Thanks, Insguru. Given time and/or money I’m thinking I want to slowly accumulate some news articles, particularly from between 1983 and 1986, since these years seem to have been the height of interest regarding the Gosch case. Understandable given the Martin disappearance at this time.
See, the devil is always in the details, and maybe I’m gnitpicking, but that’s what former attorneys sometimes do. Also, my gnitpicking may or may not have any impact at all on any speculations concerning what actually happened to JG or EM. For all any of us know, everything NG believes could be the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you (insert name). But here goes anyway.
I notice that on the AMW website, there’s a reference to the 1988 letter supposedly received by the Gosches, with an Idaho postmark. I suppose the location makes sense if at one time he were in fact in Colorado; Idaho isn’t that far away as far as I know. Never been there. Now, obviously none of us have seen the letter, or at least I’m guessing, so we’re getting this info secondhand. But in the letter, supposedly written by JG, he refers to the March 1983 incident — an incident which the website claims was not made public.
Maybe this isn’t a critical mistake, but the fact remains that it was made available to the public. I had Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw when I worked in the court system in NYC, and at one time I had a whole Gosch file because I did some independent research. I know there were at least two articles from one of the Chicago papers from about March of 1984. The main focus at the time was on the three phone calls the Gosches allegedly received from their son on 2/22/84. Without going into whether these calls were hoaxes, the article also referenced the March 1983 incident in Oklahoma. So it was made public. Again, a small discrepancy. I’m not purposely disparaging NG, nor am I even trying to do so. Just trying to be as reptilian and objective as I possibly can and point out the inconsistencies as I personally see them. Make of them what you will. I don’t know what to do myself yet.
And here’s something else. I happened across an article from the Cansas City Star dated about April 4 or 5, 1998, as I recall it now. I don’t have the article on file anymore; lots of stuff happened recently and a lot of my old files are lost for all time. But my memory is pretty good. Anyway, the article talked about a radio interview with NG, in which she claimed she supposedly had info that yes, her son had in fact escaped from a pedo ring of some sort, and that yes, this happened in Sept. of ’87. No reference was ever made therein, at least to my recollection, of a March ’97 visit. And at the end of the show, NG broadcast a message to her son letting him know she was still looking for him and loved him. Going back to the interview for a moment, she also claimed that she had info that he had married and was the father of a baby. I find it interesting that nothing more was mentioned about this detail, particularly, as I recall, at the Feb. 5, 1999 hearing in which she talked, finally, about the visit she had had with her son in 3/97. It’s just an interesting little wrinkle. Or not. Interesting to me, anyway. Any takers?
I will say, in all fairness, that the things that make me believe Bonacci and this Gibson person are credible in terms of their allegations of having known JG at one time is the fact that they seemed to have quite a bit of personal knowledge about him. I.e., he did yoga. He had a stutter. He had 37 customers. He had this birthmark or that scar. To me the more compelling is the stutter, the customers and the yoga. If, again, I have time, I’d love to see if I can find some rather old clips, articles, etc., to see if any of this info may have come out prior to 1989, when Bonacci claimed to have had a part in JG’s abduction. Was it ’89? Because if some of these more personal things were made available via news clippings or whatnot, it would have been relatively easy for someone to latch onto the Gosch case in an attempt to get some attention from the national media. I’m not saying it did happen that way; I’m saying it’s a possibility. I want to avoid any fights. My opinion is that these things have to be considered.
I’m also aware that there were a few television programs and news clippings that did focus on the Gosch case back in the ‘80s. NG and Gosch Sr. were together in some of those. Has anyone ever seen any of these, and does anyone have any thoughts on the visuals, i.e., Gosch Sr.’s body language or how the couple was reacting to each other? My running lights don’t work, so I’d love some opinion on this if anyone has it.
And where in the world is this Emilio, the guy who supposedly did most of the deed? Didn’t anyone have the idea of finding him, particularly after the AMW broadcasts, or did law enforcement simply dismiss the whole thing? Interesting.
Finally, Roy, are you referring to the joubert angle? It’s certainly something to consider, for again the Gosch and Martin cases could be related only coincidentally. Joubert could have been in Iowa. The one problem I have with this is the supposed evidence that JG was alive for some time. Sounds like Joubert was a serial killer, and besides, we know he didn’t do the Martin deal.
Speaking of same, I just wonder what EM’s father makes of all this business. If I weren’t sure I’d be picking at old wounds and seriously hurting someone, I’d just simply call the guy up and ask him what he’s learned about his son, independent of the Gosch matter. I don’t believe any of this was necessarily done. Could reveal something no one has bothered to look at, and it could yield a solution.
Probably the safest bet thus far would be to call this Richard Gibson, the father of the grown-up Jimmy who got caught up in this same ring with Gosch and Martin et al. If I ever get the courage to do so, I just might find a way to broach the topic with him in a phone call. Again, he may have some valuable insight on all this. Reason I haven’t done any of this is that I’m afraid of getting my nose bitten off for being — err — too nosy? And I’m not even gonna touch Gosch Sr. That’s way too hot to handle.
Anyway, as it all stands now, I doubt we’ll ever know the truth about any of this. What I do know is that JG and EM do have my best thoughts, and I hope that wherever they are, if alive, they’ve found a measure of peace. If dead, which I’m almost certain they are by now, I hope they’ve found peace in whatever afterlife exists.
“We all have choices, and that’s the cold hard truth.”==George Jones
