The Disappearance of Johnny Gosch - Part Two

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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🎙️ The Devil Within Johnny Gosch: The Final Hours For decades, the story of Johnny Gosch has hovered somewhere between tragedy and conspiracy theory, between grassroots activism and government cover-up. In this final installment, we leave the suburban sidewalks of Iowa and enter murkier territory—an underworld where power protects the powerful, and the line between truth and delusion is dangerously thin. We meet the so-called informants, like Paul Bonacci, who claim to have been trafficked alongside Johnny in a network stretching from Omaha to Washington, D.C. We examine the infamous Franklin Credit Union scandal, the dossiers, the handwritten letters, and the grainy photos that allegedly show Johnny alive and chained. We follow Noreen Gosch through the corridors of Capitol Hill and into late-night meetings with ex-cops, private investigators, and men with things to confess. What emerges is not a resolution—but a reckoning. Because the deeper we go, the clearer it becomes: this isn’t just about one missing boy. It’s about a society that wasn’t ready to believe what it already knew. A mother who refused to stop asking questions. And a case that, forty years later, still hasn’t been officially solved—because solving it might mean admitting the unimaginable. 🕯️ 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 [email protected] 🌐 More at eviocreative.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	It's extraordinary what. People say they saw at Ford's Theater that night. John McSpoof was a
0:35.3	megastar. The American political climate has always been rife with division, but even juxtaposed against
0:42.0	today's polarized environment, it has never been nearly as divided as it was during the Civil
0:48.3	War.
0:49.3	I'm Alec Baldwin.
0:50.7	This is a story that shows how the lines are so often blurred between hero and villain,
0:56.6	immortality and infamy, justice and vengeance, and how in that respect nothing has changed today.
1:04.8	Listen to The Ides of April, starting July 23rd, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:12.6	EEO. EVO.
1:16.6	This series contains adult language and depictions of graphic violence.
1:20.6	Listener discretion is advised.
1:34.0	There's something about a photograph, especially a Polaroid, that feels more honest than it probably should.
1:41.1	Grainy, unfiltered, and immediate, like it bypassed the brand entirely and went straight to the gut.
1:45.0	It's why Baby Boomers still trust Kodak more than CNN.
1:51.2	And it's why when a woman in Florida found a photograph of a boy bound and gagged in the back of a van next to a girl who looked just as terrified.
1:54.8	She didn't call it a prank.
1:56.8	She called it Johnny.
2:00.1	Let's rewind.
2:01.8	But first, welcome back to The Devil Within.
2:04.5	This is The Disappearance of Johnny Gosh, part two.
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