Speaker 1: This week's episode deals with disturbing themes of child sexual assault.
Speaker 1: Parental discretion is advised. You're listening to part two of Unexplained,
Speaker 1: Season six, episode twenty five. Once There was a Way.
Speaker 1: It was seven fifteen on the morning of Sunday, August twelfth,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, when Don Martin received a call at
Speaker 1: his home on Frasier Street in southern Des Moines from
Speaker 1: the route manager of his son Eugene's paper round. The
Speaker 1: manager wanted to know if the thirteen year old Eugene
Speaker 1: was at home, but Don didn't understand. Eugene Orgeanne as
Speaker 1: his family called him, wasn't due back from his root
Speaker 1: for another half hour or so. But that's just the thing,
Speaker 1: explained the manager. He wasn't on his route. His papers
Speaker 1: were still on the sidewalk, all stacked up, waiting to
Speaker 1: be taken away for delivery. Strangely, he added, Eugene's bag
Speaker 1: was next to it, with ten of the papers already
Speaker 1: tucked inside, but there was no sign of Eugene. Don
Speaker 1: felt his mouth go a little dry. As a Des
Speaker 1: Moines resident, he knew all too well about the story
Speaker 1: of the young missing newspaper deliverer. Johnny Gosh, doing his
Speaker 1: best to ignore the rising, sickening feeling in his stomach,
Speaker 1: He assured the manager that his son would be back
Speaker 1: soon to finish the job. But thirty minutes later and
Speaker 1: Eugene's bag and stack of papers was still out on
Speaker 1: the sidewalk, while Eugene was nowhere to be found. Frasier Street,
Speaker 1: where Eugene lived with his father Dawn and stepmother Sue,
Speaker 1: was barely a ten minute walk from the corner of
Speaker 1: Southwest fourteenth and high View Drive, where his papers were located.
Speaker 1: There was just no way he would have disappeared without
Speaker 1: telling anyone, and if he had gone home for any reason,
Speaker 1: he would have showed up by then. Deep down, Dawn
Speaker 1: knew something terrible had happened. By midday, the Des Moines
Speaker 1: Police were notified that yet another Des Moines Register paper
Speaker 1: carrier was missing, and in circumstances all too familiar for
Speaker 1: everybody's comfort. This time, however, in light of the Johnny
Speaker 1: Gosh case, the Des Moines Police immediately sprang into action
Speaker 1: on the assumption that Eugene was not simply missing, but
Speaker 1: had been the victim of a crime. Statements quickly gathered
Speaker 1: from Eugene's fellow carriers only served to exacerbate their worst fears.
Speaker 1: Like Johnny Gosh, Eugene had been seen talking to an
Speaker 1: unknown man shortly before he disappeared. The man was described
Speaker 1: as being somewhere between thirty to forty years old, between
Speaker 1: five ft nine and six feet tall, and being clean
Speaker 1: shaven with a generally neat appearance. Eugene was said to
Speaker 1: have spoken to the man sometime around five twenty am,
Speaker 1: when it was still dark. Some said the man appeared
Speaker 1: to be the owner of a green Chevrolet Malibu, Others
Speaker 1: that he had put his arms on Eugene at one point,
Speaker 1: while some said that the two had conversed in a
Speaker 1: cordial manner, almost as though they knew each other. For
Speaker 1: a city still reeling from the mystery of what happened
Speaker 1: to Johnny Gosh, it wasn't long before most people heard
Speaker 1: the news about Eugene Martin two. By Sunday afternoon, Des
Speaker 1: Moines police had been joined by over a hundred volunteers
Speaker 1: in their search for Eugene, while all emergency service personnel
Speaker 1: were instructed to look out for him too. Even officers
Speaker 1: who were otherwise engaged used any spare time between callouts
Speaker 1: to aid in the search, friends were contacted and any
Speaker 1: favorite hangouts checked and double checked, while every street in
Speaker 1: the surrounding area was searched over and over again, and
Speaker 1: so too was Denman Woods, water Work Park and Gray's Lake.
