- His murder helped launch the missing children movement, which included new legislation and new methods for tracking down missing children, and spawned the milk-carton campaigns of the early 1980s.
- He was the first missing child to be pictured on a milk carton.
- Body never found
Just seems odd that his disappearance spawned what is now recognized as a very questionable organization with people like Silsby involved...
Also, curious that they reopened the case. Who made that happen? What did they know?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Etan_Patz
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carmencita ago
In the Wiki info they show a pic of Etan, is he topless? Who supplied that picture? I find it very strange. Really what parent has a picture that looks like it was a posed picture for a photographer done topless? Very odd to me. My buzzer just went off.
Dasistnichtgut ago
Here's another buzzer.... does it strike anyone else as remotely odd that the child didn't walk to the bus stop alone (2 nyc blocks mind you, as a 6 yr old) the ENTIRE school year but they finally decide to let him at the very end of the school year and, oh, he just so happens to disappear the very first time he does?
NikitaVerite ago
Indeed - AND, that morning his 8 year old sister "declined to go to school that day". Sorry - I know I should include a link - my browser is lagging and I feel like it's going to crash. I will try to post more info and all the links after a restart. I am finding out the craziest shit about this case.
Dasistnichtgut ago
Yes, it sinks to high heaven. Fascinating that the parents were "quickly dismissed" as suspects given what we were quickly able to ascertain. So the PD and E A H must know quite a bit....
carmencita ago
Yes, that is something that I has always bothered me about that case. I mentioned it to my husband yesterday when they announced the verdict. His dad did something or he sold him off to someone. Funny they never had any more kids. Maybe they never wanted any.
Dasistnichtgut ago
Agreed. Saw that, too. Very weird. But the dad was a professional photographer so....... (Crap this Keeps getting worse)
carmencita ago
Yup.
NikitaVerite ago
Damn - I had never seen that photo before. His father was a professional photographer, so it's very likely that he took that photograph himself. Which REALLY gets me wondering about the father. Not that taking topless photos of your child is inherently "wrong" or whatever, BUT - I don't really understand the topless child thing with this particular type of pose. It's quite off-putting. And then WHY would he choose to release this photo for press use? In my opinion, this type of photo would be for family only - like you want to remember how cute your kiddos were. But I don't know why you would publish such a photo. Aaaaaand I'm going to add this to my ever growing list of "things to look into".
carmencita ago
It immediately jumped out at me. Sometimes it is hard to see the forest through the trees but this was a grove of them. I agree that yeah, I remember taking pictures down the street of a group of kids that were so adorable running in the sprinkler during last summer, but that is when they were suppose to be like that. Why would you have your kid take off his shirt for a picture? Really odd. A formal picture is usually a dressed up kid. Also, a lot of pedophiles are photographers thus having access to a lot of kids. I remember when a lot of parents wanted pictures of their babies on a bear skinned rug. NOT. What a pleasure that was for the pedos!