These days, the idea of a missing person appearing on a milk carton is something of a cliché, and it's probably better known as a sitcom trope than something that happened in real life.

When a child goes missing today, word is spread through an Amber Alert or digital missing persons poster — but national efforts to increase awareness of missing kids began four decades ago with a ...

“People will have to think about it.” A 1985 Palm Beach Post story about the milk-carton initiative. (Newspapers.com) “With so many children missing,” The New York Times reported in ...

On April 7, a page called “Missing ... persons cases posted a flier with Isabella’s info—the same kind you see hanging in gas stations or pasted on the side of a milk carton.

In the 1980s — before social media and the Amber Alert — United States dairy companies began printing missing children’s photos on the sides of milk cartons as a way to ... National Missing and ...

They were among the first children to be featured on milk cartons, which asked for the public’s assistance in helping authorities nationwide locate missing ... agreed to print photos of both ...

His photograph is being carried on all 2 litre milk cartons sold in ... "Using milk labels to print a photograph and brief details of a missing person is an ideal way of quickly circulating ...

“We’re getting the faces of our missing persons in the public arena for the community to help us locate them,” he said, likening the new approach to the “Milk Carton Kids” – missing ...

THE family of Vicky Hamilton, who went missing six years ago aged 15, last night welcomed plans to print her picture on milk ... on the cartons, in a scheme run by the National Missing Persons ...