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The Abduction That Changed America
HarperCollins
March 2011
On Sale: March 1, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 006198390X
EAN: 9780061983900
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no
Amber Alerts, no National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, no federal databases of crimes against children,
no pedophile registry. His 1981 abduction and
murder—unsolved for over a quarter of a century—forever
changed America. One sunny July morning in 1981, RevÉ Walsh and her
six-year-old son Adam stopped by the local Sears to pick up
some new lamps. Enchanted by a video game at the store's
entrance, Adam begged RevÉ to let him try it out while she
shopped. When she returned a few minutes later, Adam was gone. The shock of Adam's murder, and of the inability of the
police and the FBI to find his killer, radically altered
American innocence and our ideas about childhood. Gone
forever were the days when parents would allow their kids
out of the house with the casual instruction "Be home by dark!" RevÉ and John Walsh—who would go on to create America's Most
Wanted—became advocates for the transformation of law
enforcement's response to and handling of such cases.
Prompted by the Walshes' activism, Congress passed the
Missing Children Act in 1982, and the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children was founded in 1984. While our lives have been significantly altered by Adam
Walsh's case, few of us know the whole story—how, after more
than twenty-seven years of relentless investigation,
decorated Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews
finally identified Adam's killer. Bringing Adam Home is the definitive account of this
horrifying crime—which, like the Lindbergh kidnapping fifty
years earlier, captured public attention—and its aftermath,
a true story of tragedy, love, faith, and dedication. It
reveals the pain and tenacity of a family determined to find
justice, the failed police work that allowed a killer to
remain uncharged, and the determined efforts of one cop who
accomplished what an entire legal system could not. As
harrowing as In Cold Blood, yet ultimately uplifting,
Bringing Adam Home is the riveting story of a triumph of
justice and the enduring power of love.
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