This is the first episode in our new monthly mini series where we focus on cases that led to changes in legislation, protocol and practices. A consequence of an event that is "not in vain" has worth and means something.
The disappearance of 6 year old Etan Patz in 1979 changed the public consciousness of missing children, he was one of the first children to appear on a milk carton and the anniversary of his disappearance is globally acknowledged as International Missing Childrens Day.

Music:

Maestro - Jessie Gallagher

Slow Hammers - The Mini Vandals

Doll Dancing - Puddle of Infinity

Sources

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/nyregion/what-happened-to-etan-patz.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133984/Etan-Patz-disappearance-Shira-Patz-told-brother-advances-men-vanished.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/25/archives/few-clues-in-hunt-for-soho-boy-isolation-grows-for-soho-family.html

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Slain-boy-s-mother-calls-her-son-a-trusting-child-6057761.php

https://www.insideedition.com/40th-anniversary-etan-patzs-vanishing-look-photo-little-boy-years-his-abduction-53204

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/etan-patz-case-killer-pedro-hernandez-gets-25-life-prison-n747781

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/nyregion/at-trial-etan-patzs-mother-recalls-final-moments-with-her-son.html

https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-etan-patz-conviction-20170214-story.html

https://apnews.com/18f68a317b7a4c2886067c0cde9100c2/Man-gets-25-years-in-1979-case-of-missing-boy-Etan-Patz

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/nyregion/what-happened-to-etan-patz.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/when-bad-news-was-printed-on-milk-cartons/516675/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/may/27/etan-patz-child-disappearance

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/etan-patz-missing-boy-case-reopened-31-years/story?id=10749565

AUDIO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3YZzwycY4

https://youtu.be/SnKZGoixywg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DmysyADXXc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUU_q9abNJc&t