

As she would later reveal, Bishop identified himself as a CIA asset. Įarly in 1984, Noreen was first contacted by a private investigator from the Washington DC area named Paul Bishop. Both the private detectives and FBI came to the conclusion that the boy was indeed Johnny Gosch. The report made its way to the Gosch family's private detectives at the Investigative Research Agency, who checked it out with the FBI. Police initially dismissed the woman's report as a "family situation", but after seeing Johnny Gosch's photograph on TV, the woman recognized him as the boy she had seen and reported it to police again. My name is John David Gosch." before the men dragged him away. A boy who was being chased by two men ran up to a woman and told her "Please, lady, help me.

On March 2, 1983, Johnny Gosch was sighted in a large Southwestern city, later identified as being in Oklahoma. See below for the best overview of all the different witness accounts Main article: Franklin child sex ring Timeline Suspicious activity Though evidence has continued to accumulate supporting Bonacci's disclosures about a high-level pedophile ring, the Johnny Gosch case remains officially unsolved. Bonacci knew so much unreleased information about the Gosch case that both Noreen and her then-husband came to believe Bonacci, but the police dismissed him as a liar, never even interviewing him. His testimony revealed a sinister well-protected pedophile underground responsible for victimizing Johnny along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other children. Then in 1990, the Gosch family got their first major break when Franklin child sex ring victim Paul Bonacci came forward to reveal that he was forced to help kidnap Johnny Gosch. Over the next decade, hundreds of leads poured in, as did a couple credible sightings of Johnny indicating that he was still alive. With the police and FBI being unhelpful, Johnny's mother Noreen Gosch took matters into her own hands, hiring private investigators to pursue the case. On the morning of September 5, 1982, West Des Moines paperboy Johnny Gosch was abducted while on his paper route.
