I remember watching a documentary about the Adam Walsh case. I knew the history of John Walsh from watching America's Most Wanted but I never knew the specifics until I watched that documentary. I remember being utterly heartbroken for Adam's parents. Can't imagine the heartache and pain that both Renee and John felt when they realised that their son wasn't just missing but was murdered and all they found was his head. When John Walsh got to the part where he was describing how he felt when he realised that all that was ever going to be found was his son's head, it shattered my heart into thousands of pieces. You can tell that he's still in a lot of pain. My mother was born in the same year that Adam was. Sad to think that little Adam never got a chance to live his life because he crossed paths with a monster. He would be turning 48 years old this November if none of this happened.

if he wasnt taken, john would never have the career he had. always a weird thing to think about.

Were the “group of older boys“ who got kicked out of the store ever identified? Could THEY not’ve shed some light on the matter…?

This reminds me of the Michael Donahee case from BC. While playing in a park across the street from his home and was abducted. Poof, no trace, no reckoning nor closure for his parents. He is still in my prayers every night.

Boomer parents....

Exactly

I remember growing up in the 70s and 80s and the kids knew who the weirdos were. We also watched videos about stranger danger in school.

I was allowed to ride my bike all over town in the 80’s, but lots of people still let their kids do that now. My mom always kept us with her in stores; we were never left anywhere. We were also warned about strangers when I was a little kid in the 70’s, though I did walk through the neighborhood from school on my own most days (it was not on a main road and we didn’t have many odd people roaming around). I think the internet has made us more aware of danger, and there are more people in this country now on top of that, but it’s not like the 70’s and 80’s were so innocent. There was a little kid murdered in the park up the road from our house by a stranger when I was around 15.

This was still true in the 90's. I was born in the later 80's, and in the early to mid 90's my friends and I could walk to elementary school, a local park, and reach a massive forest/reserve on foot that my house backed into, where we built treehouses and forts and made deer trails into cleared paths and mapped them. We got lost all the time and ended up in neighborhoods miles away that also backed into the forest, and we'd just find a house with a phone sometime in the evening or night when we finally got out. We wouldn't go home until we collected everyone who was out playing, so no one kid would be left behind and "get in trouble."

I think Adam's murder changed that...

When I worked at TJ Maxx in the late '00s, parents would do the same thing! 😕 And didn't IKEA have a play area where you could leave your kids while you shopped? My brother and I LOVED that!

@@MrsRitchieBlackmore and our local bookstore had a train table in the children's area that would occupy little ones while you shopped or got a coffee!

A lot of stores participate in what’s called Code Adam, which is named after Adam Walsh. Home Depot and Walmart do. We were trained to lock doors and check children for disguises, we would get on the intercoms and state we have a “Code Adam.”

Yeah, some parents today think that the toy sections of bookshops, malls, and big name box stores (like Walmart) are great places to leave their children while they do their shopping for other things. It's like, if you can't handle your children shopping with you because they're going to misbehave or cause trouble, don't bring them when you're doing shopping. Find a baby sitter or something. I remember being at a Chapters to look for a birthday present for my sister and some mother was getting yelled at for leaving her three children (all under the age of five and included a child under the age of 1) unattended in the children's section for TWO HOURS while she browsed the shelves and went to the store's Starbucks to enjoy some time alone with her friends. Not sure what happened with her- but I hope that the store called police and got a child protection group involved. The store was even calling for her on the intercom because her very young children were there for hours wrecking havoc on the bookstore and the eldest child was expected to feed the youngest when they got hungry, too...

My brother and I grew up during this time and it was just a given, if we went to Walmart, my brother and I automatically went to the toy isle while my mom shopped. After Adam Walsh, that came to an end.

What was more frightening: almost being abducted - or learning that it was a white male?

So glad everything ended up ok! When I was like 8 I went with my mom to a doctors in Philly. While we were waiting I asked if I could run out to the hot dog stand to get some chips and a young foreign couple kept asking me to go with them and they’d buy me something to eat. even after I already said no and my mom was inside. The woman tried to go for my hand and I took off.

@@eadweard. love the obscure racism..🤣

Admittedly it is strange but isn't it more likely that the man wasn't an abuser than that it was? I would imagine so. I would imagine that a fraction of people are weirdos and then a fraction of those with malicious intent. Maybe he was socially inept and wanted companionship. But it's understandable you got scared i would too.

