Originally Posted by
flipped cracka
doesn't really say how they closed it. he died in 96 and they're just now saying it was actually him?
They assigned another chief to the case. He hired this retired detective who established more in a report.. I think.
The chief apologized to the boy's parents, John and Reve Walsh, for what he called "lapses" in the initial investigation. He added that there was no "magic" piece of evidence that led investigators to officially name a suspect now.
"This case could have been closed, and should have been closed years ago," Wagner said.
When he took over last year as police, Wagner vowed to close the Walsh case. He reviewed the entire case file and assigned a retired detective, Joe Matthews, to conduct an independent review.