Why Johnny Can't Come Home, p.131 wrote:The plan for the kidnapping was to grab Johnny, Emilio to meet with the driver of the van which was Tony and they would transfer Johnnys body to the van. Then all 3 vehicles would leave West Des Moines in different directions and rendezvous at a farmhouse just outside Sioux City, Iowa. A man named Charlie Kerr owned the farmhouse.
Charles A. Kerr is an actual landowner in Sioux City who died in 2004. However, despite seeing various websites accuse him of harboring Johnny, I wasn't aware of any direct evidence, so I went looking for any corroboration of Kerr's involvement.
I didn't quite find that yet, but I did find something interesting. Noreen claims that the local prosecutor was doing surveillance on Kerr's farm until her husband showed up and ruined the sting operation. I decided to ask the Woodbury County Attorney's office for any records on Kerr, and received a short list of his criminal history. One of those happened to be a "Prostitution" charge in January 1983, only a couple months after Johnny's abduction on September 5, 1982. I don't know what the charge entailed or whether it relates to the Gosch abduction, but it was an interesting find given the accusations against Kerr, and I'm searching for more details.