@@eadweard. what kind of question is this mam??? Of course is about someone you dont know taking you. 🙄🙄🙄show empathy its freee.

Both him, and Henry Lee Lucas look like they came out EC comics.

Herny is the guy from Texas chainsaw massacre the dad

@@elfeo2534 The Original. He certainly does look like it. They were sick and twisted.

@@caucasoidape8838 Both Were Casual Lovers, Off/On For Years Until Lucas Hooked Up W Toole's Niece: (Frieda "Becky" Powell, Underaged @ The Time),That He'd Recruited As A Co-Conspiritor...And Then He'd Eventually Permanently Expended Her, To The Grave.

@@caucasoidape8838they look inbred

We leave babies (and toddlers) to sleep outside in Finland. Even in winter

Kids in Japan, even quite young kids, still do that today, without any notes pinned on them or anything like that. Parents are busy there, with the Japanese working notoriously long hours. Kids learn to get themselves to school, and their after school academies and so on by themselves, on public transport and on foot. Of course, there's a far greater confidence in public safety, on the streets, in Japan. This is aided by a very homogeneous society with a shared culture that emphasizes strict behavioral codes. Back in the 1960s, there was a notorious case of 3 young siblings who disappeared in Adelaide, Australia. It created shockwaves there, and the mystery of the missing Beaumont children remains well remembered today. The Beaumont children were very young, and they set off together to the beach on their own, which was just a short bus ride away. Their mother gave them just enough change for their fare - a fact which became very significant in the case after it wad revealed that the children had gone into a pie shop there and bought pies for all the kids, and ordered another for some other person. And paid for it with pound notes - far more than the coins and change their mother gave them. It was extremely common back then, and the norm really, for young kids to take the bus, go down to the beach or shops etc., unaccompanied by a parent or adult guardian. Nobody gave it a second thought. Until the Beaumont children vanished without a trace. It's a mystery that was never solved, although there were details of witnesses who saw thw children with a man (whom they presumed to be the kids' father).

I'm from the suburbs of Philadelphia and as a young kid in the 70's my parents let my brother and I wander and roam all over the place without supervision.

@@SY-ok2dq the show on Netflix, Old Enough!, is literally about kids running errands around Japan. It’s cute but definitely shows that they expect kids to walk around by themselves

@@Sweetmotion23 I think I've seen clips about that. I wonder why they chose that title. I hope it doesn't lure in creepy people. The clips are adorable. But there have been too many stories on just about every continent. I don't think I'd trust letting kids roam alone. (I guess they have a camera crew, but otherwise nope)

Kids still went missing back then but it was not blown up in the media back then. My aunt during the 70s was almost abducted. I highly recommend watching a movie from 1930 called M. It is based on a kidnapper serial killer.

Well said

I remember him saying once that "He'd be forever the father of a murdered child". I can't imagine a worse fate. I would be so consumed with anger and bitterness if something so horrible happened to me.

Dr Grande is saying that no crime should negate the ability to reason. You totally missed the point. Even « channeling your anger » should be done with reason. He also committed a crime but didn’t do the time, yet he thought everyone else should at the same level of harshness.

Damn right👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@@lisadabbs2181 I would kill myself.

We miss Toys R Us

Woah

Just started working at toys r us and they still teach us this !

@@tq999 they are in macys now

Walmart has a code adam too

Darn kid.... he got a kick am sure.... but in your shoes, my soul would have said goodbye to my body!

Wow, I cannot imagine!

I did that as a kid, too. The circular racks were a lot of fun for a kid.

LMAO

My son, born in 1982, did the same thing! He was only 2 1/2 & disappeared in a Sears store. Store employees, my mother & myself were frantic. We found him laughing under one of those circular racks. I went straight over to the children’s department & purchased a harness with a leash. I made him wear it in crowded areas until he started to school. I used to get some of the dirtiest looks & comments from people, but after experiencing even a few minutes of that kind of terror I didn’t care what anyone else thought.

There are more constructive ways to cope with trauma

@@trotter7679 No kidding, but not everyone has the tools or guidance to cope in healthy ways, at least at the start.

I wanted to give you more support for your comment but it’s only aloud one 👍🏽

@@trotter7679 blah, blah, blah

@@Lostcamp that's not one of them

John Walsh needs to Collab with Chris Hansen.

I admire John Walsh too. I also imagine John's wife's parents knew his age and allowed her to date him....

