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6-Year-old Etan Patz—boy on milk carton—goes missing On the morning of May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz convinced his mom to let him walk to the bus stop alone. When she got the call later that day that Etan never made it to school, her legs gave out from under her. His face soon appeared at breakfast tables around the U.S. as he became the original missing milk carton kid — but Etan was never seen alive again. However, after nearly 40 years of searching, Etan's case has finally been closed. Etan Kalil Patz (/ˈeɪtɑːn ˈpeɪts/; October 9, 1972 – May 25, 1979) was an American boy who was six years old on May 25, 1979, when he disappeared 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. Several years after he disappeared, Patz was one of the first children to be profiled on the "photo on a milk carton...