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The Etan Patz Case

New York City, New York, United StatesMay 25, 1979

Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on May 25, 1979, while walking alone to his school bus stop in New York City — one of the first missing child cases to appear on a milk carton. Pedro Hernandez confessed and was convicted in 2017.