Disappearance of Johnny Gosch

On Sunday, September 5, 1982, in the suburb of West Des Moines, Johnny Gosch left home before dawn to begin his paper route.{{cite news|last1=Putman|first1=Eileen|title=Missing Children: We've Finally Begun to Recognize the Hell Their Parents Go Through|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19821123&id=mLZWAAAAIBAJ&pg=3186,2444927|access-date=August 30, 2015|work=The Gainesville Sun|agency=Associated Press|date=November 23, 1982|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309024546/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19821123&id=mLZWAAAAIBAJ&pg=3186,2444927|url-status=live}}{{cite podcast|last=Boudet|first=Mike|title=Episode 5|website=Sword and Scale|date=January 29, 2014|url=http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-5/|access-date=October 10, 2017|archive-date=October 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020000511/http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-5|url-status=live}} Although it was customary for Johnny to awaken his father to help with the route, the boy took only the family's miniature dachshund, Gretchen, with him that morning.{{cite journal|last1=Gosch|first1=Noreen|last2=Tamarkin|first2=Civia|title=An Anguished Mother Refuses to Give Up Hope for the Son Who Vanished Six Years Ago|journal=People|date=October 10, 1988|volume=30|issue=15|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20100155,00.html|access-date=August 30, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924143944/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20100155,00.html|url-status=live}} Other paper carriers for The Des Moines Register would later report having seen Gosch at the paper drop, picking up his newspapers. It was the last sighting of Gosch that can be corroborated by multiple witnesses.

Another paperboy named Mike reported that he observed Gosch talking to a stocky man in a blue two-toned car near the paper drop;"Who Took Johnny," RumuR, Inc. (2014). Documentary film.{{cite news|last1=Cook|first1=Linda|title=Filmmaker: Questions remain in paper carrier's disappearance|url=http://qctimes.com/news/local/filmmaker-questions-remain-in-paper-carrier-s-disappearance/article_0da62a7c-1de4-55bb-bff6-deff486a952d.html|access-date=October 10, 2017|work=Quad-City Times|date=November 20, 2016|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011073622/http://qctimes.com/news/local/filmmaker-questions-remain-in-paper-carrier-s-disappearance/article_0da62a7c-1de4-55bb-bff6-deff486a952d.html|url-status=live}} another witness, John Rossi, saw the man in the blue car talking to Gosch and "thought something was strange."{{cite news |last1=Ricchiardi |first1=Sherry |last2=Santiago |first2=Frank |title=Year of agony for Gosches, lone witness |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21751939/the_des_moines_register/ |access-date=July 11, 2018 |work=The Des Moines Register |date=September 4, 1983 |page=1A, 7A |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=July 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711065655/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21751939/the_des_moines_register/ |url-status=live }} {{free access}} Gosch told Rossi that the man was asking for directions and asked Rossi to help. Rossi looked at the license plate, but could not recall the plate number. He said, "I keep hoping I'll wake up in the middle of the night and see that number on the license plate as distinctly as night and day, but that hasn't happened." Rossi underwent hypnosis and told police some of the numbers and that the plate was from Warren County, Iowa. As Johnny walked a block north, where his route started, a paperboy noticed another man following Gosch. A neighbor heard a door slam, and saw a silver Ford Fairmont speed away northwards from where Johnny's wagon was found.

John and Noreen Gosch, Johnny's parents, began receiving phone calls from customers along their son's route, complaining of undelivered papers.{{cite news|last1=Rosenbaum|first1=Philip|last2=Grace|first2=Nancy|title=Iowa paper boy vanished on route in 1982|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/09/grace.coldcase.gosch/index.html|access-date=August 30, 2015|work=CNN|date=November 10, 2009|archive-date=September 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921044541/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/09/grace.coldcase.gosch/index.html?|url-status=live}} John performed a cursory search of the neighborhood around 6 a.m. He immediately found Johnny's wagon full of newspapers two blocks from their home. The Gosches immediately contacted the West Des Moines police department, and reported Johnny's disappearance. Noreen, in her public statements and her book Why Johnny Can't Come Home, has been critical of what she perceives as a slow reaction time from authorities, and of the policy at the time that Gosch could not be classified as a missing person until 72 hours had passed.{{cite news|last1=Stafford|first1=Margaret|title=Pain, struggle: search for missing son|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19840905&id=M3sgAAAAIBAJ&pg=6831,710111|access-date=August 30, 2015|work=Lewiston Daily Sun|agency=Associated Press|date=September 5, 1984|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308182836/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19840905&id=M3sgAAAAIBAJ&pg=6831,710111|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Ta|first1=Linh|title=Johnny Gosch: An Iowa kidnapping that helped change the nation|url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/09/04/johnny-gosch-kidnapping-west-des-moines-child-abduction-responses/595639001/|access-date=October 10, 2017|work=The Des Moines Register|date=September 5, 2017}} By her estimation, the police did not arrive to take her report for a full 45 minutes.