Speaker 1: But by the end of that first day the search
Speaker 1: had yielded nothing. On Monday, a man came forward claiming
Speaker 1: to have seen a young boy on the Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: who looked just like Eugene, riding in the back of
Speaker 1: a car close to Southwest fourteenth and Indianola Avenue, not
Speaker 1: far from where Eugene was last seen, who looked to
Speaker 1: have been beaten around the face, but without any details
Speaker 1: of the car, the sighting was useless. Before long, one
Speaker 1: day of Eugene missing turned into two and then three.
Speaker 1: The Friday after Eugene's disappearance was his fourteenth birthday. For
Speaker 1: Eugene's parents, Don and Janice, who lived on the other
Speaker 1: side of town, it was the loneliest of days. After
Speaker 1: another two weeks of looking, with police by then working
Speaker 1: alongside some of the FBI's finest, neither Eugene nor any
Speaker 1: substantial clue as to where he'd gone had been found
Speaker 1: On August twenty eighth, volunteers who continued looking for him
Speaker 1: every day, numbering in their hundreds at the weekend, were
Speaker 1: politely asked to stand down. Just as it was with
Speaker 1: Johnny Gosh, a fund had been set up buffering money
Speaker 1: in exchange for information leading to Eugene's whereabouts, but also
Speaker 1: as it was for Johnny, despite growing to almost a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in size, no one was able to
Speaker 1: provide the relevant information. In October, a man contacted police
Speaker 1: to say he'd seen someone carrying a limp looking body,
Speaker 1: possibly that of a teenage boy, under a bridge on
Speaker 1: Highway to The bridge runs from east to west about
Speaker 1: forty miles south of Des Moines and is located about
Speaker 1: a mile away from a well known fishing shack. However,
Speaker 1: the area was thoroughly searched and nothing was found. When
Speaker 1: self described psychic Evelyn Quick later claim aim she had
Speaker 1: a vision of Eugene's body near a body of water
Speaker 1: and some kind of shack, police return to the bridge
Speaker 1: to search the area for a second time, but again
Speaker 1: they found no evidence that Eugene or the body of
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Speaker 1: Johnny gosh It's parents, Noreen and John, who contacted the
Speaker 1: Martin family immediately after Eugene was declared missing to offer
Speaker 1: whatever support they could. It was another devastating blow Despite
Speaker 1: all they'd done to alert local authorities to the danger
Speaker 1: of child abduction, it had seemingly happened all over again.
Speaker 1: That Eugene had disappeared under such similar circumstances For Noreen
Speaker 1: at least, was further evidence too that a shadowy child
Speaker 1: abuse ring was actively snatching children from America's streets. Though
Speaker 1: not everyone was willing to agree, it was hard to
Speaker 1: ignore the growing sense among many Americans that there was
Speaker 1: something rotten at the core of their country that seemed
Speaker 1: to be getting worse by the day. In nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: six year old Eton Pats went missing as he walked
Speaker 1: to his school bus stop in Lower Manhattan. The boy
Speaker 1: was never seen again. Then, in July nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: six year old Adam Walsh went missing from a shopping
Speaker 1: mall in Hollywood, Florida. Adams severed head was found in
Speaker 1: a drainage canal two weeks later. The rest of his
Speaker 1: body has never been located. With Johnny Gosh and then
Speaker 1: Eugene Martin to add to that list, a stranger danger
Speaker 1: panic began to take hold. People started to wander if
Speaker 1: it was safe to let their children out at night
Speaker 1: at all. For then President Ronald Reagan and his advocates
Speaker 1: it was all the fault of a vulgar social liberalism
Speaker 1: that had been steadily creeping into American society. In a
Speaker 1: reelection campaign speech delivered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in late
Speaker 1: September nineteen eighty four, President Reagan even name checked both
Speaker 1: Johnny Gosh and Eugene Martin. Reagan promised to be tough
Speaker 1: on crime and to uphold the key American tenets of family, neighborhood,
Speaker 1: and good hard work, as if everyone from any political
Speaker 1: spectrum didn't already hold those dear Some decried the crimes
Speaker 1: as marking an irreversal loss of innocence for the nation,
Speaker 1: while executive editor of the Des Moines Register James Gannon
Speaker 1: saw Johnny and Eugene's potential kidnapping as the inevitable consequence
Speaker 1: of a general softening on a crime which, according to him,
Speaker 1: was threatening to turn the safe and sane heartland of
Speaker 1: Middle America into Detroit or Chicago. For Norain Gosh, she
Speaker 1: was mostly just happy that the President had picked up
Speaker 1: on her son's case earlier in the year, thanks to
Speaker 1: the work of Adam Walsh's parents and in part to
Speaker 1: the Gosh's tireless campaigning to keep Johnny's case in the news.
