The Unsolved “Murder” of Adam Walsh: Part Four

Who killed Adam Walsh (and is he really dead?) The search for the truth behind the crime that launched “America’s Most Wanted”

A review in five parts of a new two-book series, The Unsolved “Murder” of Adam Walsh by Arthur Jay Harris

Part 1: In 1981, remains of a child were identified as Adam Walsh, but, incredibly, essential identification documents are missing from all the official files, and some of them apparently were never even created. Without them, prosecutors never could have charged anyone with the murder of Adam Walsh—and although police in 2008 closed the case, they never did.

Part 2: The child found two weeks after Adam disappeared, and identified as him, had a just-erupted top right front tooth, newly-released public record pictures and descriptions show. Adam, in his last-seen-alive description, also had a just-erupted top front tooth, but it was on his left side. Was the found child hastily misidentified as Adam?

In Part 3, All Things Crime Blog showed that although in 2008 Hollywood Police blamed Ottis Toole for killing Adam Walsh, the same police department had dismissed Toole as a suspect 24 years earlier, after months of intense investigation. Asked in 2008 whether police had any new evidence against Toole, the chief said no.

PART FOUR: WAS JEFFREY DAHMER THE ABDUCTOR OF ADAM WALSH?

Police could never specifically establish that Ottis Toole had ever been in South Florida, much less Hollywood, much less on July 27, 1981, the day Adam Walsh disappeared from the Hollywood Mall. But another intriguing suspect in their file was clearly in the area at that time.

Hollywood is in the south part of BrowardCounty, and Miami-Dade is the next county south of Broward. A police report dated July 7, 1981, confirms what the suspect himself had later conceded, that he had lived in the Miami area:

Yes, the information in this Dade County (Miami) police report, dated July 7, 1981, was attributed to Mr. Jeffrey Dahmer. Adam disappeared on July 27.

During the summer of 1981, Jeffrey Dahmer was working at a sub sandwich shop on Collins Avenue in what is now the city of Sunny Isles Beach, in northern Miami-DadeCounty, about 20 minutes by vehicle from Hollywood Mall. A police report reveals that in July Dahmer informed his boss that he had discovered a dead body in the alley behind the store. The deceased was a homeless man who’d used the electric meter room, just steps away, as a cozy, cool, enclosed place to sleep. The police report documents that Dahmer had talked to him and knew his name.

After this incident, Dahmer’s boss realized that Jeffrey then was homeless, too, and helped him get a weekly rental apartment. By 1981, although neither the boss nor anyone else knew it at the time, Dahmer had already killed a man in Ohio, three years earlier. That was the first of his 17 acknowledged murders. Could there have been more that he didn’t admit? For starters, could Dahmer have killed the homeless man, possibly so he could sleep in his meter room?

Hollywood Police never did uncover the July 7 police report. Rather, in 2007, Harris unearthed it because he found the sub shop boss, who although he didn’t have the report, knew about it. Harris was then working with producers from the ABC News show Primetime, and they got permission to enter the meter room. Inside, in a corner, they observed about a hundred droplet stains rising up the wall. A step away, leaning against the wall, was an old lumberman’s axe and a sledgehammer. A crime scene expert hired by ABC tested the stains and confirmed they were blood, and thought that the rising droplets indicated a downward chopping motion onto a body, forcing the drops up the wall.

The homeless man had no significant external injuries, and an autopsy determined that he’d died of alcoholism, although the Miami-DadeCountyM.E.’s later lab work seemed to dispute that. But the Adam Walsh story was about a severed head, even if it was never actually Adam Walsh’s.

When they arrested Dahmer in Milwaukee in 1991, the police discovered eleven severed heads in his apartment, some in his refrigerator. The Milwaukee Police quickly learned, apparently from his father, that Jeffrey had lived in South Florida during 1981. As Dahmer himself later admitted to Hollywood Police, he’d been there that year from March to September, encompassing the period when Adam disappeared.

But Dahmer denied anything to do with Adam Walsh. He also said he was coming clean about everything he’d done, and because he’d appeared cooperative and confessed to some murders for which there was no evidence in his apartment, Milwaukee Police believed him. So did Hollywood Police.

However, Dahmer never told police in 1991, or thereafter, what he’d told police in Miami in 1981—that he’d discovered a dead body in an alleyway. Harris asks, how could anyone forget something like that?

