I spoke with retired journalist Frank Santiago in January 2009. Noreen said he'd been involved in the case since the very beginning and she considered him a friend. He took her out to lunch every so often. He felt that there was more than one side to this story...
Johnny Gosch 's dad questions that his ex-wife saw their son in 1997 Des Moines Register, By FRANK SANTIAGO Register Staff Writer
John Gosch, father of missing newspaper carrier Johnny Gosch , said Sunday he is skeptical of a statement by his ex-wife that their son visited her in 1997 at her West Des Moines apartment. "Apparently, she's trying to get more publicity or whatever to get on a talk show so she could go where it's warm," said Gosch, whose marriage to Noreen Gosch ended in 1995. Noreen Gosch, whose disclosure Friday added another unusual twist to an abduction that has had a 16-year history of bizarre turns, said of her ex-husband's reaction, "I don't care." "I was under oath and I told the truth," she said. "My son came to see me and not his father." John Gosch maintained that if his son had returned to the area, as Noreen Gosch said, he likely would have gone to the former couple's West Des Moines home, where John Gosch was living. It was the same house Johnny Gosch had grown up in and left on Sept. 5, 1982, before he was abducted a few blocks away while delivering The Des Moines Sunday Register. Noreen Gosch had moved from the home in 1997, according to John Gosch. "It's time she took a lie detector test," he said. He said he has had no contact with his son since the abduction. Noreen Gosch created a sensation Friday when she maintained in testimony in federal court in Lincoln, Neb., that she had seen her son alive. She appeared as a witness for Paul A. Bonacci, who was suing Larry King, a manager of the defunct Franklin Credit Union in Omaha, whom Bonacci accused of sexually abusing him. Bonacci had claimed he took part in the Gosch abduction. Noreen Gosch plans to meet today with West Des Moines police, with whom she has met on several occasions since the abduction. She said she was "hopeful" the details would be pursued. Said West Des Moines police Sgt. Steve Hoffman, "We really don't know any more at this time than what anybody else knows. We will talk to her and investigate anything that appears to need investigation." Hoffman added, "I'm sure if I were in her shoes I'd be under a lot of stress. From our prospective, there has never been any hard evidence to point in any direction." In an interview Saturday, Noreen Gosch said her son, who would now be 29, came to her apartment early in March, 1997 with another man whose identity was not disclosed to her. She said she immediately recognized the visitor. She said they talked for about an hour or an hour and a half. She said she was told not to disclose the conversation to anyone because her life and her son's life might be in jeopardy if details were known.
Section: Metro Iowa Page: 1M Index Terms: Criminal Investigation ; Missing Person ; Gosch Johnny; Gosch Noreen Dateline: Iowa Record Number: des1999021109470465 Copyright (c) The Des Moines Register. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Gannett Co., Inc. by NewsBank, inc.
February 8, 1999
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Very recently, I said to her that perhaps through an intermediary, or member of her ex-husband's family, a representative of hers might contact him and ask if he'd heard any more from Johnny. Especially since they reportedly hadn't had contact since their divorce in 1993. After all, they had other children together, too.
One of the other Franklin victims had said to me that, in his view, surely Johnny could and would have made contact with a family member if he were still alive...
She responded that "there should never be a representative of Leonard's family brought into this at all. None of them. There are very valid reasons for that statment. LJG is dangerous."
One wonders if that means "litigious" or physically threatening ...
-- Edited by Kevin on Monday 26th of October 2009 02:25:51 AM
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I stayed at the Gosch hobby farm, northwest of DesMoines Iowa for aprx a week, after that I drove to Deadwood South Dakota and stayed with Loren Schmidt's daughter who owns the Bullock Motel.
I NEVER STAYED AT THE GOSCH HOME.
Please get your facts straight.
Thanks
Jimmy
Also b4 I left the hobby farm, LJG took my car keys and tried to keep me there, for what reason I have no idea, when he came back one day I had him at gunpoint demanding my leys back, he complied. and I left.
The reason I stayed there was killing time while Decamp made the contacts to have me stay with Loren Schmidts daughter in Deadwood.
There are many things I discovered while staying at that hobby farm but wont post them here, I have told Noreen what I saw and she can verify it.
No games, just the truth.
-- Edited by Kevin on Monday 26th of October 2009 02:33:23 AM
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Just about 2/12 months ago there was a team of law enforcement agents with Iowa DCI, FBI and West DesMoines PD and the Polk County Sheriff's dept. digging up around the area where John Gosch had his hobby farm northwest of Des Moines. John used to sell seed and used this plot to do his seed/planting tests and store all his personal stuff including a Korean war era jeep. Well in that jeep under the passenger seat (There is a compartment) was a bunch of tapes, tapes that were telephone recordings of Noreen for a period of three months after the AMW story. Now that is strange. Those tapes are now in the hands of the Iowa DCI for review.
This is what I think went down.
Leonard and Noreen were having marital problems. With Leonard's psychotic history I think he hatched a scheme to have his kid taken by an associate in order to make his marriage stronger. You see Johnny was a momma's boy all the way and Leonard was jealous of that. I think the original scheme was to have Johnny go missing and then the father would find him thus making the marriage better.
But it got all out of hand and he paid his associate to "take out the kid" for fear of being found out. Financial records show $5000.00 taken out of his checking account 2 days after the kidnapping. Sept. 07 1982. He has stated in interviews by law enforcement that he used the money to get supplies to help find his son. But no proof of any materials was ever found.
Phone records do indicate a phone call to the Gosch residence at 3:27am Sunday morning lasting 32 seconds and coming from the SouixCity exchange. They dont have the number only the area code due to phone technologies at that time.
As far as the rest, it's all made up by a bunch of right wing christian fundamentalists that were seeking a political seat and this is where John Decamp comes in along with the Nebraska Leadership Confrence and many others. Hell at one tie everybody and their brother cashed in on this case.
There are no satanist/pedophile/secret goverment/shadow government groups responsible, there is no connection to the New World Order and Mind Control. It just is not feasible. Only in Hollywood my friend.
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