Episodes

  • Introducing The Florida Files, Season 1 – The Disappearance of Adam Walsh
    Jun 22 2018
    Get ready to dive in to the Florida Files as we look back at the disappearance of Adam Walsh in a case that shook South Florida and the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    3 mins
  • Disappearance of Adam Walsh, Part 1 – A Day at the Mall Changes Everything
    Jul 5 2018
    On a typical summer day in Hollywood, Florida, a mother and her six-year-old son stop at a neighborhood mall. It's 1981. He wants to stop and play an Atari game on display in a Sears store, she goes down another aisle to look at lamps. When she returns minutes later, her son is gone. It's only the beginning of a nightmare for parents John and Revé Walsh, one that would drag on for 27 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
  • Disappearance of Adam Walsh, Part 2 – Two Weeks of Hell
    Jul 15 2018
    For two weeks in 1981, a Florida community comes together to help police and the frantic parents of a six year old attempt to locate a boy who seems to have vanished into thin air from a Sears store in a local mall. Then, a gruesome discovery in a canal more than 120 miles from where Adam Walsh disappeared changes one family's life, and alerts parents everywhere to the reality of stranger danger. Who would do such a thing and why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 mins
  • Disappearance of Adam Walsh, Part 3 – Searching For Adam's Killer
    Jul 22 2018
    Police track down leads and question alleged witnesses about who might have taken the six year old Hollywood, Fla., boy from a local mall and murdered him. Then, a drifter from Jacksonville, Fla., makes a stunning confession. But, there are holes in his story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
  • Disappearance of Adam Walsh, Part 4 – A Mother Wants Justice
    Jul 29 2018
    Ten years after Adam's disappearance, another witness comes forth to say what he saw that day at the Sears store in the Hollywood Mall. Meanwhile, things are changing at the Hollywood PD. But as time ticks on, Revé Walsh has had enough. A mother wants justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 mins
  • Disappearance of Adam Walsh, Part 5 – John Walsh Speaks Out In The Fiery Finale
    Aug 5 2018
    Today, John Walsh is certain that Ottis Toole abducted and murdered his son. So when Hollywood, Fla., Police Chief Chad Wagner announced that the case was closed in 2008, Walsh says it ended almost three decades of misery for his family. John Walsh talks in a frank and fiery interview with The Florida Files about the hurdles in trying to get justice for his son. Still, there are others that doggedly try to prove that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for Adam Walsh's death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • Life and Death of XXXTentacion, Part 1 – Pioneer of a New Sound for Generation Z
    Sep 10 2018
    Not many people in the mainstream had heard of the Broward County rapper known as XXXTentacion before the news of his death broke on June 18, 2018. But at music festivals and in the underground rap scene, Jahseh Onfroy was a music pioneer of a new sound for Generation Z. On a Monday afternoon, a drive in his BMW I-8 sports car to a motorcycle shop with $50,000 in cash in his favorite Louis Vuitton crossbag would end up with the 20 year old murdered in broad daylight in an armed robbery. The Florida Files goes step by step into what happened leading up to the death of XXXTentacions, and looks back at the controversial life of the young rapper. Local 10’s Michelle Solomon, host of The Florida Files, talks to those who were close to the rapper. And, listen to an exclusive interview with the rapper's father.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • Life and Death of XXXTentacion, Part 2 – The Good and the Bad
    Sep 20 2018
    It’s been only weeks since rapper XXXTentacion was murdered outside a motorsports store. On the porch of his $1.4 million house, there’s a makeshift memorial. A big, gold X, and a small rock with a "?" painted on it. On Episode 2, The Florida Files looks at the good and bad of XXXTentacion. Plus, more of the interview with the rapper’s father, Dwayne Onfroy, who provides a window into the Broward rapper’s past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins