The Disappearance of Johnny Gosch- anyone remember this crazy case?

[quote] anyone remember this crazy case?

CNN does as do posters in the below-linked thread.

Johnny himself from this thread also might.

And posters on this thread from 2022 with 104 replies remember.

R1-3 cool. But you believing that is Johnny himself is laughable.

R1-3 = Psychotic troll and thread killer. F&F it

R1 why do you have those saved?

And where are your links for the TIL TUESDAY thread?

R5 that’s his goal. He wants to be the only one around here making threads. He thinks this is a career.

[quote] why do you have those saved?

I don't. I used the broken search function.

[quote] He wants to be the only one around here making threads.

I don't often start threads.

If you lived in Iowa at the time, it was a terrifying time. Kids were disappearing a lot around the country in the late 70s into early 80s. This case sent shivers down everyone in our towns backs. People were scared to let their kids outside alone, something that people weren’t scared about prior.

[quote] And where are your links for the TIL TUESDAY thread?

This thread?

Another Til Tuesday thread.

A short thread about the boyfriend in the Til Tuesday video.

R9 only you’re lying. As if I don’t know who the fuck you are. Who the fuck runs straight to the search function instead of discussing the topic? You’re a fucking lowlife.

Doesn’t ring a bell.

[quote] Who the fuck runs straight to the search function instead of discussing the topic?

I am one of the Mein Fuhrer posters.

What the hell happened to this post?

What is this, West Des Moines?

There's a really good documentary on this (I think it's called "What Happened to Johnny" or something like that). I think it's available on Amazon. Anyway, it goes into detail about some pedophile ring involving some politician in Missouri or Nebraska. And there is a young man who said he was abducted and he takes the camera people to a remote house where he says all the kids were kept. The house is abandoned.

r16 Boo this man

This was a scary time in Iowa. I remember Eugene Martin disappearing also.

I knew a girl named Essie who worked a paper route in 1982 (the same year) in Iowa and she almost got abducted. She was 15 at the time and she ran to one of the doors and pounded hard. Thankfully someone came to the door quick and she was safe.

Even in this day and age it would seem out of place in Iowa. Even the more hostile of us value our safety here. You just don’t expect this to happen. Especially in those days Des Moines was half the size. It’s a large town now but was much smaller in those days.

His mother wrote a book about this

Scary

R19 I think it’s on Netflix

R21 yes, Eugene Martin disappeared from Iowa also, like a year after Johnny and under the same circumstances. His parents were never as vocal as Noreen was about Johnny though. Almost like they were scared to speak.

R23 idk about that. There are tons of missing youths from that area. Omaha to Des Moines was missing tons of kids and teens. Scary times.

Sounds like the mother, poor thing, has been driven to a sort of insanity by it all. And some people have played games with her head.

Those pics that came out of him tied up were terrible.

Just hang around Rehoboth Beach during the season, he goes to Poodle Beach.

r19, the film is called "Who Took Johnny" and right now in the U.S. it's available on Kanopy.

The one that gets me is Steven Stayner. Escapes to save another kid, father can never look at him again, brother becomes serial killer, Steve dies young in car wreck.

R29 That mother is an odd bird and she has the caftans and smoky eyeshadow to back it up.

R33 why couldn't his father look at him?

He was given the name Jeff Gannon and sold to George Bush. Look it up!

Well when you do a deep dive and go down the rabbit holes they’re huge rabbit holes. Things lead back to the government