How the Horrifying Murder of Adam Walsh Changed America

Season 4, Episode 26,   Sep 09, 09:00 AM

In 1981, a 6-year-old boy accompanied his mother to a Sears department store, where she left him for mere minutes in the toy department. Two weeks later, the boy's head was discovered in a ditch. Learn how the horrifying case -- and the South Florida police department's decades-long bungling of it -- changed parenting in America.

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