Forty years after the Johnny Gosch disappearance, fear continues to fuel conspiracy theories
Though most crimes against children are committed by people the child knows, the Walsh case helped convince Americans that godless strangers posed the greatest risk. Walsh relayed unsourced, exaggerated statistics about the rates of missing and murdered children in testimony before the U.S. Congress in 1983, claiming the nation is “littered with mutilated, decapitated, raped, strangled children.” Walsh’s rhetoric, echoed
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