Bringing Adam home : the abduction that changed America / Les Standiford with Detective Sergeant Joe Matthews.
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TextPublication details: New York : Ecco, [2011], ©2011.Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 291 p. : illustrated (chiefly colored), map ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 006198390X (hbk.)
- 9780061983900 (hbk.)
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 364.1523 S785 | Available | 33111006515742 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read. A triumph in every way."
--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
"The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh's....A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice."
--Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent
The abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh--son of John Walsh, host of the Fox TV series America's Most Wanted--in Hollywood, Florida, was a crime that went unsolved for a quarter of a century. Bringing Adam Home by author Les Standiford is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and mother's efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution.
Relates the full, twenty-seven-year story behind the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh, the six-year-old son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh, as well as the decades-long search for the boy's elusive killer.