@@normacook8325 At the time, that was relatively more acceptable. A young John Walsh today wouldn't be able to go near a 16 year old girl.

@@jennysehr926 For really real...not all is as it seems...

He saved lives

John Walsh is someone I look up to.

Yeah I seriously consider him to be a real life batman

Very very disturbing

I think you would be petrified if you knew the dark secrets and alternate lives of even just the people you work with.

Specially if you live in the US where there are 50 active serial killers at any time as the FBI has predicted. In other countries this issue is practically non existant.

I think it was the carpet taken from the car because of the blood stain, they didn't keep the car.

Couldn’t agree more

Agree 1000%!

Agreed. Once you take someone’s innocent life on purpose you are on the bottom level of scum and that is that. I can never forgive a criminal for murdering, especially children.

I'm not so sure pedophilia is something that cultural relativism can make right. For that matter, neither is leaving your child alone in public for more than a few seconds. The reasonableness of the position that you shouldn't leave your child alone is not based on the growing panic of society. The danger existed then to about the same extent that it does now. What changed is the peer pressure surrounding it, not the reasonableness of it.

A lot of people think that the 98 year old Nazi should just be overlooked because of the passage of time.

Yes I absolutely remember doing that. I grabbed a woman’s hand who had a coat on that looked like my mom’s. The very nice woman held on to my hand until we found my mom, but boy things could have turned out differently.

Today's children are FAR more sheltered than you probably were, even after the incident. The Stranger Danger irrational fear never went away.

Maybe but it was realistic

@@lisamac8503 Not sure if this is what you meant, but I don't think my fear was rational as I was more likely to be abducted or abused by someone I knew rather than some strange dude in a rusted old panel van LOL

And the security was a kid too. They were probably kids from his highschool who he didn't like. Just sad.

No one cared about that stuff in the 80s I was little maybe 6 I had to go to the bathroom at the airport my dad showed me where it was and went to the car to wait for me I had to figure out how to get out of the building and find the right car he didn't think anything about it people who saw me didn't think anything about it. It totally wasn't the same as today. Also the security guard probably thought Adam was with the older boys his big brother or something

It wasn't Otis.. He would confess to literally every murder the cops asked him about. His only known crime was arson murder and this didn't fit the M.O. of his known crimes. It would be like saying it was you, there's equal reason to think it's you - absolutely no reason to think so.

I agree. I don't think Jeffrey Dahmer did this.

@Crime_scoper-X Kids like plenty of 'scary' people and things. Look no further than Bikers against Child Abuse. Dhamer had a different MO, he wouldn't have dumped the body as he did.

@Crime_scoper-X Dahmer was not into young children, like Adam Walsh's age. Dahmer's victims were young men - MEN - whom Dahmer considered to be attractive and with fit, slim bodies. They were men who were much like the attractive young men whom Dahmer had previously tried to pick up, with some success, in gay clubs and bathhouses for sexual encounters. They were all MEN, not little kids. There was one young teenaged boy who became Dahmer's victim, but he was around 15 yrs old and did not look like a child. He looked like he could be passed off as an older teen, like 18, and in fact, Dahmer was easily able to convince two policemen that this teen was 18 and was Dahmer's drunken boyfriend. He was neither, but the policemen bought it. Another thing, Dahmer never used brute force to grab any of his victims off the street. That was not at all in his M.O. Instead, Dahmer often used his own looks to attract his (usually gay) victims - Dahmer was tall, looked young and in shape (he was in his early to late 20s for most of the murders) and had blond, WASPy, middle class/clean cut looks, which some gay men found attractive. These men were mostly young gay men who cruised bars and often picked up other gay men whom they'd only met that night. They all went willingly with Dahmer, generally going back to his place. A few of his victims, Dahmer had offered payment to pose for photos in his apartment. Dahmer's very first murder victim was not gay, and Dahmer didn't meet him in a gay hangout. The young man, Hicks was his last name I believe, was a male hitchhiker, around Dahmer's age (around 18 at that time). He gladly hopped into Dahmer's car and went back to Dahmer's home. Dahmer never had to force anyone into his car, or into his apartment. Dahmer used his powers of persuasion. Just because there have been lots of sightings of Elvis Presley alive (after his death), or of Hitler after his death, or of UFOs - doesn't mean that those sightings actually happened.

