Back then, agencies who were searching for missing or endangered people would add an image and brief description of the person to get the community’s attention. The concept started following the ...

A renewed investigation into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City recalled the years when printed images of missing children appeared on milk cartons. On Thursday ...

Even though the campaign was short-lived and mostly ended by the late 1980s, the cartons are still a prominent image for people thinking about missing kids. "We were frightening children," Lowery ...

THEIR PICTURES will run on the milk cartons for several weeks. Afterward, their faces will be replaced by others. Thousands of children are reported missing each year.

The logistics that went into theprinting process in the 1980s played a big role in NCMEC abandoning the milkcarton program, Lowery said. It was a painfully slow way to push outinformation to the ...

The FBI and the New York Police Department have resumed the search for Etan Patz, who went missing in 1979 at the age of 6. Patz was one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton.