[lumberjim]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/us/17adam.html?hp

MIAMI — The murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, which raised awareness about missing children and led to television shows like “America’s Most Wanted,” has been solved, authorities said Tuesday.

At a news conference, the police in Hollywood, Fla., announced that Adam was murdered by Ottis Elwood Toole, a drifter who confessed to the slaying and then recanted before dying in prison in 1996. .

the above does not really jive with this part of the linked article.....

In October 1983, Mr. Toole told the police that he had abducted Adam from the mall and drove for about an hour to an isolated dirt road where he decapitated him.

why is this case just being closed today? I must have missed some major detail.