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Johnny Gosch became one of the first “milk carton kids” after vanishing one Sunday morning in 1982. His mother hasn’t given up looking for him, and his case keeps getting stranger.

The disappearance of 12-year-old Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch 40 years ago remains a mystery. No body has been found. No arrests have been made.

The 1980s were a time of lost innocence in America. Things had been trending that way for a while, of course. The tumultuous social upheavals of the 1960s

Forty years ago, a Des Moines Register paper boy went missing without a trace on Sunday, September 5, between 6 and 7 am. His name was Johnny Gosch.

The disappearance of 12-year-old Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch 40 years ago remains a mystery. No body has been found. No arrests have been made.

The disappearance of 12-year-old Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch 40 years ago remains a mystery. No body has been found. No arrests have been made.