Initially, the police came to believe that Gosch was a runaway, but later they changed their statement and suggested that Gosch was kidnapped, but they were unable to establish a viable motive.{{cite news|last1=Santiago|first1=Frank|title=Noreen Gosch: I saw Johnny|url=http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/6798176.html|access-date=August 30, 2015|work=The Des Moines Register|date=February 7, 1999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305100428/http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/6798176.html|archive-date=March 5, 2005}} They turned up little evidence and arrested no suspects in connection with the case. A few months after his September 1982 disappearance, Noreen Gosch has said her son was spotted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a boy yelled to a woman for help before being dragged off by two men.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-05-mn-1010-story.html|title=Body Is Found; Lost Paperboy Case Reopened|agency=United Press International|date=April 5, 1990|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=October 8, 2016|archive-date=October 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009185224/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-05/news/mn-1010_1_west-des-moines-police|url-status=live}} Over the years, several private investigators have assisted the Gosches with the search for their son. Among them are Jim Rothstein, a retired New York City police detective{{cite web|title=Johnny Gosch Still Missing|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/02/ng.01.html|publisher=CNN|access-date=October 11, 2017|date=March 2, 2011|archive-date=June 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610133621/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/02/ng.01.html|url-status=live}} and Ted Gunderson, a retired chief of the Los Angeles FBI branch. In 1984, Gosch's photograph appeared alongside that of another Des Moines Register paperboy, Eugene Martin, who had gone missing that year, on milk cartons produced by the Des Moines–based Anderson Erickson Dairy.{{cite web|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/09/04/missing-kids-milk-carton-campaign-outcome/627165001/|title=The missing kids milk carton campaign started in Iowa|last=Ta|first=Linh|website=Des Moines Register|access-date=16 December 2023|date=4 September 2017}} Gosch was among the first missing children who had their plights publicized in this way.{{cite news|last=Santiago|first=Frank|title=Top Iowa story: Missing kids on milk cartons|newspaper=The Des Moines Register|date=20 October 1989|page=3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-juanita-lee-este/11863353/|access-date=16 December 2023|via=newspapers.com}}{{cite news|last1=Susman|first1=Tina|title=Etan Patz case: 6 other missing-child cases that made national news|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-etan-patz-missing-children-20150509-story.html|access-date=August 30, 2015|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 9, 2015|archive-date=October 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002092033/http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-etan-patz-missing-children-20150509-story.html|url-status=live}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Eugene Martin

| image =

| caption =

| birth_name = Eugene Wade Martin

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1970|8|17}}

| birth_place = Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.

| disappeared_date = {{Disappeared date and age|1984|8|12|1970|8|17}}

| disappeared_place = Southwest 12th Street & Highview Drive, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.

| disappeared_status = {{Missing for|1984|8|12}}

| nationality = American

| parents = Janice Martin (mother)
Donald Martin (father)

| relatives = Kim Dellaca (stepsister)
Mike Dellaca (stepbrother)

}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Marc Allen

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| birth_name = Marc James Warren Allen

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1972|5|13}}

| birth_place = Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.

| disappeared_date = {{Disappeared date and age|1986|3|29|1972|5|13}}

| disappeared_place = Emma Ave, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.

| disappeared_status = {{Missing for|1986|3|29}}

| nationality = American

| parents = Nancy Allen (aunt)

| relatives = Chris Allen (brother)

}}

On August 12, 1984, Eugene Martin, another Des Moines-area paperboy, disappeared under similar circumstances.{{cite news |title=Des Moines Man Sought In Boy's Disappearance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/15/us/around-the-nation-de-moines-man-sought-in-boy-s-disappearance.html |work=The New York Times |issue=46137 |volume=133 |date=15 August 1984 |access-date=October 11, 2021 |archive-date=October 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011103832/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/15/us/around-the-nation-de-moines-man-sought-in-boy-s-disappearance.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=Wednesday will be long day for Gosch's|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14328790/johnny_gosch_and_eugene_martin/|access-date=October 11, 2017|work=Sioux City Journal|agency=Associated Press|date=September 3, 1984|pages=3|via=Newspapers.com|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011072456/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14328790/johnny_gosch_and_eugene_martin/|url-status=live}} {{free access}} He went missing while delivering newspapers on the south side of Des Moines.{{cite web|title=Have you seen this child? Eugene Martin|url=http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/601815|publisher=National Center for Missing & Exploited Children|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011073002/http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/601815|url-status=live}}

