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Boy on milk carton still missing after 30 years

His was the first photo of a missing child to appear on a milk carton. Almost 30 years later, Etan Patz is still missing.

Etan was 6 when he disappeared on May 25, 1979, the Friday before Memorial Day. He was on his way to school in what is now the upscale Soho neighborhood of New York.

The boy's disappearance was one of the key events that inspired the missing children's movement, which raised awareness of child abductions and led to new ways to search for missing children. Etan's case was the first of the milk carton campaigns of the mid-1980s.
Read entire article at CNN