Crime at 900 BLOCK OF 9TH AVE NW on 12/10/2025 10:04 PM

Type: Other

Date: 12/10/2025 10:04 PM

Description: ALL OTHER. Event #: 1564419. Agency: IA0770800 - Altoona Police Department. Disclaimer: This address provided is approximate based on calls for service data

Address: 900 BLOCK OF 9TH AVE NW, Altoona, IA

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Area Missing Persons

missing-person-record__Martin

Name

Eugene Martin

Missing Age

14

Est. Current Age

55

Last Seen

Des Moines, IA on 08/12/1984

Physical Description

Race: Ethnicity: Gender: Male Hair: Eyes: Height: Weight:

Case Number

601815

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Area Cold Cases

cold-case-record__Gosch

Name

John Gosch

Age

12

Cause of Death

Missing

Info

It’s a story that shocked communities and catapulted iowa into the national spotlight, changed state law and forever changed the way parents monitored their children’s activities. Twelve-year-old des moines register paperboy johnny gosch left his west des moines home on sunday morning, september 5, 1982, to begin his paper route. He wore a white sweatshirt with ‘kim’s academy’ on the back, warm-up pants, blue rubber flip-flops, and carried a yellow paper-bag. Normally, his father, john gosch, accompanied him on the route, but on this day johnny went alone.

Agency

Iowa

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