This Is What They Don't Want You to Know About John David Gosch

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Johnny Gosch , a 12-year-old paperboy, vanished in 1982, sparking one of America’s most chilling missing child cases. His whereabouts remain unknown. 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. 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. Johnny would become a tragic abstraction, a face on a milk carton, a story that warned other kids away from paper routes and changed the way police handled missing-children cases. The reasons for. John David Gosch was just 12 years old when he vanished from West Des Moines, Iowa in September 1982. He was a smart and popular boy who got along well with his classmates and parents, and no one. His disappearance was a near carbon copy of that of 12-year-old Johnny Gosch , who set out with his dog and his red wagon Sept. 5, 1982, to deliver the Sunday newspaper near his suburban West Des. 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. Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown hair, blue eyes. Gosch has facial freckles. He had a gap between his upper front teeth at the time of his disappearance. Gosch has a horseshoe-shaped scar on his tongue and a birthmark on his left cheek. His nickname is Johnny.