I have not read all of the posts on this site referring to Johnny Gosch, so perhaps my theories have already been mentioned by others and discussed. I notice that there are two schools of thought regarding who is responsible for Johnny Gosch's disappearance -- either a sex ring or an individual pedophile. There are several reasons why I believe that a very professional and experienced sex ring abducted Johnny Gosch, Eugene Martin and, possibly, Jacob Wetterling. All three boys were Caucasian, had an "all-American" look, were physically attractive, lived in the Midwest region of America, and were around the same age -- pre-puberty. I believe that there is an entity which acts as a procurer of boys for wealthy men who don't want to be seen cruising around in their cars looking for pre-teen boys, so by using this entity, they remain anonymous, are willing to pay a sizable amount of money and they put in an "order" for the specific type of boy they want. I don't think it was any coincidence that all three boys were so similar in appearance and age. Incidentally, I seem to remember that the person who took Jacob Wetterling asked all three boys their ages and Jacob was, apparently, the age he was looking for. Next, none of the three boys have ever been found -- dead or alive. That would indicate that they were abducted and kept somewhere. It seems reasonable, also, that they were perhaps used for pornographic photos or videos to show potential "customers". Once money exchanged hands, the boys were probably delivered to the buyer and they might have been kept by that individual for some time or sold to someone else. Obviously, after a certain age, if these boys were still alive they would no longer be a commodity sought by pedophiles. Would they be released? Possibly, because by that time the boys would have been "groomed" in homosexual acts, might have been used to "initiate" other abducted boys and by the time they reached an age that was no longer desirable to the men who bought them, they would either be too ashamed to return home or would have been brainwashed into remaining a "missing person". I personally do not believe the Franklin story but I am on the fence about Bonacci. I believe that whomever abducted Johnny Gosch was doing so on behalf of a "clearing house" for pedophiles and are either dead now or still abducting boys throughout the country in the same fashion and for the same reason.