Searching for the First Milk Carton Boy, Etan Patz
On May 25th, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz waved goodbye to his mother at his front door in Soho to take the bus by himself to school for the very first time. Etan never made it to school, and President...
View ArticleCleveland Alarmed After Abduction Case
Cleveland is feeling a mix of emotions this week after the discovery and rescue of three young women who were kidnapped 9, 10, and 11 years ago and held captive in a residential home for years. The...
View ArticleCaylee's Law Aims to Toughen Penalties for Failure to Report Missing Kids
Some New Jersey lawmakers want to toughen the penalties for failure to report a missing or deceased child by making them crimes felonies in the wake of the high-profile Casey Anthony case.Assemblyman...
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Children's Safety Concerns Revived in Wake of Patz Search
The recent search for the missing school boy Etan Patz, who disappeared 33 years ago after walking alone to the bus stop, has reignited an age old debate: at what age should parents give their kids...
View Article2 Teens Charged in Death of NJ Girl
A New Jersey prosecutor says two teenage brothers have been charged with murdering a 12-year-old girl whose body was found in a recycling bin.Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said at a news...
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Missing Teen's Family at the Heart of Ongoing Search
Vanessa Fontaine said this past week without her son has been a nightmare. "Every day I wake up I'm saying is this going to be the day that he's going to come home?"Avonte's father, Daniel Oquendo,...
View ArticleJudge in Missing Boy Case to Determine if Confession Was Legally Obtained
A hearing begins Monday to determine whether a confession in a notorious New York City missing boy case can be used in the suspect's murder trial.A lawyer for Pedro Hernandez says his 2012 confession...
View ArticleOpening Statements Today in Etan Patz Case
Lawyers and prosecutors are giving opening statements this morning in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping and murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz 36 years ago.Maplewood, New Jersey resident Pedro...
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Jurors Remember Etan Patz
Jurors from the recent Etan Patz murder trial held a vigil Monday to mark 36 years since he went missing. They laid flowers and notes at a Soho intersection, near the site where he disappeared on the...
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5 important stories that are (almost) entirely politics-free
Scorched trees stand above pasture burned by wildfires near Higgins, Texas. Photo by REUTERS/Lucas Jackson.Last week was all about Capitol Hill. There were hearings on Russia and even more hearings on...
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Etan Patz's Parents Say They'll "Never Forgive" at Hernandez Sentencing
Almost four decades after first-grader Etan Patz set out for school and ended up at the heart of one of America's most influential missing-child cases, a former store clerk convicted of killing him was...
View ArticleHow Colleges Really Work, Reading Children's Books As An Adult, How Bananas...
Jacques Berlinerblau explains the inner workings of higher education. BruceHandy revisits children's literature as an adult. Annie Correal on the long journey bananas take to get to your bodega....
View ArticleWhy You Rarely Hear About Missing Black Girls
When Rotando Freeman's niece ShyShy Pate went missing in 1998 in a small town in Georgia, her family began a campaign to find her that has continued for almost two decades. Freeman shares with us the...
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