Etan Patz, Child abduction
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The missing child case of six-year-old Etan Patz ushered in the “stranger danger” era and a reckoning across the US as to how disappearances are handled. Even though a conviction was secured in 2017,
An appellate court decision overturning the conviction of Pedro Hernandez once again puts the shocking disappearance of a little boy in the spotlight.
The 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz as he walked alone to his New York City bus stop for the first time shook the country and still resonates in the present.
Man convicted of killing Etan Patz, one of the first boys featured on missing milk carton, gets sentence tossed - Disappearance of Etan Patz became national news in the 1970s with Patz becoming one of