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In 1979, when the six-year-old boy went missing on the way to the schoolbus in Manhattan, [5] there had been no system in the United States for tracking missing children nationwide. [6] In 1985, Patz's photo was printed on milk cartons so that consumers purchasing milk at retail markets could be encouraged to look for the missing child. [5]
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. [4] 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 disappearance attracted interest from the public. One of the first "milk carton kids", Matthews' picture, and date of disappearance was printed on the side of milk cartons for a period of time as part of a nationwide effort to find missing children. [14]
Etan Patz - His disappearance helped spark the missing children's movement, including new legislation and various methods for tracking down missing children, such as the milk-carton campaigns of the mid-1980s. Etan was the first ever missing child to be pictured on the side of a milk carton. Abduction of Kamiyah Mobley; Kidnapping of Carlina White
In 1984, Gosch's photograph appeared alongside that of another Des Moines Register paperboy, Eugene Martin, who had gone missing that year, on milk cartons produced by the Des Moines–based Anderson Erickson Dairy. [17] Gosch was among the first missing children who had their plights publicized in this way. [18] [19]
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]
The father of Sherin Matthews, a toddler who went missing on October 7, says she died after he 'physically assisted the girl' in drinking a glass of milk.
At the time of the kidnapping, Garecht's photo was featured as a missing child on milk cartons [7] and billboards nationally and thousands of fliers and posters were spread throughout the community; within a day of her disappearance, family and volunteers had distributed 42,000 missing person fliers. [15]