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Mom gets photos of son missing for 24 years
CNN ^ | September 1, 2006 | AP

Posted on 09/01/2006 3:37:34 PM PDT by Btrp113Cav

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The mother of a boy abducted 24 years ago said she's bewildered by two photographs left at her front door, apparently showing her son and two other children bound and gagged.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: gannon; gosch; governmentsexrings; iowa; jeffgannon; johnny; johnnygosch; kidnappings; missing; mostevil; pedophiles; perverts; sexrings; sexslavery; westdesmoines
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To: queenkathy

Our neighbor was a victim of horrific sexual abuse. Never told a sole, was an over acheiver, honor society, etc. she started having night terrors when she was a sophmore in college. Everything came out. It was her father that was abusing her, from the time she was 4. You would not believe the crazy things he had told her over the years to keep her quiet. They sound so ridiculous, but when you think of a young child hearing those things over and over, your heart breaks. BTW, she prosecuted her dad, he pled guilty and is in prison now.


101 posted on 09/01/2006 8:27:40 PM PDT by panthermom
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To: SuzyQue

When the brother was kidnapped it tore the whole family apart. When he finally returned to the family he could not adjust, Steven was killed in a motorcycle accident. His younger brother however was arrested for some terrible murders in Yosemite.


102 posted on 09/01/2006 8:29:54 PM PDT by panthermom
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To: All

This is the boy in the middle - he appears to have a scar on the left side of his chin (his left)
103 posted on 09/01/2006 8:37:51 PM PDT by stlnative (WARNING my post is most likely full of poor spelling & bad grammar which are all free of charge!)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

The worst!


104 posted on 09/01/2006 8:40:45 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: bonfire
www.rense.com...

The 'source' pretty much garantees it's BS.

105 posted on 09/01/2006 8:52:14 PM PDT by uglybiker (Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
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To: All

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060831/NEWS/60831027/1001/ciml_central

~BEGIN SNIPPET~

Lt. Jeff Miller of the West Des Moines Police Department said Noreen Gosch received the photos on Sunday and brought them to the police department on Tuesday. Other people connected to the case also have reported receiving copies via anonymous deliveries and the Internet.

~END SNIPPET~


106 posted on 09/01/2006 9:30:49 PM PDT by stlnative (WARNING my post is most likely full of poor spelling & bad grammar which are all free of charge!)
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To: All

The johnnygosch.com website is down due to high traffic volume but a substitute has been set up at:

http://www.ninjaproxy.com/cgiproxy/nph-proxy.pl/010110A/http/www.johnnygosch.com/

You can find the pics there, too.


107 posted on 09/01/2006 9:37:28 PM PDT by ableLight
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To: Rte66

Michael Corbin (Colorado Radio Show Host - A Closer Look) is mentioned in this one. - read the excerpt below - it kinda sounds like another Karr/Tracey story. It is kinda odd that the Karr thing just happened and all of sudden this comes up. This was another big national case.

http://www.dmjuice.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060831/NEWS/60831027/1001/SPORTS0206

Police inspect possible Gosch photos

Corbin said Thursday he has been in contact over the past two years with a man who claims to have been another child kidnapping victim who broke away from a child-sex ring with Gosch. He said the man said his name is Jimmy Gibson and has told him he wants to speak publicly soon about their kidnappings after hiding out for years from abductors.

“In the times that he’s contacted me (via email), he’s never had a consistent email address,” Corbin said in an interview with the Register.


108 posted on 09/01/2006 9:44:49 PM PDT by stlnative (WARNING my post is most likely full of poor spelling & bad grammar which are all free of charge!)
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To: ableLight

From the first photo:

If you enlarge the photo you can see what looks like a black eye and a burn or rub injury just above the waistline on his left side.


109 posted on 09/01/2006 10:00:37 PM PDT by ableLight
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To: ableLight

Also, if you do a side by side and rotate the image so his face is upright, they do appear to be the same kid. Gosch had distinctive freckling on his nose that you can see in the B/W on closeup.


110 posted on 09/01/2006 10:05:29 PM PDT by ableLight
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To: Btrp113Cav
"Gosch believes her son was taken by child pornographers. She told authorities he briefly contacted her in 1997 but feared for his life and declined to give details about where he was. She believes his abductors got him involved in crimes, which is why he is hiding his identity."

That poor mother.

WHY are they harassing her?
111 posted on 09/01/2006 10:11:20 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: stlnative

Thanks. I don't know of the Corbin person, but I know the rest of this story backwards and forwards.

Remember the hoax I told you I got involved with, along with many others, concerning the JBR case? This ties in with it 3 main ways (people-wise).

Sorry, I don't believe one word of any of it. Bush41, Bush43 and Karl Rove would not do any of the things this lying bunch of people have put out there to smear them.

There is an extension of the book which does involve a number of people I *do* know. They got some of that part mostly right, but that's because it's all from court documents -- then they took it off in another direction that was beyond credibility.


112 posted on 09/01/2006 10:25:09 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: Shermy

#24 From your link:

"John and Noreen Gosch divorced in the mid-1990s. Since then, she has hired private investigators to hunt for her son, written a book called "Why Johnny Can't Come Home," and testified in a 1999 federal court case that her son visited her once in 1997. In that case - surrounding sex-ring allegations as part of the Franklin Credit Union scandal - Noreen Gosch testified that Johnny Gosch, then approximately 27 years old, appeared at her door with a man she had never seen before and stayed for more than an hour, detailing his breaking away from a human-trafficking ring."

Very strange!


113 posted on 09/01/2006 10:27:00 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Rte66

I think you're right about the credibility part. I don't think this is part of government pedophile ring; I think he was abducted by a very sick, dark person who is now either dead or is old enough not to care about getting caught. That's why she got the pics on her b/day. It was his sick way of giving her the gift of knowing what happened to her son. I think more will come out later.

I feel sorry for the mother; she's been through a hell I can't imagine.


114 posted on 09/02/2006 7:13:33 AM PDT by ableLight
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To: OldFriend

It was Yosemite.


115 posted on 09/02/2006 8:09:00 AM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: lastchance

Actually, it was Yosemite. I live near there and remember it vividly.


116 posted on 09/02/2006 8:12:08 AM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

Thanks, for the life of me I couldn't remember. Old age creeping up on me!


117 posted on 09/02/2006 10:28:14 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: Btrp113Cav; txrangerette

"wasn't the head of the DHS into pedophilia?"

Btrp113Cav,
My guess is this is the case you're recollecting:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12227765/site/newsweek/

One "Bush-League" goofup at Homeland Security...
NEVER trust national security to Democrats...AND journalists!
Especially one that worked 25 years for TIME!!!!!


118 posted on 09/02/2006 10:49:04 AM PDT by VOA
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To: stlnative

Jimmy Gibson

JG

There seem to be alot of JGs mentioned on this thread. Gives me the creeps.


119 posted on 09/02/2006 11:33:38 AM PDT by katykelly (Iran? Darfur? Why does Europe always send us the bill?)
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

My mistake. So much for late night posting.


120 posted on 09/02/2006 12:52:37 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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