Although it is admittedly difficult to gage height from such a photograph, it seems to me that this boy was no more than the five feet, ninety pounds (if that) that is the average for twelve-year-old boys in the United States according to charts I looked up on the internet. According to a missing children website, Johnny Gosch had been 57 and 140 lbs. Indeed, one puzzling aspect of the case, assuming he was the victim of one or more pedophiles, is that they would single out such a relatively big kid.
If Johnny was abducted, I would guess that his kidnapper must have been a big man or that there had been more than one kidnapper. If they had wanted the boy as part of the organized pedophilia ring that Mrs. Gosch positions as responsible for her sons abduction, it seems strange they would go to the trouble of stalking a kid already so tall for his age as his sinister marketability period would seemed to have been of a rather limited duration, even more so than it would be for smaller kids.
Also, this kid (from the photo where his face can be clearly seen) simply doesnt look all that much like Johnny Gosch to me. The noses don't even look close and the boy on the bed seems darker, as if he might be of Italian heritage or partially so. (He's wearing what looks to be a crucifix around his neck, so I'm going to guess he's Catholic.) Am I the first person to have made these points?
Please correct me if I am wrong...anyone. But I believe the height/weight on his poster is what they believe him to be at age 39, not at the time of his disappearance. Also the jewelry you point out...it's quite shiny and new looking. I would imagine he was made to wear it. Pedo's have warped minds, god knows what they had those children do; so for him to be wearing it only signifies to me that they wanted him to wear it. I doubt that it was his to begin with and that they would be so kind to let him keep it.
:cow:
Maz