Reuters: Most Read Articles: New York search launched for long-missing child Patz

Reuters: Most Read Articles Reuters.com is your source for breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks. Reuters is the leading global provider of news, financial information and technology solutions to the world's media, financial institutions, businesses and individuals. // via fulltextrssfeed.com

New York search launched for long-missing child Patz Apr 19th 2012, 16:33 NEW YORK | Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:33pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI and the New York Police Department launched a search on Thursday in connection with the disappearance of Etan Patz in 1979 when the boy was 6 years old in one of the city's most prominent missing child cases. Patz, who was one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton, was formally declared dead in 2001. The authorities began their search early on Thursday at the SoHo neighborhood building where the boy disappeared, FBI spokesman Peter Donald said. "We are here conducting a search in connection with the ongoing FBI investigation into the disappearance of Etan Patz," Donald said. Authorities did not immediately make clear whether they knew where Patz's body was located. Patz's disappearance helped launch a national movement on the issue of missing children. The date May 25 was declared "National Missing Child Day" in his honor. No one was ever criminally charged in Patz's disappearance but in 2004 his family won a $2 million civil judgment against Jose Antonio Ramos, a friend of Patz's babysitter. The sum has not been paid, and Ramos is serving a prison sentence for child molestation.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions