JusticeForAll
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November 12, was Johnny's 40th birthday.
I've heard the runaway theory too, on another website, and I think it's possible but unlikely. Johnny was spotted on his paper route. He talked to other carriers and he was seen folding his papers. He had his paper bag with him, his dog, and I think a wagon. I don't know why he would decide to runaway while delivering papers. If he thought, I'll pretend like I'm going to deliver papers, but really I'm all packed and ready to runaway, then why would he have actually shown up for his route?
If there is another photo of a different kid in the same setting as the first three boys (and Ill take your word for it as I dont want to go wading through them again on her website), it is explained within my last post. Who sent Mrs. Gosch the original photos? Im betting it was the man who took the pictures or another of his kind whom he shared his collection with.
The only person I could think of who would have contact with the paper carriers on a daily basis would be customers on the route. I haven't read what the police did in the initial search, but I assume and hope they looked at every person on the route.
Then again, since Johnny's papers were undelivered that day, maybe it wasn't someone on the route. Were there businesses nearby? A bakery would have people working early. Maybe somebody saw Johnny alone that morning and took a chance. I know there was a church nearby -- somebody from there, maybe?
Witnesses (other carriers) said they saw two men -- a man in a car (this is the man they made a sketch of as a POI) and a man following Johnny on foot. The man in the car asked Johnny for directions. Johnny felt uncomfortable and said, "That guy is weird; I'm going home" (or something like that). Later, another man was seen following Johnny on foot.
I think there could have been more than one person who took Johnny. Like you said, he was a big kid. It would make sense that there was more than one person to snatch him.
Possibly, because some older person associated with the newspaper delivery system was going to help him run away? Perhaps, by picking him up from the route in a car? Refer to my next posting for a potential candidate to be such a person...
Dear Roy,
You think that Johnny Gosch could have been a victim of John Joubert? Joubert was convicted of murdering Ricky Stetson on August 22, 1982 in Maine. Johnny went missing September 5, 1982 in West Des Moines. The only reason why Joubert was later (1983) in Nebraska was because he had afterwards enlisted in the Army, some say to get away from Maine in the wake of the Stetson murder. Why would you place him in Iowa at the time of the Gosch disappearance?
I really have no idea what to believe regarding this case. There are a lot of conspiracies and precious little facts.
Maybe the 3 witnesses are weak. If they are wrong then they have conspired to deceive or were themselves mistaken or some combination of the two.
Without a body or a confession why abandon all hope and write John off? The Basken children have re-emerged after 20 years. They may not have been abducted by strangers but all 4 of them hid successfully all that time and the kids did not contact their parents. If their parents had given up then the news article that outed them would not have been published and the parents may have well gone to their graves in the agony of not knowing.
Steven Stayner (thanks Mr Ed) is another example of why to hope that Gosch returns as well as a reminder to not revictimize those lost children who do find their way back home.
It is certainly not my intent to foment conspiracies. This case is frustrating as a parent and I only hope for a resolution for his family as well as the handful of us who also worry and wonder.
Regarding the kidnapping of Midwestern boys for child prostitution rings, the other day out of the blue my friend told me he was walking through Central Park in 1986 (he was 16 years old at the time), and found some sort of pamphlet lying on a path. When he picked it up he saw that it was a brochure filled with graphic pictures of undressed caucasian boys.
I immediately thought of the conspiracy theory involved with this case when he told me this. Photos of white boys only in the middle of New York City in the mid-80s. Makes you wonder.