Speaker 1: In June nineteen eighty four, the National Center for Missing
Speaker 1: and Exploited Children was set up. Then in September, a
Speaker 1: campaign to have the profiles of missing children displayed on
Speaker 1: milk cartons was launched. Johnny Gosh and Huge Jean Martin
Speaker 1: were the first of what would become known as the
Speaker 1: Missing Milk Carton Kids, but by the end of that year,
Speaker 1: no further news of their whereabouts had come to light.
Speaker 1: It was late one night in nineteen eighty five when
Speaker 1: a woman called the Gosh family home with an incredible
Speaker 1: story to tell. The woman had been visiting a grocery
Speaker 1: store in Sioux City, Iowa, about a three hour drive
Speaker 1: west of Des Moines, where she received a dollar bill
Speaker 1: in her change with something scrawled over it in penn.
Speaker 1: Looking closer, she nearly dropped her bag of groceries when
Speaker 1: she saw what it said. Written and capital letters were
Speaker 1: the words I'm alive, and underneath that was the scribbled
Speaker 1: signature of Johnny go Noreen claimed to have had three
Speaker 1: handwriting experts analyzed the note, with all three confirming it
Speaker 1: as a match for Johnny. It offered nothing in the
Speaker 1: way of clues to find the boy, but it was
Speaker 1: enough of a sliver of hope for Noreen and john
Speaker 1: to hang on to. Then, in July nineteen eighty five
Speaker 1: something even more incredible. While out publicizing Johnny's case in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Noreen was approached by a burly looking man
Speaker 1: who introduced himself as Samuel Forbes Dakota. The man claimed
Speaker 1: to know exactly what had happened to her son and
Speaker 1: promised to write it all down in a letter for
Speaker 1: her in the next few weeks. Sure enough, on August ninth,
Speaker 1: the letter arrived at the Gosh family home in it.
Speaker 1: Dakota claimed that for the past years he'd been a
Speaker 1: member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, who in that
Speaker 1: time had been tasked with keeping watch over two hundred
Speaker 1: children that the gang had helped to kidnap for all
Speaker 1: manner of people, and one of those children was known
Speaker 1: to him as Johnny Gosh. Dakota even gave the names
Speaker 1: of several other people who'd been involved in the boys kidnapping.
Speaker 1: But more than that, Johnny, he said, was alive and
Speaker 1: was being kept as a pet by a high level
Speaker 1: drug dealer in Mexico City, and if Noreen and John
Speaker 1: paid him a hundred and eleven thousand dollars, he would
Speaker 1: personally go down there and rescue him. The letter also
Speaker 1: came with a warning that, in no uncertain terms, should
Speaker 1: the Goshes involve the police and the matter, or else
Speaker 1: he would vanish and take his secret with him. Feeling
Speaker 1: they had little choice, the increasingly desperate Goshes agreed to
Speaker 1: wire the man eleven thousand dollars immediately and promised to
Speaker 1: pay another hundred if he managed to succeed in rescuing
Speaker 1: their son. A few days later, they received the devastating
Speaker 1: news from Dakota that his rescue effort had been unsuccessful,
Speaker 1: and then he disappeared after finally informing the police about
Speaker 1: the situation. A few days after that, Dakota was tracked
Speaker 1: down to a motel in Ontario by the FBI. As
Speaker 1: it turned out, he wasn't a Hell's Angel at all,
Speaker 1: but a man named Robert Herman Meyer the Second from
Speaker 1: Saganaw in Michigan. After his arrest, Maya pled guilty to
Speaker 1: two counts of wire fraud and was sentenced to three
Speaker 1: years in prison On August seventeenth, nineteen eighty five, Eugene
Speaker 1: Martin's family gathered together for what was the second birthday
Speaker 1: in his absence. As painful as it was, they even
Speaker 1: baked a cake for him, which they placed in the freezer,
Speaker 1: ready to throw it out the moment he walked through
Speaker 1: the door. But the moment never comes. Much like the
Speaker 1: Gosh family, they too, grew angry and frustrated at the
Speaker 1: police's inability to find even the faintest clue as to
Speaker 1: Eugene's whereabouts. The police could only reiterate that they were
Speaker 1: doing everything they could. Then, in March the following year,
Speaker 1: improbably it happened again. Thirteen year old Mark Allen lived
Speaker 1: with his mother, Nancy, on Emma Avenue in southern Des Moines,
Speaker 1: barely a three minute drive from where Eugene was last seen.
