10. Ottis Toole
Serial killer Ottis Toole, was already serving five life sentences for murder when he made a chilling confession to his niece while dying of liver failure; it was him who was responsible for the murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh in 1981. The young boy had been snatched while visiting a Hollywood department store with his mother, and it wasn’t until two weeks later that fishermen made the grisly discovered of his severed head 120 miles away.
Though Toole had confessed to the killing twice before, he had later withdrawn the admission, and as he had a long history of making false confessions, it was not looked into any further. Adam Walsh’s family however, remained sure that he was responsible, and years later their suspicions were confirmed when the police found him to be the culprit following a review of the case after Toole’s deathbed confession.
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