The FBI and the New York Police Department have resumed the search for Etan Patz, who went missing in 1979 at the age of 6. Patz was one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton ...

The milk carton campaign began to fade out in the late 1980s as people began to question whether it actually helped find any missing children alive. The strategy also faded in Canada.

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A renewed investigation into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City recalled the years when printed images of missing children appeared on milk cartons.

One of the first children to have their faces displayed on a milk carton was six-year-old Etan Patz from New York. He went missing on May 25, 1979, and his case remained unsolved for nearly 40 years.

Etan Patz. One of the first — and most famous — faces circulated on a milk carton was 6-year-old New York City boy Etan Patz, who vanished while walking to his Manhattan school bus stop on May 25, ...

Jonelle Matthews was one of the first missing children featured on a milk carton in 1984 and 1985. (Illustration by Angel Dey) Show Caption. 1 of 2. Jennifer Matthews, 16, points to a photo of her ...

Milk cartons eventually stopped featuring missing children in the late 1980s, after prominent pediatricians like Benjamin Spock and T. Berry Brazelton worried that they frightened children ...

In the 1980s, putting missing posters on milk cartons was one of the best ways to ensure people saw the faces of missing children. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app. Download ...

The story is told in the two-part Oxygen docuseries The Girl on the Milk Carton. Jonelle’s disappearance became a cold case, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — He was America’s missing child, the little boy who went off to school alone and vanished. A renewed investigation into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz in … ...