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When an editor asked me to write a column sharing how I felt about the attempted abduction of a Waukee fifth-grader a few weeks ago, without even thinking, I agreed. But what he coul...

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Part 2 of a Series. It isn’t a huge leap to believe that missing Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch was kidnapped and forced into the sex trade, says an Iowa police detective overseeing the ...

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Back in July, a 16-year-old Alabama teenager named Donald Marshall boarded a bus after visiting Iowa City. He was scheduled to make a bus connection in Davenport on his way home. He ...

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First in a series. During her 30-year search for her son, Noreen Gosch has been called confrontational, emotional and delusional, all harsh words for a woman living through every par...

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The Iowa Department of Public Safety keeps a database of missing persons throughout Iowa, children and adults alike, going back to 1973. The web site is updated four times each day.The da...

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When Iowa’s Johnny Gosch vanished on Sept. 5, 1982, while delivering the Sunday newspaper in his quiet West Des Moines neighborhood, everything changed – for law enforcement, for the news...

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The mother of an Iowa boy missing since 1982 said she got a “sickening feeling” in the pit of her stomach when she heard news that two eastern Iowa girls had vanished while riding their b...