Missing Paperboys /// Chapter 1 /// Johnny Gosch

About this episode

The episode discusses the mysterious disappearances of newspaper boys in the early 1980s, focusing on the case of Johnny Gosch.

In the early eighties middle America experienced tragedies that no parent could imagine, until it happened for the first time. Newspaper boys were disappearing. They would step out into the dark of the early morning hours to deliver the daily news to their neighborhoods and some of them did not return. It started in Iowa and then moved to Nebraska. Kids were plucked off the street just a few steps into their routes and some have vanished forever. The first boy gone was Johnny Gosch.

People in this episode

Host: TRUE CRIME GARAGE

Topics covered

• missing persons
• true crime
• child abduction
• 1980s
• newspaper delivery

Keywords

• Johnny Gosch
• missing paperboys
• true crime
• abduction
• Iowa
• Nebraska
• 1980s

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Iowa, Nebraska

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