Tears of Rage
by John Walsh
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Author: John WalshContributor: Susan Schindehette
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-05
ISBN: 1439136343
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Pocket Books
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- ISBN13: 9781439136348
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A choice to not lose everything when you have lost everything
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember being very small when the movie "Adam" came out.It was around this time in early grade school they started to fingerprint us I believe as a direct result of that case and Mr. Walsh's move to help protect children. I never forgot Adam's story.
John Walsh is an amazing man with an amazingly hearwrenching story that no one on this earth should ever, ever have to experience. The book begins with an opening that goes back to one of the terrible days in the Walsh's family. It then proceeds to tell about John and his growing up years. I thought is was amusing to see John was a troublemaker, tough guy with a bit of a hard and daring streak. In a strange way those very personality traits probably saved him later in life after Adam disappeared.
The mid point of the book goes into their discovery of little Adam's remains. At that moment you feel the open wounds and torture both John and Reve must have felt. His description of his reaction is one of the most brutally honest and sad things I ever read. I felt anger and rage for them . I cannot even comprehend what they went through. How could someone be so devoid and sick to take this beautiful boy. There no way to make sense of it.
John was angry and used the anger to make a difference. I believe the anger he directed is ultimately what saved; his life, his family, and the lives of countless others with his crusade. This book is not an easy read yet rewarding in a way that is shows you how the human spirit can prevail .The book is also frustrating; it makes you angry at the system in place back then. Also, that such evil that exists in this world. It is shocking to see how they handled missing child cases back then; knowing what we know now it is amazing the blasé attitude people had about a very young missing child. Thank you Mr. Walsh for sharing your story. You are someone to be admired. I am sure this is a book you did not want to write and a story you did not want to live but you show that strength, courage and convictions still exist today. God Bless you, your wife and family and God Bless the movement you created to make this a safer, better world.
Summary of Tears of Rage
The host of the America's Most Wanted, John Walsh tells for the first time the full story of the 1981 abduction and murder of his six-year-old son, Adam. This is the heartbreaking chronicle of John Walsh's transformation from grieving father to full-time activist -- and the infuriating conspiracy of events that have kept America's No. 1 crime-fighter from obtaining justice and closure for himself and his family.From the day Adam disappeared from a mall in Hollywood, Florida, John Walsh faced a local police department better equipped to track stolen cars than missing children -- and a criminal justice system that would work against him in unimaginable ways. Outraged but determined, he ultimately enlarged the search for Adam's killer into an exhaustive battle on behalf of all missing and abused children, beginning with his efforts to put missing children's faces on milk cartons. Today, John Walsh continues the fight for legislative change and public awareness, driven by his own personal tragedy. Tears of Rage is the story of a true American hero: a man who challenged the system in the name of his son.
In this aptly titled book, John Walsh traces the steps that led him from being a grieving father to becoming a grieving father who hosts TV's America's Most Wanted, the Fox true-crime show that hunts down bad guys every week through a toll-free tip line. Walsh, however, seems ambivalent about the fame he's been granted. He presents a somewhat halting, uncertain narrative in this autobiography (cowritten with Susan Schindehette), and he makes it clear all the way through that his life is really only driven by one thing: the still-unsolved 1981 abduction and murder of his 6-year-old son, Adam.
Walsh's anger and frustration over a "bumbling" police investigation of his son's murder is evident throughout. According to Walsh, the Hollywood, Florida, Police Department should have arrested a drifter named Ottis Toole--a convicted serial killer who played sidekick for many years to the notorious killer Henry Lee Lucas. Walsh speculates that the police had "formed their own ideas" about who killed Adam and didn't want to believe Toole could have been responsible. But Walsh is convinced, and he presents a large amount of evidence to support his case. Unfortunately, it's too late: Ottis Toole died several years ago in prison.
This is not an easy book to read, and one imagines it wasn't an easy book for John Walsh to write, as he describes, with a staccato style reminiscent of Jack Webb, the probable sequence of events of Adam's disappearance as well as the manner of his death. The bulk of Tears of Rage concerns Adam's abduction and its aftermath and the impact the Walsh family has had since in helping to pass various victims' and children's rights legislation. --Tjames Madison
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