Dear Johnny.....

[Catherine Vincent]

September 5, 2007

JOHNNY
You are loved and missed by all of your family. It is important for you to know that we have tried everything possible to bring resolution to your case, to make it safe for you to live your life. All of the information which we have researched and collected has been given to the FBI, it is in their hands now.....

If nothing is done then we will all know that they did not go forward with it.

My hope is that the latest report saying you are still alive is true and that one day we will be able to see each other again.

Love,

Mom

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TWENTY FIVE YEARS LATER

September 5th, 2007 is the 25th anniversary of the kidnapping of my son Johnny Gosch. It is amazing how such a marking of time can many times still "feel like it was yesterday".

He was kidnapped on September 5th, 1982, while delivering his Des Moines Register Sunday paper. There were a number of witness's to the kidnapping who all saw the men and the car.

After 25 years.... This is what we now know:

1. Johnny was a victim of a human/child trafficking network.

2. He was taken for the purpose of satisfying pedophiles for a profit for those who took him.

3. Reports say he is still alive, living under another identity.... still fearing for his life after escaping from the network a number of years ago.

4. Many changes and progress have taken place since the plight of these missing children has been brought out to the public. This happens only because of the continued work by the parents of the missing and those who are assisting us.

5. Photos sent to me ARE MY SON..... they have all been verified. In addition to those photos I have received hundreds of other photos of children, some featured with pedophiles but all bound and gagged. Those photos have been given to the FBI and we are in hopes they will do something.

6. The work continues on Johnny's case as there has not yet been any resolution.

I want to thank all of the people who have assisted me during these long 25 years. The list is so long, it is impossible to name everyone but you all know who you are and what you have done to contribute. I am most grateful.

Thank you,

Noreen

http://www.johnnygosch.com/

25 years later, Mom persists in search

The disappearance of Johnny Gosch at age 12 has sparked bizarre conspiracy theories.

By LEE ROOD
REGISTER STAFF WRITER

September 5, 2007

If you have lived in Iowa for any length of time, you know the story: Paperboy vanishes before dawn on Sunday, Sept. 5, 1982. Left behind is a wagon filled with papers but no clue as to his whereabouts.

Twenty-five years have passed since then. By now the name once synonymous with milk cartons and missing children is known more for bizarre conspiracy theories that ripple around the country, even the world.

Where are you, Johnny Gosch? West Des Moines police don't know. The FBI here has stopped looking. Still, Noreen Gosch, the mother who clings to hope long after others have let go, continues to believe her son - who would now be 37 - is out there somewhere.

"I have never given up the investigation into all aspects of this kidnapping," Gosch, who is out of town, wrote in an e-mail Tuesday to The Des Moines Register. "Johnny is not forgotten," she wrote.

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http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070905/NEWS/709050372/-1/ENT06

Don't give up Mrs. Gosch. :-(

[question everything]

1. I am not sure

Last year we had several stories here where it was reported that he appeared at her apartment but told her not to call anyone... it was really strange.

[lonestarnot]

2. I remember those.

[Berry Cool]

3. Know what else it's almost the 25th anniversary of?

The Tylenol murders. Which have never been solved.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. I remember that. It's hard to believe they never found out what person or group

laced the tylenol capsules with cyanide. It's scary to think about that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Chicago_Tylenol_murders

[Maddy McCall]

6. Has it really been 25 years?

Wow. I'm getting soooo old.

:cry:

[rsdsharp]

5. I feel badly for Mrs. Gosch

but the fact is she is around the bend. You simply can't hold someone against their will for 25 years, absent the assets of the government which tends to draw attention to the mechanism of secure incarceration.

Johnny is probably dead. But if they haven't killed him by now, they're not going to. The idea that he is alive, and doesn't come home because he fears for his life is just silly. If he's alive, there is some reason he doesn't want to come home.