Wednesday, May 25, 2016

THIS DAY IN HISTORY-Six Year Old Etan Patz Abducted in New York (1979)

This Day in History

Six-Year-Old Etan Patz Abducted in New York (1979)

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In 1979, Etan Patz left his apartment by himself, for the very first time, to walk the two blocks to his school bus stop. He never made it there. His disappearance was widely covered by the media and led to the implementation of new methods for tracking down missing children, such as the milk carton campaigns of the 1980s. In 2010, the Manhattan district attorney announced that he had reopened the case into Patz's disappearance. Who was found liable for Patz's death in a civil case in 2004?
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