In 1992, Hollywood Police interviewed Dahmer about his time in South Florida. Although Dahmer seemed forthright about certain things during the interrogation, he seemed coy at other times. Asked to spell the name of the sub shop manager who hired him, Dahmer got it just wrong enough to make him impossible to locate. Through another source familiar with the store, Harris got the correct spelling of the manager’s name, then located him. Hollywood Police apparently had never even looked for him. Had he told Hollywood about the dead man, might they have reconsidered Dahmer’s veracity?

An even more stunning omission was Billy Capshaw, Dahmer’s army roommate for 13 months.

Dahmer had joined the U.S. Army around the beginning of 1979; then, in the summer, he was assigned to Baumholder, West Germany. With his mother’s written permission, Capshaw, who’d just turned 17, entered the army in October 1979, and in February 1980 was also sent to Baumholder. Capshaw was from a small city in Arkansas and had never traveled before entering the service. Dahmer, meanwhile, was two years older, bigger and stronger, much more sophisticated, and had already begun his serial killing career in 1978.

Unlike the other known surviving victims of Dahmer, Capshaw didn’t escape him but rather outlasted him when, in March 1981, the army discharged Dahmer early, and abruptly, for alcoholism. (Rather than go home to Ohio to face the music with his father, Dahmer told police he’d flown to Miami.) Being with Dahmer was constantly terrifying for Capshaw, and he left the army with debilitating Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. An Internet website, Surviving Jeffrey Dahmer, written by Capshaw’s psychiatrist who treated him intensely and successfully for years, documented that at length. In addition, in 2013, Capshaw was interviewed in a documentary film, Justice Denied.

Their Nazi-era barracks room could be locked from the inside, and from the moment Dahmer took away Capshaw’s key, he was imprisoned. The room was too high off the ground to jump out the window without injury (Capshaw tried that once) and no one else in the barracks would come to his assistance, or for that matter, defend him or help him get another room assignment.

Behind the closed door, the intelligent, studied, and well-spoken Dahmer would suddenly become an erratic monster, would change from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde. Dahmer’s drinking, which was usually to excess, would trigger the transformation. The Dahmer who police and the public saw after his arrest, including in two sit-down television interviews, was only his Jekyll side, according to Capshaw.

Dahmer would drug Capshaw’s drink, then with his resistance diminished, would rape him, cut him with knives or an ice pick, or hit him with a metal pipe. For that year they were together, it was rare for Capshaw not to be in a cast for a broken bone. More than 30 years later, Capshaw still has chronic pain and marks all over his neck and body.

Once, he awoke, groggy, to find Dahmer surgically removing part of his prostate. Unlike Ottis Toole, Dahmer certainly knew how to use a scalpel. In his book about raising his son, Jeffrey’s father Lionel, a Ph.D. chemist, wrote that he and Jeffrey (as a child) had dissected roadkill. The army unit at Baumholder that Dahmer and Capshaw were assigned to trained medics, and Harris found an army nurse who’d taught a class that Dahmer attended that covered the cursory surgical use of scalpels. (After Dahmer’s arrest, the nurse herself was traumatized by the thought that she’d inadvertently given instruction to a serial killer, although she also said that Dahmer was bored by the class.)

Some weekends, Dahmer would take leave off post, leaving Capshaw locked inside the room. While Jeff was gone, Capshaw would search for food. Dahmer kept a dorm-sized refrigerator, but it was locked, and Capshaw never once got to see inside it. He was able to pry open Dahmer’s locker, where he’d find buck knives stained with blood and mucus, which Capshaw would dispose of out the window although they were always replaced. At least twice, when Jeff returned to the room, his clothes were soaked through with blood. Although Capshaw wasn’t thinking of it at the time, all that could have been evidence of murder. While Dahmer was stationed in Baumholder, within a roughly 50-mile radius of the post, there were about a dozen mutilation murders. While in custody in Milwaukee, custody, German polizei questioned Dahmer about the German murders. He denied taking any part in them.

Shortly after Dahmer was arrested and in the news, two separate witnesses contacted Hollywood Police to say that they’d seen him at the mall at the time when Adam was last seen. Both said they’d told that to police within a few days of the incident—without, of course, a name attached. Police couldn’t find earlier statements from either of the witnesses.

One witness, Willis Morgan, was working overnight as a pressman at The Miami Herald when he saw a just-printed first edition containing the breaking story, buried deep inside the paper, about Dahmer’s arrest, which included his only inch-high mug shot. “That thumbnail is the spitting image,” Morgan told Harris when he showed him a library microfilm copy of it. “That is him. That’s the face.”

Morgan described the man who’d encountered him as drunk and disheveled. He’d approached Morgan inside a mall store and tried to make small talk, as if at a club or bar: “Hi there, nice day, isn’t it?” When Morgan wouldn’t respond, the man moved closer and repeated it at the same volume.

“I’m looking at his eyes, his face. We made eye contact—we locked. It was frightening,” Morgan said. “He had a look on him, like the Devil was in him.” Morgan, who was then 34 but limited in his mobility by an artificial leg, sensed that the man might have had a knife and wanted to drag him out of the mall through a nearby exit. After rebuffing him by trying to look away, Morgan said, the man gave up and left, frustrated. Thinking that he would approach someone else, who would then need help, Morgan followed him at a safe distance through the mall and into Sears’ toy department before the man doubled back, which convinced Morgan he needed to leave, a decision he later regretted. The toy department is where Adam’s mother said she left him for a few minutes just prior to his abduction.

The Sunshine Subs manager Harris spoke to mentioned that Dahmer would sometimes show up for work drunk and dirty, and then he’d send him away. He also remembered a time when he reprimanded Dahmer, who responded by staring at him. “I saw hell in his eyes, once,” the manager said. Capshaw described the same look: “An expression like he just wasn’t there. I’ve never seen it on anyone else’s face. In a millimeter of a second, he turned from good to bad—and then he’d attack. If you’ve ever seen that—I promise you, you will never forget that eye contact.”

The other witness, Bill Bowen, said that when he first saw Dahmer’s photo in the newspaper, “It hit me like a baseball bat” that he was the man he’d seen in the Hollywood Mall parking lot outside Sears. Bowen said he was about to enter the store when he saw a man pick up a small child he thought was Adam and throw him into a blue van parked in the fire lane outside of the store entrance. He lifted the child “by one arm, kicking and screaming, and slung him into the vehicle, like he was a sack of potatoes,” Bowen told Harris. “I heard the little boy saying, I don’t want to go. I’m not going.” The van then peeled off. Bowen said he was too far away to do anything but be shocked by what he saw.

“The guy was nuts, out of his mind, he was raging. He turned around for just a brief moment. I was scared to death. How could a father treat his child like this?” Bowen said.

A blue van as a getaway vehicle was Hollywood Police’s first big lead in the case, given to them back while they were still searching for Adam. Through the South Florida media, police had asked to be contacted whenever anyone spotted a blue van, and requested the witness write down its license plate number so they could run a trace on it. Other police agencies in the state were also put on the lookout. But Hollywood Police soon determined that its initial witness, a 10-year-old, had seen the incident he’d reported too late for it to be Adam. They discredited the lead and stopped checking out blue van reports.

Presented with the two new witnesses, Hollywood quickly dismissed them both.

Harris learned that at the sub shop where Dahmer had worked, one of its delivery vehicles was a blue van. Its description, a plain dark blue work van, matched what Bowen said, if a little less precisely than what the 10-year-old had said in 1981. Harris learned that the shop also delivered pizza to the nearby Sunny Isles beach hotels, and it shared the vehicle with its sister store a dozen blocks away, a pizza restaurant that also did deliveries. He also learned that employees would just take the van; they weren’t required to sign for it or ask for permission. Often it was for their personal use, which was okay with the stores’ owner. The van would disappear for hours or days, eight former employees and friends of the stores told Harris.

Dahmer had told the Hollywood Police detective who’d interviewed him that while he lived in Florida he didn’t have money to own a vehicle, and to get anywhere he took buses.

In Florida, state statutes require that police agencies under state jurisdiction make their files available to the public upon demand. The only exceptions are cases under active investigation “with a reasonable, good faith anticipation of securing an arrest or prosecution in the foreseeable future.” In 1994, after Hollywood Police denied a reporter access to the Adam Walsh case file, then 13 years old, his newspaper asked a state court judge in BrowardCounty to rule that the case did not fit the guideline for denial. Hollywood Police answered that the investigation was still active, and assigned a new, cold case detective to it. As a compromise, the judge set a February 1996 deadline for police to make an arrest or prosecutors to bring the case to a grand jury. When it wasn’t met, he ruled that the department had to open its files, to that date.

