Ottis Toole

Two weeks later and 125 miles away, his head was found in a canal west of Vero Beach.

It is this man, convicted murderer and drifter Ottis Toole, who is believed by many to have killed the boy.

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So, uh, Ottis Toole is the co-killer with Henry Lee Lucas, right? So they were the serial killer team, the one that Bush pardoned.

But at that time they thought Ottis Toole was the Adam Walsh guy, but perhaps not.

Toole has confessed to the crime and recanted two times.

There are a lot of cases and, uh, hatred.

He was teaching anatomy to Billy.

Yeah, I mean, they can get people off.

I don't know too much about that case, but I know in the cases of people like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Otis Toole, Henry Lee Lucas, they admittedly said themselves, and I mean, they'll say that they're not reliable, but that they were part of networks that were committing contract killings and cult killings as well.

And some of the times where you see things like where Jeffrey Dahmer would have had in order to commit two murders, he would have had to commit a murder, like get into his car and drive it like 80 miles an hour to the location of the second murder and be there within like 20 minutes or something and then commit a second murder.

It seems like a lot of these that they're kind of tying up a lot of loose ends with a lot of the celebrity serial killers where they do have some killings, or at least they're taking part in some killings, but then a whole bunch of other killings are just piled on top.

But I'm going to show you that.

Oh, and by the way, of course, he had his co-killer, Otis Toole.

So this was another not a lone wolf.

He's known to work with Otis Toole.

But you got to, I guess you got to dive deeper to find out that he was connected to the Matamoros cult.

I mean, it's in his book, I think he talks about that.

Then, suddenly, a man came forward, claiming responsibility.

Henry Lee Lucas, already convicted of 11 murders, said he was the one who killed Kelly Doe, alongside his partner, Otis Toole.

In 1984, five years into his relentless search for the truth, John York flew to Texas to interview Lucas in prison.

But York was careful.

He was pressed to recall something specific that Cali Doe had been wearing, maybe a piece of jewelry.

Lucas claimed she had on a little gold piece with a teardrop at the bottom, but that detail didn't match anything found on the body.

He mentioned the name Otis Toole as his accomplice, so York followed up, traveling to Florida to question Toole directly.

What struck York as odd was that Lucas and Toole told nearly the exact same story, without having any contact or opportunity to coordinate.

Manson.

He knew Otis Toole.

They were all in Chillicothe together.

Yeah, I agree with you.

And I am not going to be going into any detail about what was done to a seven-year-old, but his body was later found two weeks afterward in a drainage canal.

Now, Otis O'Toole confessed, but he was known to make false confessions, and he later recanted.

And he was never actually convicted because there just wasn't enough evidence.

And he died in 1996.

Not really, although, well, in our county we've had three or four unsolved murders that, well, at one point we tried to tie in with one of the gentlemen who was...

in Texas, arrested in Texas, Otis Toole or something like that.

I remember him,

yeah.

Four of them were in St. Tammany.

Along with his traveling companion, Otis Toole, Lucas claimed to have killed a St. Tammany deputy named Louis Wagner, a Slidell Motel owner named Kenneth Lee Broyles, and a 28-year-old housewife from Folsom named Ruth Ann Manguno.

He also confessed to raping and murdering Roxanne Sharpe.

One of the really interesting things was they were interviewing him and they were talking about St. Tammany.

One particular call to the tip line catches detectives' attention.

Police got a tip that some serial killers, Henry Lucas and Ottis Toole, had been through the state of Maryland during that time period.

They were road mates, you know, just travel around the country.

Henry Lee Lucas had ties to Maryland, and both of these guys were free around that time in '82.

He was driving a Ford LTD.

And James McEvers said that he had seen two people in this car.

Ottis Toole was charged with Adam Walsh's murder.

And I thought, "Well, that's interesting," 'cause that was a kid who was murdered, and the head was cut off.