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John David Gosch , a 12-year-old boy, disappeared on September 5, 1982, while on his paper route in West Des Moines, Iowa. His mysterious disappearance has captivated the nation and sparked numerous theories and speculation about what may have happened to him. On Sunday, September 5, 1982, John Gosch started getting calls at the family’s west Des Moine home from neighbors, saying that they were concerned because Johnny hadn’t delivered their morning newspaper yet. On September 5, 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch woke up early to deliver newspapers in his West Des Moines, Iowa neighborhood. His fellow paperboys spotted him at around 6 a.m. With his wagon full of deliveries not far from his house — but Gosch never made it home. Johnny Gosch disappeared in the early hours of September 5, 1982 on his paper route. Witnesses saw Johnny at a paper drop, where he was picking up his newspapers for delivery. Filmmaker David Beilinson, of New York, doesn’t have all the answers. In his film “Who Took Johnny?” (available on DVD, Netflix, Amazon and iTunes) he addresses many of the questions people. In 1989, 21-year-old Paul A. Bonacci told his attorney John DeCamp that he had been abducted into a sex ring with Gosch as a teenager and was forced to participate in Gosch ’ s kidnapping. John DeCamp met with Bonacci and believed he was telling the truth. This article tells the controversial and tragic story of Johnny Gosch , a young boy who was kidnapped in 1982. His mother, Noreen Gosch, believed he was abducted into a satanic sex slave operation and never gave up hope of finding him. The unsolved case of Johnny Gosch , a West Des Moines paperboy, transformed missing person investigations and eroded confidence in child safety.