Missing Paperboys /// Chapter 3 /// Boy Scout Killer

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 72 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. The first boy gone was Johnny Gosch. The second was Danny Joe Eberle. The third boy didn’t have a paper route at all. Christopher Walden was abducted near his home while walking to school, on December 2, 1983.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The The
0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The This is our missing Paperboy's series.
1:24.6	This is our Missing paperboy series.
1:29.3	Chapter 3, the Boy Scout Killer.
1:32.8	A knot tied tight with practiced hand in a quiet corner of the land.
1:39.8	A leader's badge upon his chest, hiding monsters at unrest.
1:46.2	He taught the arrow of light and truth and smiled upon the face of youth.
1:52.1	By day he served country and town, while planning how to break them down.
1:58.2	With cold patience, he would watch and wait. Then with his knife, he sealed their fate.
2:05.4	A mask of normalcy, he tried to hide, with nothing but darkness left inside. The biter,
2:13.5	the cutter, taking breath. His life, a shadow play with death.
2:19.2	Until the day the killing stopped, the mask of virtue finally dropped.
2:25.0	The scout leader, young and small, was the killer in the dark behind the wall.
2:32.8	This is True Crime Garage.
2:36.0	This is True Crime Garage. returning to Omaha with one case still open.
3:13.2	The murder of Danny Joe Everley was still unsolved.
3:16.7	Now, as we talked about last week, several seasoned FBI agents were already assisting the Sarpie County Sheriff's Office full-time
3:27.1	working the Danny Joe Eberley case. Then on December 2nd, 1983, the phone calls began. And a second
3:37.8	family's world started to collapse. This was a cold but sunny Nebraska morning that
3:43.6	started off with a walk to school. On this day, 12-year-old Christopher Walden, a sixth grader, woke up and
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