This Shocking Photo Changed Everything In The John David Gosch Case
Its a story that shocked communities and catapulted iowa into the national spotlight, changed state law and forever changed the way parents monitored their childrens. On , johnnys mother received an unmarked envelope at her front door that contained three photographs. The color photo showed three fully clothed, prepubescent boys. Shed been ignored and dismissed, threatened and ridiculed, but noreen gosch kept searching for answers. The loss of johnny changed the way she saw america.
John and noreen gosch in a photo taken in 1984, two years after their son went missing while preparing to delivery is sunday newspaper route. John david gosch, born , was a paperboy in west des moines, iowa, who vanished on the morning of , between 6 and 7 a. m. In one of the pictures, the boy resembling john was wearing sweatpants similar to the pair john had worn when he was abducted. Other people connected the case reported.