@@mariawhite7337 You're right that this case has absolutely nothing in common with Dahmer's M.O. Dahmer never went after little kids. He never abducted anyone off a street. Dahmer didn't use force to get his victims into his apartment. And almost all of them were young, gay MEN, who hung out in gay clubs etc. and were interested in gay hookups. Adam Walsh was nothing like Dahmer's victims. And lastly, Dahmer kept the heads, body parts, and skeletons of his victims in his apartment. That was his fetish.

@Crime_scoper-X if you know what Dhamer wanted then you'd know that this was nowhere near his MO. like not even close.

I was very disappointed by his remarks too. Sometimes his youth skews his remarks ....

Endlessly glamourising people, giving the impression that good people are somehow superhuman, does more harm than good.

@@susivarga7303 what are you talking about?

@@robinscirica3871 can't read?

@@susivarga7303 endlessly? I made one comment. Glamorizing? I stated a fact. Superhuman? Doing good things does not make one superhuman. Why the rude sarcasm?

It's bad enough when you lose your keys or purse, I can't imagine how a person feels losing their child!

Parents still leave their babies in prams outside of stores in some parts of Europe. There was a big stink in NYC a handful of years ago about a couple from Denmark (or the Netherlands) visiting NYC who left their kid outside a store in a stroller. Someone called the police. It was on local and national news to raise awareness that this is not a good thing to do when visitors are coming to the USA from other countries.

My mother accidentally left me in a Sears for over an hour when I was about 9 years old, which would have been in the mid-80s, to head off to my brother's baseball game. I had been left in the arcade located at the front of the store, but I guess she forgot that she had brought me with her. I wandered around in a growing panic, and the service desk did make a couple of announcements over the loudspeaker, but to no avail. I wonder if in this day and age they would have eventually contacted the police. It was a pretty traumatic experience.

Chester Wilberforce. I’ve never heard of this happening in America

We leave kids outside sleeping in prams in Iceland. But we’re also only 370.000 and have never had a random abduction. Also, we’re an island, would be hard to go anywhere with a child.

@@purewonka what’s a pram?

Glad u got away 🌼

😧

I don’t think the teen boys would’ve been able to dispose of his body without trace

@@sharonmorine5407 Good point, you may be right, although, if they were older teens one or more may have had a car so it's still possible. I'm the first to admit I don't know all the particulars in this case.

@@fringe9068 and 130 miles away, too, which is where the child's head was found

People back then weren't more naive: they'd just had different things highlighted to them by the media.

@@eadweard. Definitely true! To be fair, my mom would have FREAKED if she'd known I was doing that. Even I knew deep down it wasn't the best idea. But it didn't scare me at all. Now, the thought of getting in a stranger's car gives me full body chills. Doubly for children.

Ironically, this generation may judge us for our naïveté regarding strangers back then but they're practically doing the same every time they take an uber, share their location to "followers" on the internet, stay in an AirBnB, or hook up with someone they met on a dating app. At least in the 70s to the 90s we were raised to be streetsmart and fend for ourselves. I wonder how this generation will be judged in 20 to 30 years.

Young people often feel they are, in their thinking, immortal-that nothing can harm them. You acted this out and are very fortunate you weren’t harmed.

I hate to tell you, but the mid nineties was nearly 20 years ago.

I sometimes accepted rides from strangers to and from school in the mid-late '90s! 😬 An absolutely chilling thought now, but I honestly had zero fear then. Before everyone had the internet, we were just so much more trusting in general.

This is a terrible story, but the chance that you child will have something like this happen is incredibly low. The risk is about the same as the risk that your child will choke to death while eating. Education about situational awareness is appropriate, but you should not stress out over it or treat your child like a prisoner.

Glad you’re ok! My “mother” did the same. I had to walk through several “seedy” areas as we didn’t live in a great part of town. I always had to go to “camp” or a “summer program” bc my “mother” couldn’t be bothered to raise her kids. I was so ASHAMED when my camp counselors got upset I was walking home alone and intervened. I was ALWAYS so embarrassed growing up that my parents had ZERO concern for me. I was also always the “outsider” and “odd man out”. As I got older, especially high school I was SO uncomfortable in my “home”. When I left “home” at 17 years old I didn’t look anyone in the eye. Hell, I wasn’t able to look people in the face until I had been through Army basic training. I have NO IDEA why my “parents” had children. I don’t consider myself a victim of neglect or abuse bc I know true victims have endured much worse. I agree with you though. I would NEVER let any child in my care walk to school alone. I wouldn’t even put them on the school bus. I know that’s a bit extreme but I’ve always worried about things like “what if the bus driver is a drinker and hungover?!?”. I just don’t people I don’t know well with my kids and animals.

