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On August 12, 1984, Eugene Martin, another Des Moines-area paperboy, disappeared under similar circumstances.<ref>{{cite news |title=Des Moines Man Sought In Boy's Disappearance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/15/us/around-the-nation-de-moines-man-sought-in-boy-s-disappearance.html |work=The New York Times |issue=46137 |volume=133 |date=15 August 1984 |access-date=October 11, 2021 |archive-date=October 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011103832/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/15/us/around-the-nation-de-moines-man-sought-in-boy-s-disappearance.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wednesday will be long day for Gosch's|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14328790/johnny_gosch_and_eugene_martin/|access-date=October 11, 2017|work=[[Sioux City Journal]]|agency=Associated Press|date=September 3, 1984|pages=3|via=Newspapers.com|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011072456/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14328790/johnny_gosch_and_eugene_martin/|url-status=live}} {{free access}}</ref> He disappeared while delivering newspapers on the south side of Des Moines.<ref>{{cite web|title=Have you seen this child? Eugene Martin|url=http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/601815|publisher=[[National Center for Missing & Exploited Children]]|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011073002/http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/601815|url-status=live}}</ref>
On March 29, 1986, the day before Easter, then-13-year-old Marc James Warren Allen told his mother he was going to walk to a friend's house down the street. He never arrived at the friend's house and has not been seen since. Media reports initially described Allen as the third Iowa paperboy to go missing in the 1980s, but a detailed piece about Iowa's missing people that appeared in ''[[The Des Moines Register]]'' on August 18, 2013, claimed that he was not a paperboy in Des Moines.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/marc-allen/ | title=Marc James Warren Allen | Iowa Cold Cases | date=February 16, 2011 | access-date=October 5, 2022 | archive-date=October 5, 2022 | archive-
Authorities were unable to prove a connection between the three cases, yet Noreen Gosch says that she was personally informed of the abduction of Eugene Martin a few months in advance by a private investigator who was searching for her son. She was told the kidnapping "would take place the second weekend in August 1984 and it would be a paperboy from the southside of Des Moines."<ref>{{cite web|title=Case FAQs|url=http://www.johnnygosch.com/CaseFAQ.htm|publisher=The Johnny Gosch Foundation|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-date=June 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609174832/http://www.johnnygosch.com/CaseFAQ.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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