Jacksonville PD turned him over to the Hollywood police. Toole confessed to the murder and recanted his confessions multiple times. He gave detailed accounts that could only be told by the killer, including details that had never been released by investigators. However, the lead Hollywood detective, Jack Hoffman, arrogant and inexperienced, remained skeptical. He had every piece of evidence, no matter how circumstantial, to convict Toole of this murder yet he never did. 25 years later, Sgt. Joe Matthews, a retiree from Miami PD, put a name and face to the killer of young Adam Walsh when he conducted an independent investigation. In 2008, the then chief of police of Hollywood PD would go on to make a statement that Ottis Toole could have been charged with the murder of Adam Walsh before his death in 2006 years ago due to the amount of circumstantial evidence
Jacksonville PD turned him over to the Hollywood police. Toole confessed to the murder and recanted his confessions multiple times. He gave detailed accounts that could only be told by the killer, including details that had never been released by investigators. However, the lead Hollywood detective, Jack Hoffman, arrogant and inexperienced, remained skeptical. He had every piece of evidence, no matter how circumstantial, to convict Toole of this murder yet he never did. 25 years later, Sgt. Joe Matthews, a retiree from Miami PD, put a name and face to the killer of young Adam Walsh when he conducted an independent investigation. In 2008, the then chief of police of Hollywood PD would go on to make a statement that Ottis Toole could have been charged with the murder of Adam Walsh before his death in 2006 years ago due to the amount of circumstantial evidence