The death of Adam Walsh

           

Today I’ll talk about one of the most famous cases of child abduction and murder in the history of the United States. This case struck the American heart, not only that he was young, but the child’s death was just simply unimaginable for parents to bear it. The story starts on a afternoon in July 27, 1981. A boy was suspected to be kidnapped by an unknown assailant in a mall in Florida.

          The boy is known as Adam Walsh, age 6, the son of John Walsh, later to be come one of the leading victims crime activist. Later on, john became the host of America’s Most Wanted.  It all started when his mother allowed him to play video games together withthe group of boys, while she need to have a bathroom break, just 10 minutes after, the boy is gone and nowhere to be found. A massive man hunt was conducted in every area of the mall, searching for AdamWalsh’s body, but they were no results at all. Surprisingly, on August 10, 1981, the boy’s head was discovered in a drainage without it’s body. It was only after 2 years after they had an answer.

          By 1983, a man named Ottis Toole, confessed of the murder.He also implicated one serial murderer named Henry Lee Lucas. Several months later, he led the police to the place where he buried the boy, but it has gone into nothing. He repeatedly took back his story afterit. He died of liver cirrhosis in 1996. Years after it, Jeffrey Dahmer, another known serial killer who is at Florida at that time of the killings, was also considered as one of the suspects.

          Because of this case, John Walsh, the father of Adam, later became a founder of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He then became the host of America’s most Wanted which is the instrument in catching most of the fugitives in America. On July 27, 2006, 25 years after Adam went missing, President George W. Bush signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act into law, which created a national database of convicted child sex offenders.

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Bruce Lee died at age 32 on this day

Today, I would like to take you back in the life and achievement of one of the most known and beloved icons in history of this world. In 1960’s this man has created his name towards movies. Especially to the martial arts field, this man has made a blue print or somewhat making the field more colorful and interesting. Probably, all of that generation  has known him well, regarding his movies and also the details of his life as an artist. But also most of us knows, the theories that surrounds its death causes and the question who did it and why.

                               

I’m talking about Jun Fan, popularly known as Bruce Lee. He was born in San Francisco, California on November 27, 1940, to a Chinese opera star who is his father. A yearlater his family moved back in Hong Kong , there he started his career studying dancing and trained in the Win Chun style of gung fu popularly known as kung fu. He then appeared in about 20 films as a child actor. Few years after, he returned to America and meets his wife there named Linda Emery, they married in 1964 and by 1965, there first children was born naming it Brandon Lee. In 1966, Lee appeared in a television program named “Green Hornet” as a sidekick of the Hornet named Kato. From then on he has private clients and also joined karate tournaments around the United States.

                                In 1970’s, Lee went back to Hong Kong and successfully established himself as a star. The movies like “The Big Boss” and also “The Way of the Dragon” as a director, a writer and also starred in the said movie. A film was released in Hollywood called “Enter the Dragon” around August of 1973. This movie became a box office hit. Earning Lee as an icon in America that time, which the movie grossed about 200 million dollars. This was really known and almost watched by most of the Americans.

                         

On July 20, 1973, Lee died one month earlier before the movie was released in Hollywood. His cause of death was ruled out as brain edema caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller.  Lots of speculation came out like Lee was murdered by Chinese gangsters and a even a curse came out as a cause of his death. A curse controversy came out only when his son Brandon Lee died also at a young age of 28.  Brandon died of an accidental shooting on a set of the movie “The Crow” in 1991.  Both of the Lee’s were buried in a cemetery in Seattle Washington.


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Yankees owner's death

George Steinbrenner’s death 5 years ago.

                Not all of the filipino’s love watching baseball, maybe because the nation is widely more on the basketball, and it is really that obvious. Probably we Filipino’s knows baseball more specifically on the team monikers and its design which is widely used in clothing and baseball caps. One team that is really that known in baseball ever since, is the team that somehow shape the baseball world, it’s the New York Yankees, which I also featured in my previous blog postings. And this time I’m going to write more on its leadership and also ownership’s history. This particular person is not known worldwide, but is really that remarkable especially in New York, USA.

                 

His name is George Michael Steinbrenner III the long time owner of the Yankees since 1973. George was born on July 4, 1930 in the state of Ohio. He graduated with the Masters Degree in Physical Education, which really meant that he is really into sports. Since that time of his ownership, the team had 7 World series and 11 American league pennants. In 1960’s he started he became an owner of a short-lived basketball team which is the Cleveland Pipers. He also invested on horse racing, broad way shows and other business ventures.

                He had bought the Yankees in 1973 for only about 10 million dollars, which is far away huge than it cost until his death that cost around 1.6 billion dollars. He is known to be dictating the players a lot, involving the haircut measurements and other things which is really that personal. Steinbrenner himself was suspended from the sport twice–first, in 1974, after pleading guilty to making illegal corporate contributions to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign, and a second time, in 1990, for paying a small-time gambler to dig up damaging information about Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield, with whom Steinbrenner was feuding. Steinbrenner and the Yankees also raked in millions from lucrative licensing and marketing deals.

                In 2009, the Yankees won their 27^th World series which considered by some as the most memorable gift that they could offer to their owner before its death. His sons Hal and Hank is the one who manages the team right now. George’s health declined and until such time that he died of a heart attack on July 13, 2010, leaving a legacy along with it’s players.

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