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 ...

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.

“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.

Patz's father, a professional photographer, made copies of Etan's picture and distributed them far and wide, raising the profile of the missing-person ... on the sides of milk cartons.

"We were an organization seeking a way to get messaging out to the community about missing children. One of those ways was the side of milk cartons." The group can reach millions of people with ...

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 ...

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 ...