I hope this bizarre contact leads to a breakthrough for this mother.

The mother of a boy abducted 24 years ago said she’s bewildered by two photographs left at her front door, apparently showing her son and two other children bound and gagged.

The old photos appear to show 12-year-old Johnny Gosch with his mouth gagged and his hands and feet tied. The boy is wearing the same sweatpants Johnny was wearing when he disappeared while delivering newspapers on the morning of Sept. 5, 1982, his mother said.

Gosch’s son was one of the first missing children featured on the sides of milk cartons. I cannot imagine the enduring agony that the family of a abducted child bears. Perhaps the fingerprinting of the photos will lead to a suspect or some answers of some sort.

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