John’ s mother, Noreen Gosch , hired private investigators to look into her son’s disappearance. She believes he was kidnapped and sold into a pedophile prostitution ring. She claimed she was visited by her son when she testified during a 1999 pedophile crime organization trial in Nebraska. Authorities initially treated the case as that of a runaway but his parents were adamant that he was abducted or that foul play was involved. Witnesses told authorities that they viewed John talking to an unidentified male in a blue two-tone Ford Fairmunt. 5, 1982, Johnny Gosch woke up before sunrise and left the house with his dachshund, Gretchen, to deliver newspapers in West Des Moines, Iowa. According to Iowa Cold Cases, his father usually went with him, but John David Gosch had decided to stay home that fateful Sunday morning. In the early hours of September 5, 1982, the quiet suburb of West Des Moines, Iowa, was shattered by the disappearance of 12-year-old paperboy Johnny Gosch . What started as a routine day for young Johnny, delivering newspapers with his trusty red wagon, soon turned into one of the most chilling cases of a missing child in American history. Johnny was last seen around 6 a .m. By a friend as they picked up their Sunday newspapers at the paper drop at 42nd Street and Ashworth Road. Minutes later, the friend spotted Johnny talking to a man wearing a baseball cap near 42nd Street and Marcourt Lane. News reports and interviews regarding the unsolved disappearance of Des Moines paperboy Johnny Gosch . Also See: The Johnny Gosch page on Iowa Cold Cases and Johnny Gosch Photos . A few years after Johnny Gosch went missing, the Associated Press was reporting on something troubling — the nearly identical disappearance of another Iowa boy, named Eugene Martin. Martin, says Iowa Cold Cases, was 14 years old when he was reported missing on August 12, 1984. “Who Took Johnny” is a gripping documentary that delves into one of America’ s most infamous cold cases. The film examines the disappearance of Johnny Gosch , a 12-year-old paperboy who vanished from West Des Moines, Iowa in 1982.
John David Gosch Case: A Cold Case That's Heating Up
John' s mother, Noreen Gosch , hired private investigators to look into her son's disappearance. She believes he was kidnapped and sold into a pedophile prostit...
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