Chapter 34
America’s Most Wanted
It’s 1972 and Edwards publishes his murderous rampage called, “Metamorphosis of a Criminal.” Nobody figures out the puzzle so you put a new one on the internet 30 years later called Black Dahlia Solution. Nobody figures that out either. So what do you do next?
The ruse continues. Nobody has put all the clues together. You still don’t want to get caught; you just want everyone to know what really happened and how clever you are. You want recognition and you will seek it until you die and into your afterlife.
Neal asked, “So what would you try next? If I had become computer literate and I typed in Zodiac killer, it would take me to the best source that still exists today—Tom Voigt’s Zodiackiller.com. His site went up in 1998.”
“Exactly!” exclaimed Cameron. “Tom Voigt hooked up with America’s Most Wanted Host, John Walsh, in 1998. They were going to team up and catch the Zodiac. Are you familiar with John Walsh?”
“Somewhat; fill me in.”
Adam Walsh, age 6 and John Walsh, America’s Most Wanted
Adam Walsh, John’s son, disappeared from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida on the afternoon of July 27th, 1981. He was 6 years old. His mother had left him in the video aisle to watch some older boys play a game while she went to the next aisle over. There was talk of a suspicious security guard that made the boys leave. This murder occurred weeks after the last Atlanta Child Killing. Edwards targeted Hollywood, Florida, a wealthy white community, the complete opposite of Atlanta. On August 10th, 1981, Adam’s head was found floating in a canal of water 150 miles north of Hollywood. He had been beheaded and the rest of his remains denied to his grieving parents. The find occurred while the Walshs were on Good Morning America begging desperately for the release of their son. They were notified during the show that the head was their son’s.
John Walsh spent the last 32 years trying to figure out who killed his child. In 2008, Hollywood, Florida, police announced that Ottis Toole, a confessed killer, was responsible for Adam’s death.
Ottis Toole and Henry Lucas were captured in 1983 after a nationwide crime spree. They sat in jail between 1983 and 1986, confessing to hundreds of murders they couldn’t have possibly done. They were treated like royalty by police as they spent three years confessing to agents from Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania, about murders they supposedly had done. The media labeled them the “Worst Serial Killers Ever.” There was one problem. On many of the murders they confessed to, they couldn’t have done them. Toole confessed to killing Adam Walsh-and then recanted. Police from around the country spent three years interviewing Toole and Lucas, and in the end, the Texas Attorney General issued a report stating the entire thing appeared to be a hoax. http://docs.vicfeazell.com/pdf/LucasReport%5ePart01.pdf
Lucas and Toole listed hundreds of murders they had done, and they knew the details. The investigation of Lucas and Toole was headed by officers from Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida.
Toole was being held in Texas in 1983, Lucas was being held in Florida, and Edwards was being held in Pennsylvania—all at the same time. Edwards was working a deal with Pennsylvania authorities to get out of prison early. He had been convicted of burglary and arson in 1982 after being arrested in Atlanta, and was supposed to serve 12 years. He got out in 1986—the same year the Lucas report came out labeling them a hoax.
Lucas, Toole and Edwards were all in prison at the same time, and all three men were informing to police on murder. Edwards was informing to Pennsylvania agents on murders he had actually committed –but was pinning on others. He admitted this in the 2011 phone call to Cameron.
John Walsh has spent the last 30 years blaming Ottis Toole for Adam’s death and has done so repeatedly. Toole died, September, 1996, three months before Edwards killed JonBenet Ramsey.
In December of 2008, John Walsh went on TV with Hollywood, Florida, police and publicly blamed Ottis Toole for his son’s death. After this, Edwards went online and admitted to being the killer of Adam. He did it 5 days after Wisconsin police questioned him in a 1980 lover’s lane killing that would be his demise.
Using the screen name BABABIJAN, Edwards posted his admission to sending John Walsh the 1991 Zodiac/Scorpio letters John had kept secret for 15 years. He posted under the website Crime and Punishment. He posted it twice to make sure it would be understood and he did it on his 76th birthday.
June 14, 2009 at 10:04 pm
(11) Bababijan says:
It was very convenient for John Walsh to go along with the official decision to close the unsolved case of the kidnapping and murder of his son, Adam, because some police officials in Florida were convinced that they would be far better off to pin such a horrible crime on a dead con man, Ottis Toole, instead of pursuing the diabolical force behind the kidnappings and murders of so many children in America regardless of their colors.
Let us not forget the Scorpion’s warning for John Walsh that he was his worst nightmare. Why? Did Zodiac change his pen name back in 1990 to Scorpion to cryptically claim responsibility for Adam’s demise? Why did John Walsh remain mum for so many years before partially releasing the Scorpion files for the public? If not for the police, then let us hope that this info can be used as a head start by John Walsh if he really wants to find out the truth about the death of his son. He owes him that more than any other person in America.
In my opinion, Zodiac Network must be listed on the top of John Walsh’s America’s Most Wanted list for the whole world to see. Anything less will be unacceptable.
(Posted on Crime and Justice, June 14th, 2009)
Edwards posted his confession to killing Adam and being the Zodiac killer on his 76th birthday, knowing he was about to be arrested for his first murder and the unraveling would begin.
“John, do you realize what you’ve uncovered?”
“I do now!!! But it gets even bigger. John Walsh and Tom Voigt of Zodiackiller.com partnered up in 1998 to catch the Zodiac killer. They did a big production about it and Ed followed the entire thing on line, blogging against the entire community. John Walsh had received a Zodiac killer letter in 1991 and kept it secret until 2006. He didn’t even tell Tom Voigt about it in 1998. The FBI convinced him not to go public for fear it would cause terror. Here it is.”
“Neal, did you notice the signature on the letter?”
“Now look at the signature on the letter Ed sent you, giving us permission to write his story.”
Neal told John, “Some of Ed’s ciphers in the Zodiac case were based on the Greek alphabet, which has 24 characters, starting with the Alpha-and ending at the Omega. Ed used the Greek Alpha and Omega in the Zodiac Bomb Cipher and when I solved it, you had to put the Alpha symbol at the beginning and the Omega symbol at the end.”
Zodiac Killer Bomb Cipher
“The Greek Alpha and Omega symbol is this: Aα Ωω
“The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the A and the W, There is even a clear A and W within the puzzle. John, Ed killed Adam and has been taunting us with the solution since he did it. Adam Walsh was the beginning and the end. This is overwhelming. How many more murders did Ed do?!!!”
“Hundreds, Neal. Hundreds,” Cameron sorrowfully said.
On July 30th, 2009, about 6 weeks after his confession to killing Adam Walsh, Edwards was arrested for the August 9th, 1980 lover’s lane murder of Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew in Jefferson, Wisconsin. The unraveling of what he had done was just beginning, and Edwards had put every one of his murders out on the internet to be put together as a puzzle. Edwards had killed nonstop from 1945 until his death in 2011. He continues to use the justice system in his afterlife to kill.
“Neal, this is gonna take years to unravel!”
“We don’t have years, John. Neither do hundreds of victims from the last 50 years. Give me the rest that you found after your visit with Kay.”
“It’s ugly, Neal. He committed some horrific murders and setups all over the country between 2001 and 2009, while he was blogging on Zodiackiller.com. Here’s the top 7 in summary order. He set up 8 in the last 10 years of his life and they’re all still serving time.”