Speaker 1: In the evening of March twenty ninth, nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 1: Nancy was making pizza for her two other children when
Speaker 1: Mark stepped out to meet up with some friends, asking
Speaker 1: her to save him some for when he got back.
Speaker 1: Nancy remembered waving him off, then watching him disappear past
Speaker 1: some bushes a little further down the road and That
Speaker 1: was the last she ever saw of him. It wasn't
Speaker 1: until the following morning that Nancy realized her son had
Speaker 1: not come home. She thought he'd most likely gone to
Speaker 1: stay with his grandmother, who he was known to be
Speaker 1: close with, but she hadn't seen him. More worryingly, he
Speaker 1: never even made it to the friends he said he
Speaker 1: was going to see the night before. His father and
Speaker 1: mother in law, who lived in Connecticut, hadn't heard from
Speaker 1: him either. Unlike Eugene Martin, however, Mark Allen was seen
Speaker 1: as a problem child who had a history of so
Speaker 1: called behavioral difficulties, which likely stemmed from his unsettled upbringing,
Speaker 1: of which he had absolutely no control. Raised by his
Speaker 1: maternal grandmother from the age of seven months to four
Speaker 1: and a half, he was eventually allowed to move back
Speaker 1: with his mother in Des Moines, where he stayed until
Speaker 1: he was ten before moving again to live with his
Speaker 1: father in Minneapolis. Then in January nineteen eighty five, he
Speaker 1: moved back to Des Moines to live with his mother
Speaker 1: for those reasons. Despite Nancy's please to the contrary, many
Speaker 1: in the police took the view that her son had
Speaker 1: most likely just run away. For many others, However, the
Speaker 1: press included the simple fact remained here was a third
Speaker 1: child from Des Moines, last seen only minutes away from
Speaker 1: Eugene Martin's last known whereabouts, who was now also missing.
Speaker 1: It was sometime in early nineteen eighty eight, almost six
Speaker 1: years since Johnny Gosh's disappearance, four since Eugene Martin and
Speaker 1: eighteen months after Mark Allen's, when Nebraska law enforcement officials
Speaker 1: were alerted to an audit conducted on the personal taxes
Speaker 1: of a man named Lawrence E. King. King, the chief
Speaker 1: executive of the Franklin Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska, some
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty miles west of Des Moines, had
Speaker 1: an official annual salary of just over sixteen thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: something which seemed to conflict with his rather openly lavish lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Known for his flamboyant dress sense and adorning himself with
Speaker 1: expensive jewelry, King also owned a seventy thousand dollar Mercedes,
Speaker 1: as well as a four story house with twenty six
Speaker 1: acres of land overlooking the Missouri River. He also thought
Speaker 1: nothing of spending ten thousand dollars a month on his
Speaker 1: own private limousine, and in one particularly outlandish thirteen month
Speaker 1: period managed to spend one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: on flowers alone, a popular expense euphemism in the music industry,
Speaker 1: at least for drugs. King was an active member of
Speaker 1: the Republican Party and a well respected member of the
Speaker 1: local community who'd at one time been the Business committee
Speaker 1: chairman of the National Black Republican Council. The self made King,
Speaker 1: who preached to pull yourself up by the bootstraps philosophy,
Speaker 1: often made charged donations to charitable causes, and had been
Speaker 1: celebrated for his unparalleled ability to persuade numerous charities and
Speaker 1: nonprofits to deposit money at his Franklin Credit Union, which
Speaker 1: served a largely low income client base in North Omaha.
