What did Ottis Toole do to Adam Walsh?

What did Ottis Toole do to Adam Walsh?

Toole eventually pulled over in a rural area and decapitated Walsh with a machete. He drove around with Walsh’s head for several days, forgot about it, and, after he rediscovered it, he tossed it into a nearby canal.

Did they ever find John Walsh’s son Adam?

His body was never found. In October 1983, career criminal Ottis Ellwood Toole, then an inmate at a Raiford, Florida, prison, confessed to Adam’s abduction and murder and also implicated serial killer Henry Lee Lucas in the crime.

What did Otis say he did to Adam?

Then, Ottis Toole went with authorities to a turnpike where he said Adam cried for his mother. Later, they stopped at a bridge where the Jacksonville resident said he hacked off the boy’s head.

Was Adam Walsh’s head buried?

“People don’t know this, but [police] kept Adam’s severed head in the morgue for 27 years, saying you can’t bury your child because it’s an open capital murder,” Walsh said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “We could never get Adam’s remains while the case was botched.”