Missing Paperboys /// Chapter 2 /// Nebraska Nightmare

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the early eighties middle America experienced tragedies that no parent could imagine. Newspaper boys were disappearing. They would step out into the dark of the early morning hours to deliver the daily news to their neighborhoods and some of them did not return. It started in Iowa and then moved to Nebraska. Kids were plucked off the street just a few steps into their routes and some have vanished forever. One year after Johnny Gosch went missing, Danny Joe Eberle was abducted during his early morning paper route.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The The
0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The In September of 1982, 12-year-old paper boy Johnny Gosh disappeared, plucked off the street in the early morning hours and in the early portion of his paper route.
1:36.9	Paperboys were not safe in Des Moines, Iowa.
1:39.9	And months later, almost exactly one year later, another kid vanished from another street.
1:46.7	This time, it was in a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska.
1:50.7	He was the next paper boy, 13-year-old Danny Joe Eberley, vanished from his paper route on a Sunday in September,
2:00.6	under very similar, eerily similar circumstances.
2:06.5	He was carrying the Omaha World Herald. For 65 cents, you can read all the news that the paper
2:14.3	boy can deliver, or for the price of a broken heart and an empty home,
2:20.3	you can stand by the window watching the street and wondering why your little paper boy never
2:26.2	came home. This is True Crime Garage, and this is our look at the missing paperboys.
2:33.3	Chapter 2, Nebraska Nightmare. We started off chapter one by talking about the case of Danny Joe Eberley.
3:10.7	So let's go back to the 18th of September, 1983, Bellevue, Nebraska, just south of Omaha, Nebraska.
3:20.5	And that September day in 1983 was in fact a Sunday. When 13-year-old Danny Joe Eberley got up early,
3:28.1	he headed down to a nearby convenience store to pick up his supply of Sunday newspapers to be
3:35.5	delivered. He rolled the papers and he put the entire load in a delivery bag and on his bicycle,
3:42.7	he went off to get to his route to make the first delivery.
3:47.3	What we would later learn, Captain, is that this boy only made three stops on that delivery.
3:54.2	When some people on that route didn't receive their papers, they started calling
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