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Etan Kalil Patz ( / ˈeɪtɑːn ˈpeɪts /; October 9, 1972 – May 25, 1979) was an American boy who was six years old on May 25, 1979, when he disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. His disappearance helped launch the missing children movement, which included new legislation and new methods ...
Caucasian female. 96 pounds. Shoulder-length curly brown hair, blue eyes, and facial freckles. Scars on both legs. One toe on each of her feet is disabled. Sara Anne Wood (March 4, 1981 – disappeared August 18, 1993) was a twelve-year-old American girl who disappeared while riding her bicycle home from Norwich Corners Church in Sauquoit, New ...
Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990) [1] was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnosis of AIDS. As a hemophiliac, he became infected with HIV from a contaminated factor VIII blood ...
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1984 by the United States Congress.In September 2013, the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, and the President of the United States reauthorized the allocation of $40 million in funding for the organization as part of Missing Children's Assistance ...
By March 1985, 700 of 1600 independent dairies in the United States had adopted the practice of publishing photos of missing children on milk cartons. [3] Etan Patz was one of the first missing children, and perhaps the most famous of them, to be sought with this strategy. [4] In 1979, when the six-year-old boy went missing on the way to the ...
Kevin Andrew Collins (born January 24, 1974 — disappeared February 10, 1984) gained national attention as one of the first missing children to appear on milk cartons and on the cover of national publications, such as Newsweek magazine in 1984. [1] His abduction from San Francisco city streets helped bring to light the plight of missing and ...
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Police have interviewed two potential suspects, but she officially remains missing. [20] [21] 15 August 1990. Eugene John Hebert. 66. Sri Lanka. American-born Jesuit missionary Hebert went missing on 15 August 1990, on his way to the eastern city of Batticaloa from a nearby town of Valaichchenai.