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Before Adam Walsh, there have been no encounters on milk cartons, no Amber Notifications, no National Middle for Missing and Exploited Children, no federal databases of offences against children, no pedophile registry. His 1981 abduction and murder, unsolved for over 25 % of a century, forever evolved America. One sunny July morning in 1981, Revé Walsh and her six-year-old child, Adam, stopped by the local Sears to get some new lamps. Enchanted by the gaming at the store's entry, Adam begged Revé to let him try it out while she shopped. When she came back a few momemts later, Adam was absent. The great shock of Adam's murder, and of the inability of the police and the FBI to find his killer, radically changed American innocence and our ideas about youth. Gone forever were the times when parents would allow their kids out of our home with the everyday instruction "Be home by deep!" Revé and John Walsh, who go on to create America's Most Wanted, became advocates for the transformation of laws enforcement's respond to and handling of such instances. Prompted by the Walshes' activism, Congress passed the Missing Children Act in 1982, and the National Middle for Missing and Exploited Children was founded in 1984. While our lives have been significantly changed by Adam Walsh's circumstance, few of us know the whole report: how, after more than 27 years of relentless investigation, decorated Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews finally identified Adam's killer. Getting Adam Home is the definitive account of this horrifying crime.