On March 29, 1986, the day before Easter, then-13-year-old Marc James Warren Allen told his mother he was going to walk to a friend's house down the street. He never arrived at the friend's house and has not been seen since. Media reports initially described Allen as the third Iowa paperboy to go missing in the 1980s, but a detailed piece about Iowa's missing people that appeared in The Des Moines Register on August 18, 2013, claimed that he was not a paperboy in Des Moines.{{cite web | url=https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/marc-allen/ | title=Marc James Warren Allen | Iowa Cold Cases | date=February 16, 2011 | access-date=October 5, 2022 | archive-date=October 5, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005095531/https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/marc-allen/ | url-status=live }} However, Marc Allen's brother would later confirm that he was indeed a paperboy, but not on a route at the time of his disappearance. {{cite podcast|url=https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-first-24-hours/episodes/Into-the-Darkness-e1o8c6j|title=Into the Darkness|work=Missing In America: The First 24 Hours|date=Sep 7, 2023}}

Authorities were unable to prove a connection between the three cases, yet Noreen Gosch says that she was personally informed of the abduction of Eugene Martin a few months in advance by a private investigator who was searching for her son. She was told the kidnapping "would take place the second weekend in August 1984 and it would be a paperboy from the southside of Des Moines."{{cite web|title=Case FAQs|url=http://www.johnnygosch.com/CaseFAQ.htm|publisher=The Johnny Gosch Foundation|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-date=June 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609174832/http://www.johnnygosch.com/CaseFAQ.htm|url-status=dead}}

In 1985, Noreen Gosch received a letter from Robert Herman Meier II, 19, of Saginaw, Michigan. The letter had been signed "Samuel Forbes Dakota". In the letter, Meier stated that he was a guard in a motorcycle club when Gosch's son disappeared in September 1982. According to Meier, Gosch's son was taken as part of a large child-slavery ring operated by the club. According to the FBI, Meier requested from and received $11,000 (about $32,000 in 2023) from the Gosches. Meier additionally requested $100,000 (about $285,000 in 2023) more along with a promise to return their son.{{cite news |title=$50,000 Bail in Fraud Case |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1985/08/17/197298.html?pageNumber=6 |work=The New York Times|volume=134 |issue=46504 |date=17 August 1985}}

Meier was arrested in Buffalo at the Canadian border by FBI agents, and was later charged with fraud by wire. The letter Meier wrote had stated that Gosch's son was sold to a man whom Meier identified as a "high-level drug dealer residing in Mexico City." Despite the accusation of fraud, Noreen Gosch reportedly believed Meier at his word, and later criticized the FBI, stating that the arrest warrant against Meier destroyed her and her husband John's credibility with anyone who would take the couple's offer to pay ransom for their boy.{{cite news |title=Fraud Laid To Man Over Missing Boy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/16/us/fraud-laid-to-man-over-missing-boy.html |work=The New York Times |issue=46503 |volume=134 |date=16 August 1985 |access-date=October 11, 2021 |archive-date=October 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011105332/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/16/us/fraud-laid-to-man-over-missing-boy.html |url-status=live}}

According to Noreen Gosch, one morning in March 1997 she was awakened around 2:30 a.m. by a knock at her apartment door. Waiting outside was Johnny Gosch, now 27, accompanied by an unidentified man. Gosch said she immediately recognized her son, who opened his shirt to reveal a birthmark on his chest. "We talked about an hour or an hour and a half. He was with another man, but I have no idea who the person was. Johnny would look over to the other person for approval to speak," says Gosch. "He didn't say where he is living or where he was going." In a 2005 interview, Gosch said, "The night that he came here, he was wearing jeans and a shirt and had a coat on because it was March. It was cold and his hair was long; it was shoulder-length and it was straight and dyed black." After the visit, she had the FBI create a picture she says looked like Johnny.{{cite news|title=Has Johnny Gosch Been Found?|url=http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=3226392|access-date=October 10, 2017|publisher=KWWL|date=April 18, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050827011531/http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=3226392|archive-date=August 27, 2005}} Gosch self-published a book in 2000 titled Why Johnny Can't Come Home.{{cite web|title=Why Johnny Can't Come Home|url=http://www.johnnygosch.com/book.htm|publisher=The Johnny Gosch Foundation|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-date=January 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200104191846/http://johnnygosch.com/book.htm|url-status=dead}} The book presents her understanding of what her son went through, based on the original research of various private investigators and her son's visit.

