- 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
Did some digging. Pretty surface level but it's something: - Soho in the 70s and 80s is full of artists doing weird stuff https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/traces-of-soho-past-366-v17n3 - For the pedo influences, check out this work by Mike Kelley who was one of the artists in the neighborhood: fairly graphic depiction of adults screwing kid toys - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/370069294358441834/ many inappropriate uses of stuffed animals and a penchant for penises - https://www.pinterest.com/SrgjEmlvcNdn/mike-kelley/ (sorry about the pinterest stuff, it's the best i can do right now) * Keep in mind that these creepers are who Etan was living around.....and his dad was a "photographer" too
anyway, bit of a HRC connection. and Podesta and Cyrus Jr both went to Georgetown a few years apart.
no smoking guns or theories here, just putting stuff out in case it helps someone bc i'm running out of time to keep looking.
4_InquiringMinds ago
The so called art is disturbing to say the least. This adds a new dimension to Ethan's neighborhood and his parents/wow, had no idea what so ever. Great find Das~great find.
Dasistnichtgut ago
I think it's interesting that none of us knew. It happened in a day and age when if you didn't have personal contacts in the area you wouldn't know anything other than what the Press told you. So we all just ate it up, didn't question anything, couldn't question anything. But now with the Internet we can begin to see how the pieces just don't add up to the narrative. The fact that it's near impossible to find one story or comment on the Internet that in any way casts doubt on the parents or even questions their involvement is telling. And I haven't had a chance to look into the other neighbors. Just seems like they wrote off just about anyone in that neighborhood very quickly.
Dasistnichtgut ago
And the fact that a lead detective committed suicide....