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Iowa paper boy vanished on route!

When the Sunday edition of the Des Moines Register came off the presses, the front page headlines included: "USDA Focus Shifts Back to Farmers"; "Video Recorders Let Viewers 'Beat the Clock,' Spark TV Boom"; and "China Offers Accord with Soviet Union."

 

Little did the newspaper's editors realize that one of the biggest stories in Iowa's history was about to unfold and that the central figure would be a 12-year-old Register paperboy named Johnny Gosch.

 

Gosch, on the job just over a year, vanished while on his paper route.

 

His mother, Noreen Gosch, says Johnny never delivered a late paper, and had a perfect service award from the Register. He used part of his earnings to buy a motor dirt bike.

 

He set out at 5:45 a.m., reportedly with his dachshund, on daily rounds. But suspicion arose two hours later when one of Johnny's customers called his parents to say the paper had not been delivered.

 

Leonard John Gosch, Johnny's father, told his wife to call police, and went looking for the boy. He soon found Johnny's red wagon, just two blocks from their West Des Moines home. It was full of newspapers and, according to the police report, the father delivered them.

 

We discuss this tragedy. :'( Poor kid.

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