On September 1, 2006, Gosch reported that she found photographs left at her front door, some of which she posted on her website. One color photo shows three boys bound and gagged. She says that a black-and-white photo appears to show 12-year-old Johnny Gosch with his mouth gagged, his hands and feet tied, and an apparent human brand on his shoulder. A third photo shows a man, possibly dead, who may have something tied around his neck. Noreen Gosch stated that the man was one of the "perpetrators who molested [my] son".{{cite news|last1=Rood|first1=Lee|title=Ex-investigator: No proof photos aren't of Gosch|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21748876/|access-date=July 10, 2018|work=The Des Moines Register|date=September 22, 2006|pages=1B, 5B|via=Newspapers.com}} {{free access}} Gosch later said the first two photos had originated on a website featuring child pornography. On September 13, an anonymous letter was mailed to Des Moines police.

Gentlemen,

Someone has played a reprehensible joke on a grieving mother. The photo in question is not one of her son but of three boys in Tampa, Florida about 1979–80, challenging each other to an escape contest. There was an investigation concerning that picture, made by the Hillsborough County (FL) Sheriff's Office. No charges were filed, and no wrongdoing was established. The lead detective on the case was named Zalva. This allegation should be easy enough to check out.

Nelson Zalva, who worked for the Hillsborough County, Florida Sheriff's Office in the 1970s, said the details of the letter were true and adds that he also investigated the black-and-white in "1978 or 1979", before Gosch's disappearance.{{cite web|url=http://www.kcci.com/news/9849752/detail.html|title=Probe Over Boys' Photos Continues|date=April 10, 2012|work=KCCI|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312095923/http://www.kcci.com/news/9849752/detail.html|archive-date=March 12, 2007}} "I interviewed the kids, and they said there was no coercion or touching. ... I could never prove a crime," Zalva says.{{cite news|last1=Rood|first1=Lee|title=The Latest Word: Photos Aren't Gosch|work=The Des Moines Register|date=September 13, 2006}} When asked for proof that this was indeed the same photo from the investigation nearly three decades prior, Zalva could not provide any. According to the documentary film Who Took Johnny (2014), only three boys in the pictures were identified by law enforcement, but not the one thought to be Johnny.{{Citation|last=nwoexposing|title=Who Took Johnny? (Johnny Gosch official documentary)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqolp67iAU |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120192616/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqolp67iAU |archive-date=2020-11-20 |url-status=dead|access-date=2018-12-23}} Noreen Gosch still believes the pictures to be of her son.

In 1989, 21-year-old Paul A. Bonacci told his attorney John DeCamp that he had been abducted into a sex ring with Gosch as a teenager and was forced to participate in Gosch's kidnapping. John DeCamp met with Bonacci and believed he was telling the truth. Noreen later met him and said he told her things "he could know only from talking with her son."{{cite news|last1=Burnham|first1=Jeff|title=2 Iowa boys gone but not forgotten|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/anonymous-crime-clipping-mar-20-1992-419150/|access-date=October 11, 2017|work=The Gazette|via=NewspaperArchive.com|date=March 20, 1992|page=1A, 8A|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011130804/https://newspaperarchive.com/anonymous-crime-clipping-mar-20-1992-419150/|url-status=live}} {{free access}} He said that Johnny had a birthmark on his chest, a scar on his tongue and a burn scar on his lower leg; although a description of the birthmark had been widely circulated, information about the scars had not been made public. Bonacci also described a stammer that Johnny had when he was upset. The FBI and local police do not believe that Bonacci is a credible witness in the case and have not interviewed him. His siblings told police Bonacci was at home when Gosch was abducted. In 2023, Bonacci claimed to know about Johnny Gosch's 1997 visit to his mother, and also stated that Gosch had visited him several times.{{cite news |last1=Lake |first1=Thomas |title=An Iowa paperboy disappeared 41 years ago. His mother is still on the case |url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/us/johnny-gosch-missing-iowa-boy-cec-cnnphotos/ |access-date=December 17, 2023 |publisher=CNN.com |date=December 15, 2023 |quote=Bonacci is reluctant to give a formal interview. He's skeptical of reporters... I ask if he thinks Johnny Gosch visited Noreen in 1997. Yes, he says. He knows it happened, because Johnny told him about it shortly thereafter. Bonacci says Johnny has visited him, too. Right here at this house. I ask if Johnny is alive. Yes, he says. As far as he knows, Johnny is alive... Bonacci says he's seen Johnny Gosch 15 or 20 times in all...}} In her 2024 updated edition of Why Johnny Can't Come Home, Noreen states that she believes child pornographers Phillip Paske and John David Norman were responsible for her son's kidnapping.{{Cite book |last=Gosch |first=Noreen |title=Why Johnny Can't Come Home |date=April 15, 2024 |isbn=979-8322924463 |pages=346 |publisher=Johnny Gosch Foundation |language=English}}