@@amandanegrete1306 You were still a victim, I can tell by the way you put inverted commas around certain words and the looking in the face thing .... because I did and do all of those things too. I am really happy that you were able to move on from this and grow .... i also did, but will always feel a little emotionally stunted and missing out. Some people definitely should not have children, I absolutely agree 💕

@@MrsRitchieBlackmore We all rode bikes or walked to school many days when I was in elementary school in the 90s. It was perfectly safe. The most danger we got into was riding our bicycles on a small dirt track with some ramps. I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything in the world, but then, I actually got to LIVE as a child, unlike kids today. People like you should take a hint from Dr. Grande's conclusions in this video and stop living in fear.

I often wonder what serial killers think of when they hear others doing the same as them but different M.Os

I'm old enough to remember Etan Patz who was snatched before Adam Walsh while walking to school.

I was a librarian and people would drop off their children at the library and go shopping etc. No, libraries are not safe places to leave young children.

It's not like Adam was the 1st stranger abduction. People were just being stupid. It existed, people knew it was possible.

He needs to speak at the UN general assembly, and call out both Biden and Putin.

Nothing changed, besides what the media decided to show you.

@@eadweard. More so possibly that Media hasn't been INSTANTANEOUS like it is now. News stories used to take MONTHS to circulate...

There have always been horrible crimes. If you ever get a chance to see it, check out the series A Crime To Remember, which features vintage footage, recreation, and discussion of crimes of the past.

"I Know My Name is Stephen," what a gut-wrenching story. After all that trauma, you get your boy back, but things are still NOT the way it is supposed to be. 😭

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As Dr Grande points out later in the video, this was not unusual at the time. I was a child in the 1980s and I can personally attest that my own parents and all of my friends' parents would allow young children some reasonable leeway in stores and malls. It was normal, and it is not reasonable to use your after the fact knowledge to fault the mother or the store. This type of thing was extremely rare. It may be hard to believe, but back then people were not constantly in fear of anyone they didn't know.

​@@stt5v2002 Now we just have factual details but back then it was stories of monsters when the reality is those monsters are mankind. I had an Aunt murdered by a serial monster in 1980. the world is full of monsters.

Six year olds aren't toddlers.

@@stt5v2002 I don’t know man. My mom would have never let me out of sight at a mall. I was born in ‘82 and I can remember things not being as crazy back then and parents were definitely less uptight about leaving their children alone. Still there’s zero chance that my parents would’ve let me just hang out with a group of older kids while they shopped.

I agree Not sure what planet others are talking about But it was not safe in the 70's or 80's

It depends a lot on where you lived.

@@kam2162 you could say the same even now. There was plenty of crime back then, we just didn’t have the internet to broadcast everything. I lived in MA in the suburbs and we were very aware that there were bad people out there. I think sometimes the nostalgia gets to people; I lived it and it wasn’t that different from now, aside from that we’re more aware and we have things like cell phones to keep in touch with our kids. We also have a larger population.

A graph from the New York Times actually shows higher murder rates in the 70’s and 80’s than in the 2000’s.

