I find this hard to believe, but the photo tell it’s own story
Some have said that high ranking politicans have been involved in the kidnapping and that the traces also goes to the White House
What’s to think ?
Why did she not report his appearance immediately?
Why is he ‘approximately’ 27 years old? If he is her son she knows exactly how old he is.
What evidence does she have to support this belief? --* Noreen Gosch, in her book Why Johnny Can’t Come Home and on her website johnnygosch.com, continues to assert that her son is alive and in hiding, and to publicize the notion that an international government conspiracy of Satanists, pedophiles, and pornographers is behind the disappearance of the young paperboy from West Des Moines.*
Sounds like a great big load of horseshit to me.
I suspect that the poor woman has been burdened with more troubles than she can bear, & has developed…problems.
I’m sorry for loss, & her terrible suffering, but I do not believe the White House is involved.
And that’s from a guy who believes that our current Administration has done many terrible things.
This fellow has some interesting takes on the recent happenings in regards to this case.
There is a photo allegedly taken at the time of the kidnapping that is under investigation. And that’s all there appears to be.
You know, if you go through the express checkout at the supermarket things move faster and you’re not tempted to browse through the tabloids. :rolleyes:
I like **Contrapuntal’**s post better than what I was going to say, Bosda’s too, but I’ll say it anyway:
Someone took Johnny Gosch.
*Someone * probably did evil stuff (and IMO more than likely killed him).
If this evil SOB "someone" took a few pictures of Johnny – and gets his jollys from torturing the Mom after all these years (or John Karr-like thinks he’s “helping” her in bizarro-psycho land) – it is sick but actually less surprising/sick than doing what he did in the first place.
Let me build on other’s posts and say though :
If my boy was snatched and I had, rightly or wrongly, convinced myself he was still alive - I can see dreaming this up as a way to bring publicity to the case or
Getting a fuzzy photo of a tied up kid, by A-hole pranksters saying I am 100% sure it is my kid…
I think George Bush kidnapped Johnny, and borrowed a jet from his ANGuard days to fly up and do it.
Wow, I’m impressed! I love conspiracy theories much more than the next guy but tracing it back to the White House is a farther conceptual leap than I would expect. And which administration would this be, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, or Bush Jr? Or are we suspecting some member of the household staff who has been there the past 24 years?
The smart money says the poor kid was raped and murdered, though not necessarily in that order, within 24 hours of his abduction. That’s how these things go in the vast majority of cases.
The promotion of conspiracy theories in which well-known political figures are deeply involved in sordid, usually sexual, abuses of innocents have numerous antecedents. Although I hadn’t seen this particular story before, it is similar in to that described by Cathy O’Brien in her book “Trance Formation of America”, and likewise appears to have some similairities to the stories of David Icke (but, sadly, without Icke’s shape-shifting alien lizards).
Common features of these stories are vast conspiracies in which well-known public figures engage in all sort of deviant practices, usually in groups, so often and with such single-mindedness and enthusasm that one has to wonder how they ever get any work done at all. The stories seem to represent an almost medieval sense of fear and suspicion of those in a position of rule over others, and seem to be a modern update of the witchcraft theme of many fairy tales. They may be entertaining and satisfyingly scary to contemplate, but as with all such conspiracies, the one unsurmountable problem is that so many people must be involved that it would simply be impossible to maintain any sort of cover-up of these activities.
Although, as I said, I hadn’t heard of this case before the OP posted it, among the things that make it immediately questionable are the vague nature of the story, particularly the boy’s supposed brief reappearance (what would be the point, and why did the mother only report it two years later?) Likewise, what would be the point of leaving photographs from the kidnapping at her door more than 15 years after the fact? Lastly, nearly all the reported facts of the case seem to be coming solely from the mother herself.
So, although her son may very well have disappeared in 1982 as reported, that he was kidnapped to be a sex slave for some high political muckety-muck seems unlikely in the extreme. As to why people might make up these kinds of stories, well, they always seem to end up as web sites promoting books, don’t they?
We were discussing this case at work the other day with some of the locals who were around at the time of the incident, what with the new pictures showing up. One of my co-workers was actually a paperboy at the same time as this incident, with a route very close to Gosch’s, and told me that there was a second paperboy who disappeared shortly after Johnny Gosch. However, his case was never as sensational. I can’t remember the name now, does someone know more about this?
I’ve never even heard of this case before, but I just wanted to say that those pictures scare the shit out of me.
I was in high school and lived approximately three blocks from where Johnny picked up his papers (and was supposedly grabbed there). This case is so strange. I’ve followed it for years. The weird part is that it just never seems to go away. Just when it gets out of mind, some new info comes out of the woodwork.
I have to agree with the previous poster. Those pictures scared the crap out of me also. I had two younger brothers at the time, not much older than Gosch. I have a seven year old son now. I can’t blame the mother and some of her strange behavior. I don’t think I would ever be right again if this happened to one of my family.
I’m going to say this slowly: Not. Everything. Has. To. Do. With. The. President. Of. The. United. States. Of. America.
Who are these “some”, anyway?
I actually read some of the links provided. The link to the White House involves “reporter” Jeff Gannon, who is apparantly a gay prostitute, and who somehow managed to get into the press room of the WH on several occasions.
Which makes for a much juicier story, BTW.
A good conspiracy theory should involve aliens or demons.
I read about this case on another message board where Carl Rove was suspected to be involved
It seems you’re in luck, Larry.
(Oh, and Wildfire, it’s Karl Rove).
What was he doing in 1982?
Kidnapping 12 year olds in Iowa and holding the as sex slaves. Haven’t you been paying attention?
(just teasing of course)