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The story of Johnny Gosch remains the most shocking and controversial account of child abduction in recent American history. Whether or not one believes all of Noreen’s claims, she was a devoted mother, who experienced incomprehensible grief and never gave up on her son. John David Gosch is a figure who has captivated the public’s attention for decades. His disappearance in 1982 at the age of 12 sparked a widespread search effort and ignited discussions about child abduction and exploitation. To this day, his case remains unsolved, leaving many questions unanswered. Or you can believe Noreen Gosch , who says she saw Johnny years later, very much alive, and talked to him just long enough to know why he had to disappear again. According to “America’s Most Wanted, “the FBI later confirmed that they believe it was Johnny Gosch .” One month later, Noreen Gosch received a phone call. The caller was a boy who said, “Please help me. Please help me. I can’t get away.” Noreen Gosch asked if the boy was okay, and he said he was, although his speech was slurred. Johnny Gosch , a 12-year-old paperboy, vanished in 1982, sparking one of America’s most chilling missing child cases. His whereabouts remain unknown. John and Noreen Gosch only discovered that their son was missing, because their phone started ringing off the hook. Customers were complaining that they had not received their newspapers. All culminating with a jailhouse confession from a man who claimed he knew exactly what happened to Johnny Gosch , because he’s the one who helped kidnap him. On September 5, 1982, Johnny Gosch spoke to a man in a blue car before he began his Sunday paper route. It started when Johnny Gosch ’ s parents got a letter from someone claiming to belong to the motorcycle gang who had kidnapped him. The letter, says The New York Times, claimed that he had been grabbed and sold into slavery as part of a much larger human trafficking ring. 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.