@@ciararyan9370 Newspapers and TV existed back then, you know. And their power and reach were far greater back then, when there was no Internet. Everyone watched the news on TV, and people read the newspapers. In fact, in major cities in some countries, like the U.K., there used to be TWO editions of major newspapers that came out every day. There was the morning edition, and the evening edition. Lots of people got newspapers delivered to their homes and offices daily. And people paid attention to the news in a way that's different to now. News stories often ran for a lot longer, with a lot of coverage, for weeks - and the public would still be interested. News stories had a much longer shelf life then. Nowadays, the cycle is super short, and the audience is very fragmented, and they pick and choose what to read or watch. Stories don't have the same reach that they did back in the days of only TV and print. It's not like the days of only terrestrial TV broadcasts, with only a few channels to choose from, in most places. As for plenty of crime - well actually, there WAS less crime in a lot of places than there is now - or at least, certain types of crime. Many cities have grown, and populations increased. And that raises crime rates. In the U.K. for example, knife attacks are now alarmingly common. But they weren't at all, in the early 80s. Nobody back then would've believed how common and how much of a public threat that knife crime has become. And we're not talking about it all being gangs, and only gang members and street criminals/drug dealers etc. getting knifed. It's ordinary citizens, young men just out on a Saturday night for drinks at the pub, or out at clubs. In the Walsh case, they were in a major store, in a nice area, not some rundown neighborhood. A mall with security staff, and what's more, a police station nearby. I'm pretty sure most people don't expect that a child could get snatched from such a public place with people everywhere and security staff about. That's the shocking thing. Malls were the big thing of the 80s, and they were perceived to be safe, secure and desirable places to spend your day at. Also, whilst there has always been crime and so on, certain crimes became more common and well publicized. A good example would be school, and mass, shootings, in the U.S., but also in other countries where it came as a complete surprise and shock e.g. the Port Arthur shootings in Australia and the Lindt cafe hostage crisis and shootings in Sydney, Australia. Public gun crime had been practically unheard of in cities like Sydney before that. Nobody really owned guns. Only farmers and people living in country areas owned guns and regularly used them - to shoot kangaroos, dingos, foxes etc. Not shoot at people. There were also no gang turf wars or shootings back in the 80s in Sydney, but now American-style drive-by shootings on suburban streets have been hitting the news of late. I should add that the population has increased greatly since the 80s, as has development. There are now lots of large apartment towers - built within the last 10 or 20, or 30 years. The "nicer" and quieter suburbs of Sydney remained very insulated from street type crime, or very violent crime, for decades. And even now. It's the busy hubs with concentrated populations, apartment blocks etc..,where such crimes have increased noticeably.

That gave me chills. I'll bet it terrifies you now to think what might have happened..

The amount of disturbing people just lurking around. Your comment reminded me of when my church went to the zoo for Christmas light displays I was maybe 11 or 12 and I did the photos with Santa and he was in my ear like "you're not bashful are you" it wouldn't have been creepy if he hadn't whispered it into my ear. It was very weird. And I was with a group just taking my turn at pictures smh.

My guess is the parents plotted it all out, so the mom had an alibi, while John Walsh himself took care of their unwanted child. Why else would she lie about how long she abandoned her child, and the wait to call the police fits with this theory. Idk if John had an alibi as well but I'd sure like to know if anyone checked that out.

This was back along though.

Couldn't agree more and not just America, many, many other countries too.

Today is scarier! Id shoot on site someone trying to pick up my kid!

How does being from the sixties furnish you with a general knowledge of how Sear's security guards behaved?

@@eadweard. Sears would have had procedures to follow; many Sears' employees were part time and not "contracted out' like today's retail (especially security).

Thats why my kids stayed with me until I was done and then it was their turn to make me wait if they wanted to do something like the video game.

Well as it turns out, people known to the children not "strangers", from parents and relatives to neighbors to teachers, sports coaches, Scout leaders, and local priests or church leaders etc. - are statistically more responsible for some form of harm or abuse being done to children. That's the weakness of only telling kids to be wary of strangers. Any adult can impersonate a policeman or the store manager, or claim to be sent by the child's parents - this was how, in one abduction/murder case, a child older than Adam was abducted by a man, who'd been watching the family with the intention to ransom the boy for money.

Well, it was totally normal back then, even by overprotective parents. They just never thought their kid who would be in the same store as them but in a different section would be kidnapped. There were other kids around Adam, she thought he would be okay, they were older.

Pretty much all the kids took swimming lessons at the lake when we were old enough, which if I remember correctly was 5 years old, and we learned the buddy system in these classes, so we always had a designated buddy when at the lake, and we carried it over to other activities as well. I remember there was a creepy guy at the lake who would always offer to buy us ice cream or candy from the concession stand, and sometimes we took him up on it. If he was criminally minded he would have had a tough time getting any of us alone because we practiced the buddy system diligently and always traveled in a pack.

When I was a kid in London during the 1960s both boys and girls were let out for the day, there were some great parks, the park keepers used to tell us off for misbehaving.

I was 5 in 58. We all walked to school. Stayed out from morning till lunch, from lunch till you heard your mom calling.

I grew up in Las Vegas in the 70's and we would ride bikes, go to the mall, the 7eleven, play outside all day and never think twice about being abducted. Las Vegas was alot safer back then, now I would not feel safe there at any time or anywhere.