Iowa Cold Cases

[ISUTex]

Johnny Gosch/Eugen Martin disappearances changed society. I had been a Register paper boy a decade earlier. Kids quit doing that, parents quit letting kids take off on their bikes for the day, unsupervised basketball at the park and sandlot baseball.

So terribly sad to never know what happened to your child.

Friends and I still did all of that. Even the paper route. I remember those cases too. I remember being more suspicious of adults, but our parents still let us run feral.

 

[ISUTex]

Not that it matters but I am pretty sure that Eugene Martin was white.

Yeah, Eugene Martin was white.

 

[ISUTex]

Wasn't there something with her boyfriend? Like a few years after it, he tried or did commit suicide?

I have a close friend who knew her and her boyfriend. There was some shady stuff going on with the boyfriend that might have gotten her killed. Nothing has been proven obviously.

 

[IcSyU]

It's not a cold case anymore but one that always fascinated me was the Ethan Kazmerzak case. That dive team from Adventures with Purpose basically found him in a quarry close to where he disappeared from. It sounds like he was wasted and just drove off into a pond that should have been relatively easy to locate.

One thing ive learned from watching that channel is there are many cases that go unsolved because the police simply aren't trying hard enough.

There was one where they found a guy not even 20 yards off the side of a boat ramp in a lake where his last known cell location was. They show up and right away find a grill from his car right on the ramp and proceed to locate him within 5 minutes. Just really poor police work.

In fairness to the police Adventures with Purpose has a bit more advanced equipment for dealing with underwater search than your average PD will. They also likely didn't have the same budget constraints.

I cant remember if they searched the wrong location the first time they were there or if they just missed it. Props to whoever contacted them and helped them zero in on that pond.