Speaker 1: In truth, however, it appeared that King was quite likely
Speaker 1: siphoning money from the union for himself. But just as
Speaker 1: police were preparing to investigate King, something else came to light.
Speaker 1: In June nineteen eighty eight, a social worker who worked
Speaker 1: at a psychiatric hospital in Omaha made an astonishing accusation
Speaker 1: to the Nebraska Foster Care Review Board. He claimed that
Speaker 1: he had good reason to believe that a child prostitution
Speaker 1: ring was actively operating in Nebraska, and at the center
Speaker 1: of it all was Lawrence E. King. In November nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight, FBI agents stormed the Franklin Community Building in
Speaker 1: Omaha and closed it down, and Lawrence King was arrested
Speaker 1: and accused of embezzling millions of dollars from the credit union. However,
Speaker 1: while King's arrest for potential corruption made headline news, the
Speaker 1: other accusation, perhaps due to its largely spurious nature and
Speaker 1: lack of evidence, remained a secret. That was until the
Speaker 1: following month, when, during an executive board meeting of the
Speaker 1: state legislature in Lincoln, Nebraska, state Senator Ernie Chambers made
Speaker 1: the public announcement that King had also been accused of
Speaker 1: facilitating countless incidences of child abuse. Chambers went on to
Speaker 1: say that he believed the accusations to be just the
Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg, and that in time, many other
Speaker 1: public figures would be outed for their involvement in it too.
Speaker 1: In response, the FBI were forced to reveal that they
Speaker 1: had also been informed at the accusation and were looking
Speaker 1: into it as part of their ongoing investigation into King's
Speaker 1: alleged fraudulent activities. While the Nebraska Attorney General revealed it
Speaker 1: was also aware of the accusation and had instructed the
Speaker 1: state police to investigate it. A state government committee was
Speaker 1: set up to carry out its own investigation into how
Speaker 1: the Franklin credit union had collapsed, headed by Republican state
Speaker 1: Senator Lauren Schmidt. However, with some in the state government,
Speaker 1: Schmidt included, having appeared to have already made up their
Speaker 1: mind about the abuse seleegations, the Franklin Committee, as it
Speaker 1: came to be known, also doubled up as a secondary
Speaker 1: investigation into those two. The committees soon came to loggerheads
Speaker 1: about how best to proceed, with Kirk Nayla, the lawyer
Speaker 1: tasked with overseeing all legal implications, especially apprehensive about legitimizing
Speaker 1: the abuse accusations. In the end, Nayla decided to stand down,
Speaker 1: after which the committee appointed a private investigator, Gary Karadori,
Speaker 1: to find the cold, hard evidence to back up the accusations.
Speaker 1: Over the next few weeks, Karadori claimed to have uncovered
Speaker 1: sixty potential survivors of the abuse and had recorded over
Speaker 1: twenty one hours of testimony from a handful of them.
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Speaker 1: Former Nebraska State Senator John DeCamp was among the most
Speaker 1: vocal supporters of those willing to go on record to
Speaker 1: accuse King of his involvement in the alleged child prostitution ring.
Speaker 1: DeCamp was adamant that the accusations were true, and pender
Speaker 1: letter to the Omaha World Herald newspaper listing the names
Speaker 1: of four other prominent and powerful men who had been
Speaker 1: accused along with King, of taking part in the abuse.
