Johnny Gosch
John David Gosch (November 12, 1969; disappeared September 5, 1982) was a 12-year-old paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa, when he disappeared without a trace on September 5, 1982. No remains were ever found and the circumstances of Gosch's disappearance remained unexplained. He is presumed to have been kidnapped.
His mother, Noreen Gosch, maintains that Johnny Gosch escaped from his captors and visited her with an unidentified man in March 1997.