Missing Paperboys /// Chapter 5 /// A Need to Kill

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In the eighties in middle America paperboys were disappearing. It started in Iowa and then moved to Nebraska. Kids were plucked off of the street 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. John Joubert confessed to and later was convicted of murdering Danny Joe Eberle and Christopher Walden. Even with a confession Joubert was a man with many secrets. Some he told to investigative reporter Mark Pettit. Mark Pettit is the author of “A Need to Kill,” and he was kind enough to join us in the Garage for a discussion about abduction, murder, and what goes on in the mind of a serial killer.

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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 For our missing paper boy series, we chose to push away much of the noise,
1:29.6	and we focused heavily on telling this story from the perspectives of the experts who worked on these cases,
1:37.2	and later wrote about them in great works of true crime.
1:41.6	There were chapters about both the Des Moines, Iowa cases, and Omaha, Nebraska cases,
1:47.8	and Robert Wrestler's book, Whoever Fights Monsters, and Peter Klysmut's book, FBI Diary,
1:54.7	Profiles of Evil.
1:56.6	We got to know much about Christopher Walden and the Walden family and Harry Trumbias' book
2:02.5	My Life as an FBI Special Agent, Book 2 of the Dark Places series.
2:09.8	And we also had the distinct honor of sitting down with Mark Petit, the man who authored
2:16.1	the highly acclaimed and need to kill,
2:19.0	the life and crimes of John Jupert, Nebraska's most notorious serial child killer,
2:25.3	in which investigative reporter Mark Pettit, details how Jupert, a U.S. Airman, and former Eagle Scout,
2:33.4	terrorized communities in Nebraska and Maine.
2:36.9	We learn about Jupert's homicidal fantasies that began when he was very young.
2:42.8	Jupert told Ressler that one of his first fantasies that he remembers is from when he was just
2:49.1	six or seven of coming up behind his babysitter strangling her
2:53.9	and then eating her until she disappeared in 1983 jupert went on a 116-day killing spree in
3:03.2	Omaha Nebraska murdering two young boys one who was a newspaper carrier.
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