Speaker 1: It was he believed conspiracy that went all the way
Speaker 1: to the highest echelons of American society. The letter was
Speaker 1: then mailed to ten thousand homes in eastern Nebraska by
Speaker 1: a candidate running for state office at the time. When
Speaker 1: the police investigation into the allegations were complete, a grand
Speaker 1: jury was arranged to take place in July to determine
Speaker 1: whether there was enough evidence to pursue a formal prosecution
Speaker 1: of King and the other men who had been accused
Speaker 1: alongside him. That same month, Gary Karadori, the Franklin Committee's
Speaker 1: lead investigator, who had compiled the twenty one hours of
Speaker 1: testimony and had apparently tracked down sixty potential survivors of
Speaker 1: the alleged abuse, flew himself and his son to Chicago
Speaker 1: to watch a baseball game. On the return flight, early
Speaker 1: in the morning of July eleventh, nineteen eighty nine, Karadori's
Speaker 1: playing fell out at the sky and crashed four miles
Speaker 1: south of Ashton in north central Illinois, killing him and
Speaker 1: his eight year old son. The plane was later judged
Speaker 1: to have mysteriously broken up in midflight. According to some
Speaker 1: Karadori had not just traveled to Chicago for a baseball game,
Speaker 1: but also to rendezvous with a child pornographer called Rusty
Speaker 1: Nelson in order to collect incriminating photographs that purported to
Speaker 1: show numerous well known individuals in compromising situations with young children.
Speaker 1: This claim, however, is entirely unproven. A few days later,
Speaker 1: the Douglas County Grand Jury found that there was absolutely
Speaker 1: no evidence that Lawrence King, or anyone else for that matter,
Speaker 1: had been involved in any ring of organized activity to
Speaker 1: sexually exploit miners, transport miners in interstate commerce for sexual purposes,
Speaker 1: or to traffic and controlled substances. The jury also concluded
Speaker 1: that John De Camp had most likely written his accusatory
Speaker 1: letter for personal political gain and possible revenge for past
Speaker 1: actions alleged against him, and that all in all, the
Speaker 1: accusations were a carefully crafted hoax scripted by a person
Speaker 1: or people with considerable knowledge of the people and institutions
Speaker 1: of Omaha. The case seemed fairly open and shut when
Speaker 1: it was then revealed that two of the four witnesses
Speaker 1: who'd volunteered testimony to the Franklin Committee later recanted their statements,
Speaker 1: saying that they'd simply made up the allegations in the
Speaker 1: hope of making some money from it. The two other witnesses,
Speaker 1: Alicia Owens and Poor Banazi, who claimed they were survivors
Speaker 1: of the prostitution ring and had named specific individuals of
Speaker 1: being involved in it, maintained that it was all true.
Speaker 1: Both were found guilty of perjury and received hefty prison
Speaker 1: sentences for their involvement in the adjudged hoax. Despite the
Speaker 1: Grand Jury's ruling, it did little to diminish the ever
Speaker 1: growing moral panic that seemed to have much of America
Speaker 1: in its grip. The all too convenient timing and suspicious
Speaker 1: nature of Garry Karadori's death, as some saw it, only
Speaker 1: served to fan the flames. The following day, after the
Speaker 1: grand jury released its verdict, a pole conducted by local
Speaker 1: TV station k e t V revealed that more than
Speaker 1: ninety percent of viewers disagreed with its findings. Many turned
Speaker 1: their ire on the media, the FBI, and local law enforcement,
Speaker 1: accusing them all of not doing their jobs properly. The
Speaker 1: FBI said they were satisfied there was no substance to
Speaker 1: the allegations, while the Omaha Police and state Attorney General
Speaker 1: said their investigations into the rumors were thorough and failed
Speaker 1: to find any evidence to corroborate the accusations. The editor
Speaker 1: of the Omaha World Herald newspaper also defended its involvement,
Speaker 1: arguing that dedicating seven hundred stories to the case, with
Speaker 1: more than seven thousand hours clocked by journalists looking into it,
Speaker 1: was hardly a dereliction of duty. Their credibility was somewhat damaged, however,
Speaker 1: when one Omaha World Herald journalist was soon after arrested
Speaker 1: in an unrelated incident for abusing to children by fondling them.
Speaker 1: Though Laurence King was not charged with perpetrating child abuse,
Speaker 1: you was eventually found guilty of embezzling almost forty million
Speaker 1: dollars stolen from the Franklin Credit Union and was sentenced
Speaker 1: to fifteen years for the crime and keeping a keen
Speaker 1: eye on it all from their home in Des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 1: Were Noreen and John Gosh still heartbroken and still desperately
Speaker 1: searching for their son. You've been listening to Unexplained, Season six,
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