When a child goes missing today, word is spread through an Amber Alert or digital missing persons poster — but national efforts to increase awareness of missing kids began four decades ago with a ...

They were among the first children to be featured on milk cartons, which asked for the public’s assistance in helping authorities nationwide locate missing kids. Their faces appeared on 3 to 5 ...

In the 1980s — before social media and the Amber Alert — United States dairy companies began printing missing children’s photos on the sides of milk cartons as a way to get word out to the public.

Patz was one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton. How did photos of missing children end up on milk cartons? It all started with a few pamphlets. In the 1970s, many police ...

Long before Amber Alerts, the faces of America's vanished children stared out from milk cartons during a short-lived initiative that provided long-term results for the nation's missing-children's ...

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.

Long before Amber Alerts, the faces of America’s vanished children stared out from milk cartons during a short-lived initiative that provided long-term results for the nation’s missing ...

Jonelle Matthews was one of the first missing children featured on a milk carton in 1985. (Illustration by Angel Dey) Anderson Erickson Dairy in Des Moines, Iowa, is credited asthe first dairy ...

Among the missing children featured on the side of milk cartons in the 1980s was Etan Patz - a six year old boy who disappeared nearly 33 years ago, on the very first day his parents let him walk ...

She became one of the first missing kids whose face was printed on milk cartons to publicize her disappearance. Her remains were accidentally found 35 years later on July 24, 2019, by construction ...

Patz was one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton. How did photos of missing children end up on milk cartons? It all started with a few pamphlets. In the 1970s, many police ...