The Dahmer investigation was included in what was released in 1996. There was also a report of a witness, William Mistler, who said he’d seen Toole with Adam in the mall parking lot. Then, in 1997, John Walsh wrote in his book Tears of Rage that an elderly woman, Mary Hagan, said she’d seen Toole and Adam inside Sears. Walsh seemed to trust both witnesses. (By the time Hagan’s name was publicly identified, in 2008, she had already died.)

An investigator for the Broward State Attorney’s Office, Phil Mundy, interviewed Hagan and Mistler, and believed only Hagan. For one thing, Mistler told police that the parking lot incident had happened that day between 10-11 A.M.; Mrs. Walsh hadn’t arrived with Adam at the mall until after 12 Noon. Furthermore, Mistler described Toole as a “grandfather-type guy” and an “old man.” At the time, Toole was 34. Mistler also described Toole as 70 pounds lighter than he was at the time. Nor did Mistler report to police in 1981 what he saw; he’d waited until 1991.

Hagan, however, Mundy believed was the long-lost missing witness in the case. Because he’d previously met Toole, he recognized Hagan’s description of his “weird grin,” including a 45-degree tilt of his head, as well as his overwhelming body odor.

Although Mundy thought he had the case solved, he couldn’t convince his boss at the state attorney’s office, or the lead cold case Hollywood detective. Hagan did have some problems as a witness: first, she hadn’t come forward right after Adam disappeared. Also, she admitted she’d since seen pictures (and possibly video) of Toole in the context of him being a suspect in the case. A defense attorney could argue that her recollection of Toole’s tilted grin might have come from seeing it broadcast—there was a much-replayed news interview of Toole doing precisely that. In her mind, those images might have overridden whomever she saw inside Sears.

Witnesses at the mall seemed to be at a premium until 2008, when Hollywood Police officially closed the case and released the remainder of its file. In there, Harris found five more witnesses who had said they also had been at the mall when Adam had vanished. All had seen Adam with or near a suspicious man inside or just outside of Sears. Two had also seen a plain blue van parked in the fire lane in front of Sears’ west entrance, the same place where Bowen and the 10-year-old told police they’d seen it.

Two of the five had called Hollywood Police, which had interviewed them. One had written a letter to America’s Most Wanted, which the show forwarded to Hollywood; Phil Mundy interviewed him. The other two had called the tip line on the show after it aired a segment about the case in 1996, using material that police had just released. Although the show forwarded the tips to Hollywood Police, no one from law enforcement ever contacted them.

Of the three who were contacted, none identified Toole as anyone they’d seen that day, and police (and Mundy) had disregarded their statements.

Harris found all five and interviewed them individually. He first showed them photos of Toole; each said that was not the man they had seen. Then he showed them photos of Dahmer.

While entering Sears, Phillip Lohr said he saw a man pass him, leaving, carrying a child he was certain was Adam. He recalled that the child said, “You’re not my daddy,” and the man answered, “I’m taking you to your daddy.” It stopped Lohr in his tracks but by the time he realized he maybe should have reacted, it was too late—and Lohr later regretted his indecision.

When Harris showed Lohr photos of Dahmer, he responded, “He has the eyes.” He was looking for a man who he remembered wore aviator glasses that in the sun would work as sunglasses. In fact there was a family photo of Dahmer in which he was wearing similar glasses. “Oh my God. That’s getting real close. And he’s wearing sunglasses indoors.”

Lohr said his encounter was extremely brief, and he wouldn’t say for certain that it was Dahmer whom he’d seen, but he did say “I find it amazing how similar (that picture) is to the man I saw… Seeing that picture there starts making it real creepy.”

Vernon Jones, who was 9 in 1981, told Phil Mundy that he was playing a video baseball game in Sears with Adam. The younger of the two kids, Adam had just won the game, beating him with a walk-off grand slam, which Jones blamed in part to a distraction: a man had tried to get their attention. A bit later, Jones saw the same man leave with Adam, possibly holding his right hand.

Jones knew who Dahmer was but wasn’t familiar with his face. Sitting together in front of a computer, Harris showed him Dahmer’s 1991 Milwaukee Police mug shot. “Wow,” Jones reacted. Then Harris played him MSNBC’s 1994 prison interview with Dahmer and watched Jones, a black belt karate instructor, tear up as his voice broke. “Looking at him, hearing his voice is bothering me. I feel my eye twitching. I feel my heart rate elevating. Looking at him right now, putting the headphone on and hearing his voice is literally bothering me.”

