Someone once said, "A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."
But then, cats do have nine lives as seemingly does the recently "solved" Adam Walsh cold case.
Incredulous bloggers nationwide are all over the closed investigation. And the more questions that are asked, the more possible answers pop up. Via access of archived information available through the Internet and the 20/20 vision known as hindsight, weird puzzle pieces seemingly shift into place.
As reported on Bob Norman's blog "The Daily Pulp", eyewitnesses place Jeffrey Dahmer at the scene. (Read "Dahmer Did It" here).
"Other than speak with Dahmer, Hollywood police did little investigation into the matter. They never so much as tracked down Dahmer's employers at Miami Sub on Collins Avenue."
Miami Subs. Interesting connection, Miami Subs.
Remember this story?
Boulis, the founder of SunCruz Casinos and the Miami Subs restaurant chain, was killed the night of Feb. 6, 2001 in a gangland style slaying near Fort Lauderdale's Southeast 17th Street Causeway. (Police make arrests in Miami Subs murder/South Florida Business Journal, 9/27/2005).
What does that have to do with anything?
John Walsh was building a $26 million hotel on Paradise Island when Adam was kidnapped. (Larry King Live, July 15, 2003).
"...Mr. Walsh also complained that the press portrayed him, a marketing executive with clients in the Bahamas hotel industry, as someone ''with connections to the mob.'' New York Times, January 2, 2009).
Back to Miami Subs and the puzzle piece with the odd shape and color that never seems to fit anywhere.
(...)
"Boulis was murdered a year after financial difficulties forced him to sell his stake in SunCruz to Adam Kidan, a New York businessman, and Jack Abramoff, a Washington, D.C. lobbyist."
Interest peaked yet? Abramoff??? That's just an extra smack dab of deli sauce on the Italian salami. Read on.
Later in 2001, The Business Journal, other publications and broadcast stations reported SunCruz, under Kidan, had made payments for services to Moon Over Miami Beach, a company for which Ferrari was listed as registered agent by the Florida Department of State, and to Jennifer Moscatiello, the daughter of Anthony Moscatiello.
The payments, totaling $105,000 to Moon Over Miami Beach for security services and of $145,000 to Jennifer Moscatiello for catering, led to speculation about whether the money might be tied to the killing of Boulis.
Kidan's response then was: "If I was going to have Gus killed, do you think I am stupid enough to write out checks for a mob hit that could be traced back to me?"
Aug. 11, 2005, a federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale indicted Kidan and Abramoff on charges of fraud in obtaining loans they used to buy SunCruz.
Kidan and Abramoff have pleaded innocent to the charges."
Tuesday, Martin Jaffe, Kidan's attorney, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that Kidan had nothing to do with the Boulis murder."
Point.
John Walsh has this country's most elite law enforcement professionals at his fingertips.
With the puzzle not yet complete, why doesn't he insist the case be reopened?
Bringing us back to the original question.
What triggered the closing of the Adam Walsh case?
And this may be quite snide of me, but where exactly is crackerjack missing child advocate Nancy Grace on this one? With enough holes to make a swiss cheese sub, this case has her modus operandi all over it. But then, she would have to actually question her pal, John Walsh.
Again, I ask journalists--especially South Florida journalists--to access Lexis-Nexis and whatever other database at your fingertips and puzzle the Adam Walsh case out in the sunshine.
Break this story wide open.
Although my identified source indicated Miami Subs as the place of Dahmer's long ago employment, I have been informed by a reputable source that the sub shop has been incorrectly identified in the citation.
Dahmer worked at Sunshine Subs, not Miami Subs.
So there goes another theory shot to hell.
