- 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
Agreed. Saw that, too. Very weird. But the dad was a professional photographer so....... (Crap this Keeps getting worse)
carmencita ago
Yup.