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Mar 2023
24m 57s

PRECEDENT: Adam Walsh

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In 1981, a young boy named Adam was abducted by a stranger from a shopping plaza. It would take almost three decades to bring closure to his family but in that time Adam’s legacy would forever change the way America views and handles missing children cases.

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