- 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?
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.