This Day in History: Etan Patz was born on this day in 1972. Etan Patz was an American boy who disappeared on his way to his school bus in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in 1979. His disappearance helped launch the missing children movement, which included new legislation and new methods for tracking down missing children. Several years after he disappeared, Patz was one of the first children to be profiled on the "photo on a milk carton" campaigns of the early 1980s. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan designated May 25—the anniversary of Etan's disappearance—as National Missing Children's Day in the United States.
"The New York Post writes that Etan's body has never been found. In 2019, his parents decided to permanently leave their SoHo home, 40 years after his disappearance. They had never moved or changed their phone number, just in case their son returned." Source
In 2012, a Pedro Hernandez confessed to killing the boy, however, the police at that time had no physical evidence to corroborate his confession.
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