- 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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Dasistnichtgut ago
I've always had trouble wrapping my head around the idea of all those missing kids and hardly are ever found. Never added up. Like you said, they have to be SOMEWHERE. To quote the great judith scheindlin... If it doesn't make sense, it isn't true....
And now typing this I'm disgustingly reminded of the movie "La Cite Des Enfants Perdues" - The City of lost children. (Jeunet). They turn them into sausages...... :/