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The Devil Within

The Disappearance of Johnny Gosch - Part One

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.3176 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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🎧️ The Devil Within Johnny Gosch: The Vanishing Boy On the morning of September 5, 1982, twelve-year-old Johnny Gosch vanished while delivering newspapers in West Des Moines, Iowa. Within hours, his red wagon was found abandoned. Within days, so was any sense of order. This is where it begins: a quiet suburban neighborhood, a missing paperboy, and a mother who refused to stay silent. In the first half of our series, we trace the immediate aftermath of Johnny’s disappearance—the police missteps, the media silence, and the moment Noreen Gosch stopped waiting for someone else to act. But this isn’t just a missing persons case. It quickly mutates into something stranger: rumors of child pornography rings, secret government cover-ups, and a series of whistleblowers who all seem to die under mysterious circumstances. Noreen doesn’t just want answers. She wants names. And if the system won’t give them to her, she’ll start naming names herself. These are the early days of the Johnny Gosch case—before the public knew what to believe, before the word "conspiracy" became shorthand for delusion, and before the rest of the country realized that something deeply wrong had taken root in the American heartland. 🔭 The Devil Within is a narrative podcast from Evio Creative, written and hosted by Branden Morgan. Sound design by Bellaire Studios. 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows. 📸 Follow us on Instagram: @thedevilwithinpod (https://instagram.com/thedevilwithinpod) 📨 Have a theory? A lead? A story of your own? Email the show at info@eviocreative.com 🌐 More at eviocreative.com (https://eviocreative.com/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This series contains adult language and depictions of graphic violence.

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Listener discretion is advised.

1:36.9

It was still dark that morning in West Des Moines, Iowa.

1:41.2

Not the deep, heavy dark of midnight, the kind of dark that knows what it is, but that

1:46.7

weaker, more uncertain darkness that arrives just before dawn, unsure whether it should stay

1:53.2

or make room for the sun. Somewhere between 5.30 and 6 a.m. on September 5th, 1982,

2:03.7

Johnny Gosh stepped out into that darkness with a red wagon and a canvas sack of newspapers. He was 12 years old. There's something inherently American

2:12.8

about a boy delivering newspapers at the crack of dawn, like an oil painting of Norman Rockwell's childhood

2:19.0

if you swapped the oil for corn syrup and the optimism for slow rotting dread.

2:26.3

And that's the problem with nostalgia. It always seems to skip the parts where the paper boy

2:33.0

vanishes without a trace.

2:36.4

But Johnny didn't just disappear.

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