Missing Paperboys /// Chapter 3 /// Boy Scout Killer

About this episode

The episode discusses the abduction of newspaper boys in the early 1980s, focusing on the cases of Johnny Gosch, Danny Joe Eberle, and Christopher Walden.

In the early eighties middle America experienced tragedies that no parent could imagine. 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. The second was Danny Joe Eberle. The third boy didn’t have a paper route at all. Christopher Walden was abducted near his home while walking to school, on December 2, 1983.

People in this episode

Host: TRUE CRIME GARAGE

Topics covered

• missing children
• abduction
• true crime
• 1980s
• newspaper delivery
• parental fears

Keywords

• missing paperboys
• abduction cases
• true crime
• Iowa
• Nebraska
• 1980s
• child safety

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Iowa, Nebraska

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