Etan Patz, 6, disappeared while walking to a school bus stop. It was the first time he'd gone alone.
Posted on 05/13/2009 12:36:17 PM PDT by JoeProBono
His was the first photo of a missing child to appear on a milk carton. Almost 30 years later, Etan Patz is still missing. Etan was 6 when he disappeared on May 25, 1979, the Friday before Memorial Day. He was on his way to school in what is now the upscale Soho neighborhood of New York. It was the first time he'd walked to the bus stop by himself. It was just a few blocks away. Etan, like any 6-year-old, argued that all of his friends walked to the bus stop alone, and his parents relented. His mother, Julie Patz, learned that Etan hadn't been in classes when he failed to return home. She called the school at 3:30 p.m., then called the homes of all his friends.
When no one had seen Etan, she called police and filed a missing person's report. By evening more than 100 police officers and searchers had gathered with bloodhounds.
The search continued for weeks, but no clues to Etan's whereabouts were found. The boy's disappearance was one of the key events that inspired the missing children's movement, which raised awareness of child abductions and led to new ways to search for missing children. Etan's case was the first of the milk carton campaigns of the mid-1980s.....
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Etan Patz, 6, disappeared while walking to a school bus stop. It was the first time he'd gone alone.
Etan, like any 6-year-old, argued that all of his friends walked to the bus stop alone, and his parents relented. ................................. No Wonder!
he is dead......
...what other explanation is there?
NO WONDER HE DISAPPEARED.
Well, the milk is spoiled by now and the poor boy is no doubt dead.
Nothing unusual about walking a fair distance at that age 30 years ago. It’s especially true of kids in the country and small towns.
My only rules were, don’t get in trouble, and be home before the streetlights come on.
my son tried the same thing on me.......I am sure this one guy almost called the cops on me as I was sneaking along hiding behind bushes and trees to make sure he got there all right......after that I just stood on the end of the street and watched till he disappeared then called my MIL to take over the watch from her house. LOL......it worked.
maybe they could put Lousy Pelosi’s credibility on a milk carton.
Jose Antonio Ramos
"Ramos told GraBois that he'd taken a little boy to an apartment he had on the lower East Side on the same day that Etan went missing. "He was 90 percent sure it was the same he'd seen in the news that was missing," GraBois said. According to GraBois, Ramos claimed he released the boy and brought him to a subway station so the boy could go visit his aunt in Washington Heights...."
Jose Antonio Ramos
"Ramos told GraBois that he'd taken a little boy to an apartment he had on the lower East Side on the same day that Etan went missing. "He was 90 percent sure it was the same he'd seen in the news that was missing," GraBois said. According to GraBois, Ramos claimed he released the boy and brought him to a subway station so the boy could go visit his aunt in Washington Heights...."
My husband hid in the bushes to watch our daughter walk to the bus. When she graduated from high school, she said, “Daddy I always saw you; I knew you were there”.
Etan Patz was the first missing child I ever put a face on. When I read about him, he’d been missing a few months. I was a young mother and my own son was just a toddler then and it scared me to death. I was probably a lot more protective of my son because of what happened to Etan and Adam Walsh.
We were just in our small town mall the other day and I thought of Adam and how who would think that a child would be kidnapped from a mall - and yet, when you think of kids walking around alone and distracted parents, it’s a wonder more of them aren’t kidnapped.
I guess it was one thing for people to warn you of something that might happen in the abstract, it’s another thing to put a face on it. No more innocence, for children or parents.
oh, my son caught me on the first day, so we settled on the other plan....he would wave at his grandma as he passed by her house.....but he was happy with the independence.......me, I was worried sick
Jose Antonio Ramos, one of “God’s Children”, I see.
Thanks for the ray of sunshine.
Your right, he will be found alive, unmolested and for some reason still 6 years old.
How can we call ourselves civilized if we don’t kill the ones who hurt these children. It’s sad really. They deserve to know that they will be protected. And avenged if that protection fails.
When the wicked don’t quake in fear, there is something terribly wrong.
Don’t schools normally call home when the child isn’t there and no parent has called them in sick??
They do here anyway. Maybe things would have been different if the mother found out the child was missing at 9am instead of 3:30pm
My parents were both city kids (lower class city kids) who insisted on living in the ‘burbs when they married.Safe,quiet neighborhoods.Boy,am I glad....and grateful.
Yeesh... You think ANYONE doesn’t know the boy is gone? Your post seems more irritated that people still remember the boy than that there are bastards walking free out there hurting children.
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