I think it's one of the most convoluted stories I've ever encountered. Which makes me think C.I.A. involvement. This kid is taken, the police and the F.B.I. want nothing to do with it, which is odd, then there is the Franklin Cover up, where the Republicans are supposedly trafficking children as sex slaves and possibly sacrifices, which isn't so far fetched when you realize that rich powerful white men have been doing that for hundreds of years, you have Johnny appearing on the front page of the Washington Post behind Poppy Bush, then later you have the now adult Gosch's early morning visit to his mother, where he is identified by a scar on his cheek and a birthmark on his chest, and the same man, apparently, appearing in the White house press room with a press pass, under a pseudonym with the same initials, ie, JG, who turns out to be a homosexual porn star under still another pseudonym with the same initials, J.G.
To this add Hunter Thompson's suicide, allegedly due to his fear that the Franklin case having been exposed in the Washington Post would incriminate him for having shot and killed a boy, which was witnessed by the same man who says he helped kidnap Johnny and was at the White house on two different occasions for pedophile parties. Gunderson, a retired F.B.I. agent who was suspisiously murdered, poisoned, if I recall, and some other man, a photographer who attended the same parties, with photographic evidence, who's plane was blown up out of the sky.
To complicate things, the photos often depicting a gagged and bound Johnny Gosch are actually pictures of two boys who, willingly on a dare to establish whether or not they could escape, had the pictures taken, and were reported to the local police and found not to have been suspect.