Happy New Year, Froggers!
As I'm determined to get out from behind this keyboard to enjoy this first day of New Year 2009, I won't elaborate too much on the promised connection between convicted killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the Adam Walsh case, but I'll definitely point you in the right direction.
While googling info for yesterday's post, I came across the long-forgotten name of the only eyewitness purported to have come face-to-face with Dahmer that long ago day in the Searstown mall.
Willis Morgan.
Morgan had recently posted comments to an unbelieving group of bloggers regarding his concerns over the solving of the Walsh case. The group--as so many who were born after the murder--had failed to do their homework regarding Morgan's connection with the case.
Bob Norman over at The Daily Pulp has not.
And he tells the tale well. Here's a snip to encourage your read of the full accounting here.
For more background, peruse the additional stories archived here.
By the way...what's it take to reopen a "solved" cold case?
Jeffrey Dahmer killed Adam Walsh.
That's right. The most infamous cannibal in American history murdered one of the most publicized child abduction victims of the past half-century, the 6-year-old son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh.Sounds crazy, right?
Well, I think it's true. And I know it deserves a full investigation by law enforcement.
But the Hollywood Police Department, which has basically botched the investigation from the get-go, is giving the idea short shrift, and John Walsh himself has tossed the theory out the window before examining it in any detail.
The truth is that local true crime writer Arthur Jay Harris has compiled an undeniably strong case that Milwaukee's notorious drunken cannibal — who was living in South Florida at the time of Adam's murder — was the culprit. Harris has dug up compelling new details, including information that Dahmer likely had access at the time to the type of vehicle — a blue van — believed to have been used in the abduction.
A December article Harris wrote for the Daily Business Review on findings that he spent more than four years gathering has gotten national attention in the past couple of weeks. But his arguments were met more with skepticism than true interest and were swiftly bumped out of the news by the NASA love triangle and the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
Scuttling the theory, however, would be a travesty.
