Ten-year-old John David Gosch , affectionately known as Johnny, was abducted while delivering newspapers in his West Des Moines, Iowa neighborhood. His disappearance immediately captivated the nation, igniting a massive search effort involving local law enforcement, the FBI, and countless volunteers. As the years have passed, John David Gosch ’ s case has remained a haunting mystery, and his disappearance has had a lasting impact on the community. The search for answers continues, and his family remains hopeful that one day they will finally have the answers they have been seeking for so long. 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. This was very unlike his son. John got in his car and drove down the street to a nearby corner, where he saw Johnny’s red wagon. In March 1983, a 12-year-old boy matching Johnny’s description approached a woman leaving a store in Oklahoma. The boy said to her, “I’m John David Gosch . Please help me.” Two men came to the boy and led him away. In 1982, John David Gosch was abducted while delivering newspapers. More than 30 years later, he is still missing. John David Gosch – known as Johnny – disappeared in 1982 aged just 12 while working as a paper boy, having vanished while completing his paper round. While most accept he was kidnapped, accounts of Johnny reappearing and strange events in the case mean that there are many unanswered questions. Johns mother , Noreen Gosch believes that John was sold into a prostitution ring after his abduction. When she was at a 1999 pedophile crime organization trial in Nebraska, she claimed that she had been visited by her son in March of 1997. On this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we do a true crime dive and look at the case of a missing paper boy named John Gosch . This one starts a simple missing person case and then gets pretty strange, delving into child sex trafficking, a mysterious man named Sam Soda, and a possible connection to the infamous Franklin Child Prostitution Ring. 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.
John David Gosch's Shocking Secret: The Truth Revealed
Ten-year-old John David Gosch , affectionately known as Johnny, was abducted while delivering newspapers in his West Des Moines, Iowa neighborhood. His disappea...
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