Cappuccino
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I agree with LE not wanting to solve the case, in fact, from Noreen's book the police did not seem interested in investigating a missing Johnny. It wasn't until another boy went missing that LE perked up their ears and launched a full investigation, which I believe was Eugene Martin's case, and that still has yet to be solved. I am not one to be a conspiracy theorist but I wonder if LE ever had any potential suspects or any leads but they never shared them with Noreen or the public due to lack of evidence, or perhaps it was someone in LE or related to LE that took Johnny. One has to go back to the begining of this case and read the eyewitness accounts of a man asking Johnny for directions? Either this was a ruse to get Johnny into the car or the man really was lost, but decided to abduct Johnny. Which brings me to, could this have been a local man that 'watched' Johnny and decided since he was alone to abduct him? Or was this all random? If my recollection is correct, Johnny's dad went with him on the paper route on a regular basis, except for that day. Which this tells me that whoever abducted Johnny was most likely watching him for longer than just that 1 day he went missing and therefore, was a local.
I think somebody was watching the paper boys in that area generally, not just Johnny Gosch. It was the same story with Eugene - he was always accompanied by his older brother, but the night before Eugene disappeared his brother went to a party and overslept the next morning, so Eugene went out alone. And the very first time he went out alone he disappeared.
I'd be looking for someone who lived on the paper route, or even connected with the employment of the paper boys.
Child traffickers and paedophile rings are usually part of larger organised crime networks, and people like that don't need to resort to anything as risky as snatching paper boys. They have access to street children from poorer countries, children whose parents sell them, children whose parents are part of the group, and runaways.