6 Year Old Etan Patz Went Missing May 25, 1979 in NYC On His Way to School … 33 Years Later … Is Etan Patz “The Boy in the Basement”?

Could the cold case of missing Etan Patz finally be solved?

Six year old Etan Patz went missing on May 25, 1979. On the morning of Friday morning Etan Patz left his SoHo apartment by himself for the first time to walk the two blocks to catch the school bus. Sadly, he would never get to the bus and was declared missing when he failed to come home later that day.

Etan Patz’s is probably the most famous missing child’s case in NYC. His disappearance caused a media circus and gave rise to the milk carton campaigns of the mid 1980′s. It was Etan Patz who was the first ever missing child to be pictured on the side of a milk carton. Now some 33 years later this cold case has heated up to a super nova. Investigators recently relaunched their probe of the cold case and have brought cadaver dogs to the SoHo apartment basement where the dog picked up a human scent in the basement.

Authorities said both new and old information led them to Miller, a part-time handyman, who met Patz the day before he disappeared and gave him a dollar. Miller faces no charges in connection with the disappearance.

Which begs the question … Is Etan Patz the “BOY IN THE BASEMENT”?

Got Milk For Missing?

Etan Patz is the case study the criminology enthusiast and true crime aficionados can regurgitate verbatim.

A word to the wise to those who may not say his name correctly in professional conversation-  It is on the “things you must never do  if you wish to be taken seriously” list.  Colleagues will involuntarily cringe.

He was the first missing child featured on the milk carton.

Read the full story at Blink on Crime.

3 Responses to “6 Year Old Etan Patz Went Missing May 25, 1979 in NYC On His Way to School … 33 Years Later … Is Etan Patz “The Boy in the Basement”?”

1. Arrest Made in the 1979 Etan Patz Missing Persons Case … Suspect NJ Man in Custody … Individual Not New to Case | Scared Monkeys on May 24th, 2012 6:31 am

   [...] as to what happened to Etan Patz who disappeared in 1979 as we was on his way to school. Etan Patz vanished on May 25, 1979, while walking alone to his school bus stop for the first time just two blocks from his home in New [...]

2. Sunday, May 25, 2014 is National Missing Children’s Day | Scared Monkeys on May 25th, 2014 1:44 pm

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3. Judge Maxwell Wiley Declared a Mistrial in the Etan Patz Missing Child/Murder Case … Single Holdout Said He Could Not Vote to Convict Pedro Hernandez | Scared Monkeys on May 9th, 2015 10:14 am

   [...] to convict the kidnapping and murder suspect, Pedro Hernandez, who confessed to the murder? Etan Patz was the 6 year old boy who vanished while walking to a school bus stop in SoHo, NYC in 1979. His [...]

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