Man confesses to murdering Etan Patz (the milk carton boy)

[terry78]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...121425727.html


He was basically the kid that went missing back in '79 that started the trend of placing pictures on milk cartons of missing children.

[bullets]

Yeesh , better late than never.


I can't remember the last time I saw a face of somebody on the side of a milk carton. I used to get flyers in the mail that would have missing children and sometimes an aged graphic.

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I loved how terrible late 80s/early 90s computerized aging looked. It was never a natural progression of years. It always made the missing kid look like he or she suffered from progeria. They just added some wrinkles and made the face a bit longer. They didn't account for how much a face really changes from the age of 8 until 25 or so.

[CConn]

And it happened in scenic Camden, New Jersey.

[bullets]

Originally Posted by JJJ's Ulcer

I loved how terrible late 80s/early 90s computerized aging looked. It was never a natural progression of years. It always made the missing kid look like he or she suffered from progeria. They just added some wrinkles and made the face a bit longer. They didn't account for how much a face really changes from the age of 8 until 25 or so.

I had a feeling something was up with those pictures, lol.

[Parker Wayne]

Originally Posted by CConn

And it happened in scenic Camden, New Jersey.

And it couldn't have happened in a place any more beautiful.

[danoyse]

Originally Posted by bullets

Yeesh , better late than never.


I can't remember the last time I saw a face of somebody on the side of a milk carton. I used to get flyers in the mail that would have missing children and sometimes an aged graphic.

They stopped the milk carton pictures back in the 80s, I think. Child psychiatrists warned that they were too frightening for kids. They still do the missing child photos on flyers in the mail, and our local news runs them during commercial breaks.

I started kindergarten in NY the same year Etan Patz disappeared. I don't remember the actual disappearance when it happened, but I do remember that when school ended each day our teacher would line us up by the door and ask us to point out who was taking us home, and we would have to tell her who that person was, and then they would finally let us leave. No one was let out of the school alone.

I hope this is finally the right guy, and at least the family has some sort of closure.

[CConn]

Originally Posted by Parker Wayne

And it couldn't have happened in a place any more beautiful.

The sad thing is, like 50% of the people who live around me were born in Camden.

I got lucky and ended up in Mount Holly.

[bullets]

Originally Posted by danoyse

They stopped the milk carton pictures back in the 80s, I think. Child psychiatrists warned that they were too frightening for kids. They still do the missing child photos on flyers in the mail, and our local news runs them during commercial breaks.

I started kindergarten in NY the same year Etan Patz disappeared. I don't remember the actual disappearance when it happened, but I do remember that when school ended each day our teacher would line us up by the door and ask us to point out who was taking us home, and we would have to tell her who that person was, and then they would finally let us leave. No one was let out of the school alone.

I hope this is finally the right guy, and at least the family has some sort of closure.

Thanks , I was wondering about that. I do sometimes get them on the back of flyers and more recently on a tax form ( form9465).

It's good your teacher did that. When I was a kid I had a bad habit of wondering off school property if I got upset.

Also that would be awful if this is another boston strangler situation.

[danoyse]

Originally Posted by bullets

Thanks , I was wondering about that. I do sometimes get them on the back of flyers and more recently on a tax form ( form9465).

It's good your teacher did that. When I was a kid I had a bad habit of wondering off school property if I got upset.

Also that would be awful if this is another boston strangler situation.

I don't remember ever being traumatized by milk carton photos. I remember that after the TV movie Adam aired (he was the son of John Walsh, who was kidnapped and killed in 1981), they ran a roll call of missing kids at the end of the movie -including Etan's photo- and they wound up finding a bunch of those kids, so I thought the pictures were a good thing because it helped find missing kids.

I have friends who grew up in that neighborhood, and they are still freaked out about Etan Patz. Stuff like that just didn't happen.

[Duke]

I truly hope this guy gets what's coming to him 10 fold.

[Maximum Carnage]

I hope his family finally has closure. What a horrifying story, though.