The case generated national interest as Noreen Gosch became increasingly vocal about the inadequacy of law enforcement's investigation of missing children cases. She established the Johnny Gosch Foundation in 1982, through which she visited schools and spoke at seminars about the modus operandi of sexual predators. She lobbied for "The Johnny Gosch Bill", state legislation which would mandate an immediate police response to reports of missing children.{{cite news|last1=Poole|first1=Marcia|title=Mother's grief doesn't subside|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14334852/the_sioux_city_journal/|access-date=October 11, 2017|work=Sioux City Journal|date=August 26, 1984|page=B1|via=Newspapers.com|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011130715/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14334852/the_sioux_city_journal/|url-status=live}} {{free access}} The bill became law in Iowa in 1984, and similar or identical laws were later passed in Missouri and seven other states.{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Vanessa|title=Mother of abducted Johnny Gosch: 'I know all too well what it's like'|url=http://thegazette.com/2012/07/18/mother-of-abducted-johnny-gosch-i-know-all-too-well-what-its-like/|access-date=October 11, 2017|work=The Gazette|date=July 18, 2012|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011073148/http://www.thegazette.com/2012/07/18/mother-of-abducted-johnny-gosch-i-know-all-too-well-what-its-like|url-status=live}}

In August 1984, Noreen Gosch testified in Senate hearings on organized crime, speaking about "organized pedophilia" and its presumed role in her son's abduction;{{cite news |last1=Renfro |first1=Paul M. |title=Fear in the Heartland |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/johnny-gosch-eugene-martin-stranger-danger-panic-milk-cartons.html |access-date=December 18, 2023 |work=Slate |date=August 9, 2021 |quote=Her efforts transported her to Capitol Hill, where she testified before an August 1984 Senate committee concerning the “effect of pornography on women and children.” In her prepared statement, Gosch falsely accused the North American Man/Boy Love Association of abducting her son as part of “organized pedophilia operations in this country”—a speech that now feels like an antecedent to the conspiratorial thinking of QAnon.}} according to her, she began receiving death threats.{{cite web|url=https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/johnny-gosch/|title=Johnny Gosch Iowa Cold Cases|date=November 13, 2010 |access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-date=June 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150625192340/https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/johnny-gosch/|url-status=live}} Gosch also testified before the U.S. Department of Justice, which provided $10 million to establish the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Gosch was invited to the White House by President Ronald Reagan for the dedication ceremony.{{cite news |last1=McClatchey |first1=Emma |title=Forty years after the Johnny Gosch disappearance, fear continues to fuel conspiracy theories in Iowa and beyond |url=https://littlevillagemag.com/johnny-gosch-case-40th-anniversary-conspiracy-theories/ |access-date=17 December 2023 |work=Little Village Magazine |date=September 7, 2022 |quote=The Johnny Gosch Bill, co-written by Noreen, was signed into law by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad in July 1984. ... Later that same year, President Reagan invited Noreen Gosch to the opening and dedication ceremony for John and Revé Walsh’s project, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.}}

In 2014, a documentary titled Who Took Johnny was released.{{cite news |last1=Kuhlenbeck |first1=Mike |title=Film examines unsolved case of who took Johnny Gosch |url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/communities/1/01/01/film-examines-unsolved-case-of-who-took-johnny-gosch/2874401/ |access-date=December 28, 2023 |work=Des Moines Register |date=September 13, 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Rood |first1=Lee |title=Fleur to show new Johnny Gosch documentary |url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/readers-watchdog/2015/04/08/fleur-showing-johnny-gosch-documentary/25488959/ |access-date=December 28, 2023 |work=Des Moines Register |date=April 8, 2015}} The film includes interviews with Gosch's parents.

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{{Reflist}}

• Gosch Noreen N. (November 1, 2000). Why Johnny Can't Come Home. Johnny Gosch Foundation. {{ISBN|9780970519504}}

• {{NCMEC|601763|Johnny Gosch}}
• Corbin, Michael. (July 18, 2005). Interview with Noreen Gosch. A Closer Look, show 422 [audio file]. [https://archive.org/details/ACLShow422Gosch]
• Justice for Johnny Gosch Web site. Wayback Machine. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208151449/http://www.justiceforjohnnygosch.com/]

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