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www.sfgate.com.../n/a/2006/09/01/national/a114940D47.DTL
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.
The old photos appear to show 12-year-old Johnny Gosch with his mouth gagged and his hands and feet tied. The boy is wearing the same sweat pants Johnny was wearing when he disappeared while delivering newspapers on the morning of Sept. 5, 1982, his mother said.
"It's like reliving it," Noreen Gosch told The Associated Press on Thursday night. "But the bigger picture is, 'Why are they doing this?'
Originally posted by WyrdeOne
Thanks for posting those.
How strange is it, for this picture to surface this long after the incident? I've never heard of something quite like this happening, a kidnapper taunting the mother of a kidnapped child more than twenty years after the fact.
Very strange...
August 27, 2006
On my birthday... I received a package with the following pictures inside. The first photo is of my son Johnny, shortly after he was kidnapped on Sept. 5th, 1982. He was still wearing the clothing he had on the day he was taken. He is bound and gagged. The second photo is three boys all bound gagged... the boy on the far right is my son, Johnny. We do not have the identity of the other two boys. We are currently working with the police and the National Center for Missing Children in hopes of learning the identity of the other two boys. There are two families who would probably like to have news of their children. If anyone viewing the second photo knows who these boys are, please contact me.
Noreen Gosch
www.johnnygosch.com...
Noreen Gosch testified that Johnny Gosch came to see her in 1997, providing information about his experience, asking for his mother's help and pleading for her to not reveal his visit. Johnny is now 36 years old. After years of suffering tremendous torture and pain at the hands of his captors, being used and abused, he and several others escaped. They have been living in hiding under new identities... they fear for their lives.People ask ... why is it necessary for someone to hide and live this way..... It is simple, Johnny can identify many of the people involved and would be a threat to the very people who took him. He is known as the "chameleon". Why? Because he can so completely change his appearance.He would like to be a part of his family once again but it isn't safe. The people who take these children also do a thorough job of brainwashing. Telling these young children that if they try to resume any kind of life with their families.... they will be killed.
www.johnnygosch.com...
Originally posted by WithoutEqual
The kid on the far right looks nothing like him, my moneys on the kid on the far left. Same eyes etc.
Originally posted by MacDonagh
The brand thing intrigues me I must admit. It almost looks like a Satan star of David thingy. Maybe the Owl folk kidnapped them?
Published: August 15, 1984
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is searching nationwide for a man described as a ''loner'' in the disappearance of a newspaper carrier. Federal agents said today that there might be ''a definite connection'' to the disappearance of another paper carrier in Des Moines in 1982.
Eugene Martin, whose 14th birthday is Friday, vanished early Sunday as he was about to deliver copies of The Des Moines Register. A fellow newsboy, Johnny Gosch, disappeared from his route on Sept. 5, 1982, and has not been heard from since.
The authorities said they were treating the Martin case as a kidnapping and had issued a nationwide bulletin for a man described as between 30 and 40 years old, 5 feet, 9 inches, clean shaven and with a medium build.
query.nytimes.com...
Originally posted by anxietydisorder
Originally posted by MacDonagh
The brand thing intrigues me I must admit. It almost looks like a Satan star of David thingy. Maybe the Owl folk kidnapped them?
I originally thought the brand was the Star Of David and Gosch is a German last name, but that symbol has 6 points.
This brands seems to be a five pointed pentagram, or an X with a line under it.
Can anyone enhance the picture to make the area more clear ?