if it is true that Dahmer was in FL, which does seem to be the case.......but there were no foot notes, no photos of cited occurrences in the Kindle version. This very quickly goes into the weeds with the revelation of AW and the author believing AW but being unable to present any proof.
I should have figured out from the fact it was on Kindle Unlimited that is isn't worth the read.
Dahmer being involved in Walsh's disappearance does not seem impossible. Otis Toole has always seemed a far fetched perp for this. However this is not the book to read if you want to further explore that possibility.
And if the head found didn't belong to Adam, then what exactly is the connection with Dahmer's MO?That Dahmer was part of some early QAnon worthy pedophile ring?
Do not waste your time with this book. It's an interesting theory, if it is true that Dahmer was in FL, which does seem to be the case.......but there were no foot notes, no photos of cited occurrences in the Kindle version. This very quickly goes into the weeds with the revelation of AW and the author believing AW but being unable to present any proof.
I should have figured out from the fact it was on Kindle Unlimited that is isn't worth the read.
Dahmer being involved in Walsh's disappearance does not seem impossible. Otis Toole has always seemed a far fetched perp for this. However this is not the book to read if you want to further explore that possibility.
February 2, 2020
I think Dahmer did it.
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