- 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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NikitaVerite ago
YES - I was thinking about this yesterday since it's now in the news again. I hadn't realized that they never found his body, or any trace evidence at all. That poor child was likely kidnapped and trafficked, but I guess they needed to shut down the case. It's just totally absurd, the whole damn thing - and the person they convicted.
PizzaThis ago
My intuition feels like he was pimped an died accidentally like JonBenet. *nosources **problynothing