Bringing Adam Home (43 page)

Authors: Les Standiford

BOOK: Bringing Adam Home

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DET. SGT. JOE MATTHEWS
, a thirty-year veteran of the Miami Beach Police Department, is a former Miami-Dade County Police Officer of the Year, credited with solving the infamous Baby Lollipop homicide, among many others. He is the founder and CEO of DNA LifePrint, Inc., a corporate-sponsored, national child-safety program. He also heads his own consulting firm, advising the media, the academic community, public safety organizations, and the private sector on security issues,
investigation techniques, and cold-case homicides. For more information and details of his investigation into the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh, visit www.bringingadamhome.com.

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Credits

Cover design by Alison Forner

Cover photograph by Joerg Buschmann/Millennium Images, UK

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

BRINGING ADAM HOME. Copyright © 2011 by Les Standiford and Joe Matthews. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition March 2011 ISBN: 9780062065872

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Standiford, Les.

Bringing Adam home : the abduction that changed America / Les

Standiford with Detective Sergeant Joe Matthews. — First edition.

p. cm

ISBN 978-0-06-198390-0

1. Walsh, Adam. 2. Kidnapping—Florida—Case studies. 3. Murder—Investigation—Florida—Case studies. I. Matthews, Joe, detective sergeant, author. II. Title.

HV6603.W35S73 2011

364.15’23092—dc22

2010043572

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