Disappearance of Etan Patz

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Etan Kalil Patz (; October 9, 1972 – c. May 25, 1979) was a six-year-old American boy who disappeared on May 25, 1979, 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 for tracking down missing children. Years after he disappeared, Patz became one of the first children to be profiled on the "photo on a milk carton" campaigns of the 1980s. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan designated May 25—the anniversary of Etan's disappearance—as National Missing Children's Day in the United States. Etan's body was never found, and he was declared legally dead on June 19, 2001. In 2012, Pedro Hernandez was indicted on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. After a mistrial and retrial, on February 14, 2017, after nine days of deliberations, the jury found Hernandez guilty of murder and kidnapping. Hernandez was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in...

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