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18ATHE DES MOINES REGISTER II Thursday, July 18, 1991 Gosch: Pedophile ring took Johnny mm 1 Continued from Page One Enjoy the finer points of downtown. .7 ball criminals who don't want to be caught and won't stop at anything to remain free," she said. "I have not slept since I have heard some details this week." One theory about the fate of her son, she said, is that he may have been forced into recruiting other children into pornography. Gosch did not identify any of the four, including the local man. She said he invited the others to the Des Moines area and arranged a meeting at a motel before the abduction Sept.

5, 1982. Large sums of money are believed to have been exchanged, she said. Gosch said the identities of all but one of the four, a man who doesn't live in Iowa, are known. She said she and an investigator, Roy Stephens of Omaha, have been supplying information to West Des Moines police. Stephens provided information to police in Norfolk, last year that helped them crack the kidnapping of Jill Cutshall Aug.

13, 1987. David men was obtained by Stephens from a former prison inmate in Lincoln, who claimed to know about the ring. Stephens has told the family, sources say, that the ex-inmate identified the Des Moines "contact" from a photograph. The suspected contact, said Gosch, has been under suspicion by the family for some time. "From what we know of this informant, he has credibility," she said Gosch said the recent information appears to fit in with other details the family has gathered through the years.

Gosch said Stephens told her the same ring may be involved in other kidnappings in the region, including the suspected abduction of Des Moines Register carrier Eugene Martin, 13, in south Des Moines in 1984, and more recently, that of Jacob Wet-terling in St. Joseph, Minn. Talk Show Comments She said comments Wednesday on a WHO radio talk show about the informant were "unfortunate and may have destroyed all that we have worked toward." "We were not ready with this. It's way too early. We have so many other things that we have to do," she said.

Several breaks have emerged in the cases of the two carriers, who were both delivering the Des Moines Sunday Register. But all of the leads have uncovered no information as to what happened to the youngsters, i Despite a search that included the FBI, state and local police, and tens of thousands of handbills posted across the country, no information has been uncovered to indicate what happened to the two or whether, the cases are connected. Noreen Gosch "Dealing with hardball criminals" Phelps, a native of Perry, was arrested and convicted of that kidnapping. Cutshall hasn't been found. Sources close to the Gosch case said the information about the four 250 Name I jj I jh 60,000 SWflEiWE CLEMIICE the mouth-watering array of fine dining! Parking is free at meters and city ramps on weekends, and at meters on weekdays after 6 p.m.

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