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Etan Kalil Patz (; born October 9, 1972; declared legally dead in 2001) was an American child who was six years old when he disappeared in the SoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City, on May 25, 1979. He is the best known missing child from New York City.〔Ramirez, Jessica (January 29, 2007). "The Abductions That Changed America". ''Newsweek''. pp. 54–55.〕 His disappearance helped spark the missing children's movement, including new legislation and various methods for tracking down missing children, such as the milk-carton campaigns of the mid-1980s. Etan was the first ever missing child to be pictured on the side of a milk carton. The case examining Patz's disappearance was reopened in 2010 by the New York County District Attorney's office. In April 2012, the FBI excavated a basement near the Patz residence, which revealed no new evidence.〔 A self-confessed suspect, Pedro Hernandez, was charged and indicted later that year on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. In 2014, the case went through a series of hearings to determine if Hernandez’s statements before receiving the Miranda warning were legally admissible at trial. The trial began in January 2015, but ended in a mistrial in May. The day of Patz's disappearance in 1979, May 25, was designated National Missing Children's Day in the US since its declaration by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Every year on May 25, members of a network launched in 1998 as a joint venture of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) and the US's National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) of 22 countries pay respects to International Missing Children’s Day, honoring missing and abducted children while celebrating those who have been recovered. ==Disappearance== On the morning of Friday, May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz left his SoHo apartment by himself for the first time. He was to walk two blocks to catch the school bus at West Broadway and Spring Street and he wore a blue captain hat, a blue shirt, blue jeans, and blue sneakers that day. He never reached the bus stop. When he did not come home when school ended, his mother called the police. An intense search began that evening, using nearly 100 police officers and a team of bloodhounds. The search continued for weeks. At first, detectives considered the Patzes as possible suspects, but they quickly determined the parents had no involvement. A massive search involving neighbors and police covered the city with missing child posters featuring Patz's face, but resulted in few leads. Patz's father, Stan Patz, a professional photographer, used a collection of photographs he had taken of his son in the effort to find the missing boy. His photos of Etan were printed on countless missing child posters and milk cartons, and they were projected on screens in Times Square. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Disappearance of Etan Patz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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