John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted lost his son Adam twenty-seven years ago. Now, after almost three decades, police have finally closed the case with the deathbed admission of Otis Toole that he killed Adam Walsh.

FOX News reports:

John and Reve Walsh were planning to have a second child, a brother or sister for their 6-year-old son Adam, back in the summer of 1981.

But on July 27 of that year, their lives turned upside down. Adam was in the video game department of Sears, near their home in Hollywood, Fla., while his mother was looking at lamps just three aisles away.

When some older boys got into a fight over the games, Adam was ushered outside with them and left alone in the parking lot, according to America's Most Wanted, the long-running television show that was launched by John Walsh.

That was when Adam vanished. And that was the day the Walshes launched what America's Most Wanted calls "the largest manhunt for a missing child in the state of Florida."

Two weeks later, the Walshes' hopes were shattered when their little boy's head was found 100 miles away, in an irrigation ditch in Vero Beach, Fla.

In 1983, serial killer Ottis Elwood Toole confessed to killing Adam with Henry Lee Lucas, another serial killer whom Toole called his "crime partner and homosexual lover."

On Thursday, 27 years after Adam was murdered, police in Hollywood, Fla., said that Toole had confessed to the boy's murder on his deathbed, and they declared the case was closed.

Certainly this case has resonated with Americans both as replete with irony and tragedy. Our thoughts today are with John and Reve Walsh.