Comments on: John Joubert

By: Ali L.

Ali L. — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:50:39 +0000

dang. i didn’t even know about this murder till like last week. it’s really sad knowing 3 boys, 2 of which live very close. i live in bellevue but didn’t go to mission. does anyone know where exactly he was murdered in bellevue? i really want to check it out, maybe lay some flowers? i never thought in a million years there would be a murderer in bellevue! that’s crazy. it scares me. jeff h. i’m so sorry you lost such a good person. if that happened to me, i don’t know what i would do. i’m only 15, and i would hate it. you were in middle school, i can only imagine the grief. is there any like books i can read about it? well, i hope you guys all have a great day. thanks for the information.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:51:40 +0000

There is a park in La Vista NE dedicated to Danny Eberle and Christopher Walden. Eberle-Walden Park.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:51:47 +0000

Actually it was a boy who got his throat slashed, I know this because he was my best friend at the time. We were in 3rd grade and he was walking home from school on his way to my house where he came after the attack. There were several kids I knew that Joubert hurt. He lived a street over from me and his sister was like a big sister to me and I spent time in their house. It makes me cringe to think how easily I could have been one of his victims.

By: diekatze

diekatze — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:52:25 +0000

Johnny Goesch wasn’t the only missing kid from Des Moines in the 80s. Eugene Martin disappeared while deilivering papers about a year after Goesch. Marc Allen was the same age and disappeared when he was walking to a friends house. None of these boys were ever found.

Johnnys mom Noreen claimed that Johnny visited her in 1997. She said he told her that a child porn ring took him and he was scared for his life. Then in 2006 (I think), she found photos outside her door of a kid who looked a lot like Johnny all tied up and gagged (on her birthday too).

I grew up in the Des Moines area and was very little when these boys disappeared. My parents were terrified. Every couple of years, a new therory comes out. For a while, it was suspected that Jeff Gannon was really Goesch and he snuck into being a white house blogger to bring down the child porn ring that took him.

From what I have read, Joubert was cleared of any involvement in these boys disappearances. I think that it should be looked at again. It isn’t that long of a drive from Nebraska to Des Moines (it is just boring as hell).

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:18:45 +0000

I feel that your posts ought to be deleted but there seems to be no facility or moderator. You really have dragged this whole site down. Whatever your problems, this is the wrong place to air them. As to ‘un lubricated rape’ as you gleefully put it,perhaps you would think differently if it happened to you at nine years old. Please go away, you really are hurting people but before you go there is one thing that you might be interested in, one of my little fantasy pleasures, namely this, I’d like to punch you in the mouth. Once for each posting. Perhaps this threat of violence might wake the site moderator up.

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:43:14 +0000

I found out about this young boy on a crime site today. There’s always a dreadfully bittersweet quality when death visits someone this young and the poor boys loneliness in that last long hour hardly bears thinking about. To Jeff I say, be thankful that you had him as a friend even for only a little while. Many people don’t find friendship of this strength in a lifetime. This life is a trial and Danny Joe has moved on early but his energy (soul) will still be around those he loved and who loved him. It’s a pity he has so few tributes on the ‘Find a Grave’ website. Perhaps people do not realise they can visit him in this way.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:35:04 +0000

John Joubert has, among other things, caused me to just hate and dread the month of September. The end of summer and the return of shorter days and dark mornings. Even the Johnny Goesch case of Des Moines, Iowa (another paperboy abduction but he was never found) happened almost exactly a year earlier in September 1982, also on a Sunday morning. Speaking of my own observations, Sept. seems to be a month bad things happen. Every September Danny Joe is very heavy on my mind. Many mornings I find myself waking up automatically at 5:30 to 6:00 ( thank God I work 2nd shift! ). I look out my window into the dark and try to imagine what poor Danny Joe at the innocent age of 13 went thru that horrible fateful Sunday morning in 1983, while only trying to earn a few bucks. It makes me sick and angry to think about it!!!
Now it is September 18 on a Sunday again, which makes it extra dismal. I am hoping that everyone who knows about this case will take a few extra moments of silence today and maybe even try to do something nice for someone else. Enjoy the day, Danny Joe’s day, thank God for your life- as every day you wake up alive is another “gift”, and cherish every day you have. Danny’s life was way too short but very profound… he left nothing but positive influences and memories. He once shared with me his favorite bible passage… John 3:16 , which is also my favorite because it really sums up God’s plan for all of us. Happy Sunday Sept. 18th!

By: Lantern

Lantern — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:14:54 +0000

Just wanted to give a heads up on something media wise.

“Forensic Files” earlier this month released about 8 DVD sets with about a dozen episodes per set for about $12 each plus shipping on Amazon.

On the serial killers set, “Ties That Bind” is one of the episodes. It profiles this case. It has good videos from media archives and interviews from law enforcement.