Janice Santamassino said she had just entered Sears with her two young children that day when her 4-year-old girl wanted to play the videogames. Adam, a little older, showed her how to handle the controls. They played, then finally, Santamassino was able to wrest her daughter away from the game so they could start their shopping. Next, in the adjacent toy department, they saw a “weird, scary-looking, scuzzy” man studying a box containing a toy.

Harris showed her video of Dahmer entering a Milwaukee courtroom in 1991. “That’s his profile!” she exclaimed. “His hair. That’s what I saw, when I was looking down. I can’t believe it, this is like the profile.” Looking at Dahmer’s 1991 mug shot, she said, “That’s it! His hair was a little bit messier. I’m getting goose bumps. I never thought I would get that emotional. But that is him. That looks like him. I can’t believe it!”

Looking at Dahmer’s forward stare in the mug shot, she said, “That’s what I saw, at me.”

Jennie Warren said she was in Sears with three of her grandchildren and watched Mrs. Walsh leave Adam at the video games. Waiting to play the games, Adam stood behind two other kids, plus, she said, there was a man “just standing there watching” right beside Adam. Passing the toy department, Warren’s 8-year-old wanted to look at dolls, and Warren let her stay there while she took the other children to another department. A short time later, nervous about her decision, Warren returned to the toy department and found her 8-year-old; Warren didn’t notice whether the man was there or not. A little later still, she heard a store intercom announcement that a child was missing.

Warren said she’d gotten a good look at the man, and as a lifelong hairdresser, noticed a number of things about him. A Hollywood detective had shown her a photo lineup that included Toole, and she hadn’t identified him as the man she’d seen. But when Harris met her, her first words were that the man who police had just closed the case on was the wrong guy. It was the other guy—Jeffrey Dahmer.

In fact, her family said, she’d told them that for quite some time. Shown a picture of Dahmer on the cover of a book, she said, “That’s the man I saw. All these pictures, he has his hair below his ears. I’m a beautician, and I notice all these things.” Harris also showed her a photo of Toole. “That’s not him. He’s ugly. This Dahmer was not ugly.”

On the day that Adam disappeared as well as the day before, Mia Cockerham, now Taylor, then 10 years old, and her 9-year-old brother Joel saw a strange man at the Hollywood Mall Sears, she said. On July 26, in the toy department, Joel stopped to look at a ball-in-the-hole game and the man “stepped out in front of us,” inappropriately close, and asked if he knew how to play it. “It was a silly question,” Taylor told Harris. “I had a weird feeling about this guy. He was creepy.” She smelled stale beer on his breath, and told Joel, Come on, let’s leave.

On July 27, in the mall again, Taylor said that Joel played a video game with a little boy she thought was Adam. Outside Sears, she saw the boy again; he was talking to the man who’d approached Joel the previous day. The man was wearing the same clothes as he had before. “He was really close to the kid, leaning over and talking to him. He leaned down, took his hand—by his fingertips, as he is talking to him.” The little boy looked confused, and she didn’t hear him say anything.

When Harris showed her an Internet page of Dahmer photos, she quickly said, “He’s got the mouth,” then, “there’s the longer hair.” Then she said, “I found one that I’m absolutely positive that was the person.” It was Dahmer’s August 1982 Milwaukee County mug shot. “That’s the forehead, with the stern look, the lines in his forehead, when he was talking to my brother. He gives the look of death to someone because you’re mad at him.”

Then she watched a YouTube of the interview Dahmer had given the show Inside Edition. “That’s how the guy sounded, through the nose. That’s the tone I remember. I’m pretty sure that’s the voice I heard.”

After Adam’s disappearance came a report of an attempted abduction of a 10-year-old at another Sears store, this one in a suburb of West Palm Beach, exactly two weeks earlier. Hollywood Police had investigated it as a possible serial crime but dismissed the connection. With the assistance of others, Harris found the man who as a child had been the attempted victim, Terry Keaton.

Keaton said he was in the sporting goods department, looking at fishing rods, when a man approached him within arm’s distance, uncomfortably close. He wouldn’t say anything, even when Keaton tried to break the ice. “That’s what really freaked me out,” he said.

