On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh and his mother Revé went to a Sears department store in a Hollywood, Florida, mall to shop for lamps
On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh and his mother Revé went to a Sears department store in a Hollywood, Florida, mall to shop for lamps. When they entered the store, Adam spotted a group of teenagers playing an Atari video game system and asked if he could watch them. His mom agreed since the lamps were just a few aisles over. However, when Revé returned less than 10 minutes later, Adam was gone. It was later discovered that a security guard had kicked the teens out of the store when they became rowdy while playing. Adam was too shy to say that his mother was nearby, so the guard assumed he was with them and forced him to leave the mall as well. Adam was then abducted just outside the store, and his severed head was found in a drainage canal 100 miles away two weeks later. Following the tragic dḛậth of his son, John Walsh secured a deal with Fox to start the airing of America's Most Wanted Adam Walsh, Whose Disappearance Inspired ‘America’s Most Wanted’ Th...