Episode 39- Johnny Gosch · Part III — “Networks, Narratives, and the Open File”

The map on the wall is crowded: arrows, names, and theories that try to connect Johnny’s disappearance to something bigger. In Part III, we step through those rooms one by one—the organized-ring narrative, claims of institutional cover-up, links proposed to other Des Moines cases, and the photographs and papers that seemed to promise certainty—and ask what survives contact with the record. Along the way, we translate how cold-case work actually moves today: rebuilding the corner-minute timeline, “vehicle archaeology,” careful re-interviews, digitizing old lead cards, and what would genuinely shift the case’s posture now. No appeals, no shortcuts—just the difference between stories that explain and evidence that endures.

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