# The bizarre case of Johnny Gosch

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bizarre-case-of-johnny-gosch/371313>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 3, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bizarre-case-of-johnny-gosch/371313 "2006-09-03T21:24:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bizarre-case-of-johnny-gosch/371313/41 "2006-09-16T02:01:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Wildfire\*\*MM]  
I read about this case on another message board where Carl Rove was suspected to be involved  
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He’d be my top suspect. I have trouble with the notion that Bush could outwit a 12-year-old boy of normal intelligence.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bizarre-case-of-johnny-gosch/371313/42 "2006-09-16T02:12:11Z")

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[QUOTE=Jackmannii]  
[Mystery solved.](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2429828)

But this doesn’t let George Bush, the Rastafarians and the Israel Lobby off the hook. Oh no sirree bob. 😕  
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The story you link to is actually more of a puzzler than the Glosch disappearance. To wit:

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> Zalva said his investigation never resulted in an arrest because the children in the photos never admitted that the suspect touched them inappropriately. He said the boys in the photos had voluntarily posed for the photos, but he couldn’t recall why.

So, some guy rounded up a bunch of kids, photographed them bound and gagged, the cops knew who did it but didn’t prosecute because the kids wouldn’t admit they’d been touched inappropriately? And the cop couldn’t remember why the kids agreed to it? So they just dropped it? WTF?

Y’know, people do tie each other up under fairly innocuous circumstances – church camps, sorority and frat initiations, goofing around at the dorm, that kind of thing … but generally, there’s a crowd of people involved, it’s not just one person as Zalva seems to be saying. What the hell kind of cops they got out there in Iowa?

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bizarre-case-of-johnny-gosch/371313/43 "2006-09-16T02:14:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Lemur866]  
Nice of you to retract. But not before you managed to smear Karl Rove with this ridiculous made-up story. Don’t you feel even a little bit of shame for that? Or is Karl Rove so evil that it doesn’t matter?

I want you to get down on your knees and beg Karl Rove for forgiveness. Alternatively, undertake to stop posting malicious slanderous false accusations of public figures you don’t like. Deal?  
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Actually Karl Rove IS so evil that it doesn’t matter.

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**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bizarre-case-of-johnny-gosch/371313/44 "2006-09-16T02:49:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold]  
It seems you’re in luck, Larry.

(Oh, and Wildfire, it’s _K_arl Rove).  
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Karl Rove is neither a demon nor an alien, he’s the Lord of all Evil – get your Hierachy in order man! 😉

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