Sensing that he was in trouble, “I started running. He started running. He’s running right at me, rolling up his sleeves,” Keaton said. In the nearly-empty store that Monday afternoon, Keaton ran to the first people he saw: a woman and her child. “One hundred percent my instincts saved my life that day.”

Half an hour later, with his mother, Ginger (now Pantel), Terry saw the man a second time. Pantel remembered his intimidating stare. Years later, as she recalled, she was watching TV with Terry when he jumped up from the couch. “That’s the guy that was trying to grab me in the mall, mom! Oh, my God, mom. I’ll never forget the face. That’s the guy, that’s the guy!”

The story on TV was about Jeffrey Dahmer being murdered in prison.

The mother and child who Terry had run to in Sears had also seen the man, and Hollywood Police had asked them to assist a police artist in drawing him.

Left, the composite drawing of the man who tried to abduct Terry Keaton, two weeks before Adam’s disappearance in 1981. Hollywood Police Department. Right, Dahmer’s 1982 mug shot. Milwaukee Police Department

Dahmer’s youngest admitted murder victim was 13, and many have argued that he had no record of attraction to children as young as Adam, who was only 6. In denying the crime, Dahmer argued that himself. But Dahmer had been arrested in Milwaukee in 1982 for masturbating in front of two boys, one of whom was 11, and Billy Capshaw said that in 1980 the military police in Baumholder had caught him masturbating in a public park in front of children younger than that on two occasions.

The Miami Herald, March 28, 2010. “Maybe it was Ottis Toole, as police say. But more signs seem to point to Jeffrey Dahmer.”

NEXT: The dramatic, incredible conclusion to The Unsolved “Murder” of Adam Walsh: True crime author Arthur Jay Harris puts to the test the man who contacted him to say that he was Adam Walsh and that his kidnapper was Jeffrey Dahmer. Could he identify very specific things about Dahmer that only one of his torture victims would know, and could he reveal some of Adam Walsh’s personal experiences that only Adam himself would know?

SERIES OVERVIEW:

Part 3: With the assent and praise of John Walsh, in 2008 Hollywood Police “exceptionally closed” the then-27-year-old Adam Walsh case, blaming his murder on Ottis Toole, who had since died. But by 1984 police had concluded they had no evidence of Toole’s involvement, and in 2008, the police chief admitted there was no new evidence.

Part 4: Police documents recently released into public record show that at the mall where Adam was last seen, seven separate witnesses saw a man with or close by Adam; all of them identify the man as Jeffrey Dahmer. A Miami police report, dated the same month that Adam disappeared, shows that Dahmer had a job about 20 minutes away from that mall.

Part 5: Is Adam Walsh alive? A man contacted Harris to say that he is Adam Walsh. In discussions with Adam’s last, best friend, the man recalled lengthy specifics of their close friendship, information not available on the Internet or elsewhere. To prove he is Adam, he wants a DNA comparison with Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, but they and the police have not responded.

Please click here to view Parts One, Two and Three of Mr. Harris’s compelling Adam Walsh series:

The Unsolved “Murder” of Adam Walsh: Part One

The Unsolved “Murder” of Adam Walsh: Part Two

The Unsolved “Murder” of Adam Walsh: Part Three

Like a private detective (which he isn’t), in his stories, South Florida true crime author Arthur Jay Harris pursues not the question “Why?” but rather, “Are you sure?” Crime detection and crime stories are all about constructing narratives, but there are almost always loose ends that just don’t fit. Once the flaws in a narrative are discovered, the challenge for the narrative-constructor and the critic is whether to ignore them because they may mean nothing or follow them to what might just be a conclusion that is a totally unexpected reversal. Given his nature, Harris is a pursuer into rabbit holes. His stories are about both the crimes themselves and his ability to stay the course atop the roller coaster ride of surprises in an unflinching Sherlockian effort to reach the elusive truth. There are times he’s upended in mid-flight, which is always a shock, but when he picks up the right trail, it soon becomes obvious and the results can be astounding.

Harris’s other books, Speed Kills, Flowers for Mrs. Luskin, and Until Proven Innocent, also follow investigative paths not yet taken. In addition to appearing in print, Harris has made guest television appearances on ABC Primetime; Anderson Cooper 360; Nancy Grace; Ashleigh Banfield; The Lineup; Inside Edition; Catherine Crier; Snapped; City Confidential; Cold Blood; and Prison Diaries.

Arthur Jay Harris
True Crime Author