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Investigator: Gosch not shown in photos REGISTER STAFF WRITER
October 18, 2006
A Florida investigator told police this week that he interviewed one of the now-grown youths in decades-old photos that surfaced recently, and the man disproved theories that one of the youths pictured was Johnny Gosch.
"He said they were all from the same neighborhood in north Hillsborough County," said Nelson Zalva, an investigator for the Florida state attorney's office.
However, Noreen Gosch said the investigator was lying - and that she has another photo of her son that proves it.
"I didn't give it to police because I can see what's going on. And there are more where that came from," said Gosch, whose son disappeared from his West Des Moines neighborhood in 1982.
Noreen Gosch told The Des Moines Register in late August that several photos had been placed at her doorstep, and that she "absolutely" believed the photos contained images of her son shortly after he vanished.
Zalva, a former sheriff's detective in Tampa, Fla., later told West Des Moines police he remembered the photos from a suspected pedophilia case he investigated in 1978 or 1979.
An anonymous letter sent to West Des Moines police from Tampa originally led authorities to Zalva. A second one sent more recently tipped them to the identities of the three boys. West Des Moines police sent the second letter to Zalva, who said he tracked down one of the people identified in the second letter.
Zalva said he talked to the man on Monday, who recalled that the photos of him and the two other youths were taken by a man in their Tampa neighborhood.
"He said the guy tied him up as an escape contest. He gave them fireworks in return," Zalva said, adding that such gifts are not unusual from pedophiles seeking to groom potential victims. The man who took the photos was never charged, because Zalva could not prove anything criminally improper took place.
Zalva said the now-40-year-old man said he did not want to be identified publicly.
Zalva said he believes both letters were written by the man who originally took the pictures. He said he is trying to locate the other two youths who were identified in the second anonymous letter.
However, Gosch said, she talked to the parents of the two other youths in the photos, and she knows about the circumstances of how they were taken. She said the parents contacted her after she posted the photos on her Web site, and they asked her to take them down.
Gosch said she has at least one more new photo of her son that she has not given to police, because she doesn't trust their ability to investigate. She said she expects to receive more photos soon as she continues with her own investigation into Johnny's disappearance.
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