Buffalosleuther
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Hi, I'm an (unofficial) private investigator from Buffalo, and I'd like to clear up a few things, regarding Sam Soda. I first got into this case because Sam Soda stayed here in Buffalo for a spell. I asked some of the locals in his old neighborhood about him. Understandably most who knew him had either moved away and/or died off but a couple remembered him. While none of them gave me a smoking gun, they told me he had an evil about him, and couldn't be trusted which is why I became suspicious of him in the first place.There's no evidence whatsoever that Sam Soda had anything to do with any of the abductions.
Sam Soda was a local PI and activist who glommed onto the Gosch case like so many others, initially getting along great with Noreen. And then when they began to disagree (Soda didn't think Johnny was targeted) suddenly he became a suspect in Noreen's eyes - based on nothing. Then you get Paul Bonacci, a child molester and con artist (and his skeezy lawyer DeCamp) who basically rubber-stamps whatever Noreen believes at the time. The same thing happened when Noreen and John divorced a few years later - Noreen began accusing her husband of having been a part of it all and another of the con artists (Jimmy Gibson) began to fabricate tales.
Your entire premise that Noreen turned on Soda because "Soda didn't think Johnny was targeted" is untrue. That's what he said on faded out (where he lied about countless things) but he was singing a completely different tune in real time. He stated both the kids had likely been taken by child pornographers 12-30-84 yet on Faded out laughably tried to say they weren't even abducted by the same person.
Their are many things I don't believe Noreen about, because they lack corroboration but I've changed my mind regarding Soda warning Noreen in advance. Because it is documented that the family was suspicious of Soda, long before Bonacci came on the scene and implicated him.
This is from 1988 at the latest, long before Bonacci came onto the scene
"In June 1984 we got a call from a local man who claimed he had information about Johnny and wanted to help. We met with him and became suspicious because he knew so much about the case. The police started monitoring him. "
". This incident made us feel all the more that our personal safety was now at stake, so with police consent I held a press conference and said we knew who Johnny’s kidnapper was. The local man police had been watching left town and the threats and harassment stopped, a further indication of his involvement. This man is back in Des Moines now. The police can’t prove anything against him, so it is still a waiting game, and it may be that way for years.
An Anguished Mother Refuses to Give Up Hope for the Son Who Vanished Six Years Ago
Noreen later described meeting with Soda in June 1984
when he warned her about the upcoming abduction of another paperboy http://tedgunderson.info/index_htm_...Court-Transcripts-from-Larry-King-Lawsuit.pdf
Furthermore, in perhaps his only true statement on Faded out, he seemed to corroborate Noreen's claim "The local man police had been watching left town" He said he needed to get out of town a few years into the case, and said he went to a farm in Kansas..... but he doesn't farm.
Another reason I'm suspicious of him is, Soda's campaign manager when he ran for office (and eventually was forced to drop out of the race when it was revealed he'd lied about receiving war medals) was a man by the name of Keith Colwell. According to Colwell's daughter, Soda disclosed to him he was in the car when Johnny was kidnapped.
He was also showing off Child *advertiser censored* unashamedly in conferences........ Article clipped from The Des Moines Register
Something I really want to know, is where the hell was he getting this crap from? It shows at the very least, he knew people involved in this stuff.
Without betraying confidences, I've also spoken to a former in law of his who claimed he was a rapist (though the person he was accused of raping was an adult).
I've also spoken to Marc Allen's brother who said Soda tried to abduct him as well!
So with all due respect, it's simply not true that Noreen only became suspicious of him when he started disagreeing with her. They actually shared the same theory regarding Johnny being taken by child pornographers'.
I personally believe Soda is involved in all of the abductions, as does Marc's brother and the aforementioned in laws. He was implicated in Johnny's abduction by no less than four sources, accused of another abduction attempt.... by the sibling of one of the abducted children, Accused by an in law of being a rapist (According to another person, the mafia wanted him dead because he was a "baby raping piece of *advertiser censored* but I've yet to verify this) had access to child *advertiser censored*, and more importantly used to show it publicly around town with no repercussions.
As the saying goes, No smoke without a fire.