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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8,2007
MURDER
Dahmer not murderer of 'Most Wanted' host's son
Still no clear suspect for the 1981 killing of Adam Walsh
BY MATT SEDENSKY ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI — The host of "Americas Most Wanted" said he's seen no evidence linking his son's unsolved kidnapping and slaying to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, despite a
recent report laying out a possible connection.
Theories of a Dahmer tie to the 1981 killing of John Walshs 6-year-old son Adam date back years but resurfaced with a report in the
"We investigated the Dahmer link and spoke with Dahmer. We don't believe he murdered Adam."
Harris says a review of the 7,000-page case file shows two men
Daily Business Review, a Miami publication.
Arthur Jay Harris, who wrote the Daily Business Review story in December, has written three true crime books — including an unpublished one on Adam's killing that he is trying to sell.
TONY RODE
"America's Most Wanted" issued a news release Tuesday saying its producers and investigators have long been aware of the rumors but that no credible information has emerged. Walsh believes another serial killer, Ottis Tootsie, killed his son.
TONY RODE
Captain
Hollywood Police Department
claimed to have seen a man who looked like Dahmer at the mall where Adam was abducted during a shopping trip with his mother One of the men said he saw the Dahmer look
alike carrying a struggling boy into a blue van.
Adam's head was found 100 miles away in a Vero Beach canal.
The witnesses told police they recognized Dahmer's photo after he was arrested in Wisconsin in 1992. Dahmer lived in South Florida at the time of Adams' slaying and reportedly had access to a blue van.
Prosecutors said they would re-examine past statements related to a possible Dahmer connection.
Toole, a drafter who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to several murders and claimed hundreds of others, told police he killed the boy with the help of a partner. But the alleged accomplice was in jail at the time and Toole was unable to correctly describe the child's hair or clothing.
case, did not immediately return a call late Wednesday afternoon. Capt. Tony Rode told the Miami Herald, "We investigated the Dahmer link and spoke with Dahmer. We don't believe he murdered Adam."
Authorities made a series of crucial errors, losing the bloodstained carpeting from Toole's car — preventing DNA testing — and the car itself. Still, Toole's niece told Walsh that her uncle gave her a prison deathbed confession to the murder in September 1996.
"I'm not way off on this," Harris said Wednesday. "This is something that needs to be investigated."
Walsh has said he believes the confession in part because investigators found clothing similar to Adams's at Tools'Jacksonville home.
The Hollywood Police Department, the lead agency on the
Dahmer was serving a series of life sentences after admitting to the murders of 17 young men and boys, some of whom he mutilated and cannibalized, when he was killed by another inmate at a Wisconsin prison in 1994.
--jacket. She was later released on bail, with orders to stay away from the other woman and to wear a monitoring device; she faced a medical exam at Johnson Space Center.
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Shana Dale, assistant administrator of NASA talks with NASA general council Michael Wholey, at the conclusion of a press conference regarding the recent arrest of astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak at NASA headquarters in Washington on Wednesday.
Stress overwhelms astronaut Personal, professional life may have been too much for Nowak
BY RASHA MADKOUR
AND DAVID CRARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
--jacket. She was later released on bail, with orders to stay away from the other woman and to wear a monitoring device; she faced a medical exam at Johnson Space Center.
HOUSTON - Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three.
Her background — high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot — seemed to equip her for the challenge. Yet as she and some of her acquaintances acknowledged, the stresses on her and her family were extraordinarily intense.
NASA, at a loss to explain what went wrong, said it would revamp its psychological screening process in light of Nowak's arrest. The review will look at how astronauts are screened for psychological problems and whether Nowak's dealings with co-workers signaled complications.
On Wednesday, transformed from space hero to criminal suspect, Nowak returned to Houston for a medical assessment, a day after she was charged in Florida with attempted murder and attempted kidnapping in what police depicted as a love triangle involving a fellow astronaut.
The woman viewed as a role model by the schoolchildren she often addressed was met on the tarmac by police and escorted into a waiting squad car. Her head was covered by a
Nowak's children were with her husband, Richard, who works for a NASA contractor. She was being replaced as a ground communicator for the next space shuttle mission in March, a job in which she would talk to the astronauts from Houston during their flight.
Some part of any breakdown may deny rational explanation, but those who know Nowak and NASA could sense the stress she was under.
Columbia disaster, said Nowak provided invaluable support to his family then, at the cost of losing time with her own family.
Dr. Jon Clark, a former NASA flight surgeon who lost his wife, astronaut Laurel Clark, in the 2003
"She was the epitome of managing a very hectic career, making sacrifices to accommodate her family," Clark said in a telephone interview. "All those stresses can conspire to be overwhelming. Clearly she suffered a lot of mental anguish.
"There is a lot of marital stress in the astronaut corps in general — a huge amount," Clark said, "It's not unheard of for things to change into relationships that are beyond professional."
Clark also said there can be extra pressure on NASAs female astronauts.
"They made more sacrifices than the 'Right Stuff' guys," he said,
"They have to balance two careers — to be a mom and wife and an astronaut. You don't come home at night, like most of the male astronauts, and have everything ready for you."
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