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.Detectives quickly focused onCarpenter as a prime suspect but did not search his hotel room.Carpenter did not savor his victory for long.He died in 1998.Threeyears later, Paul Schrader directed Auto Focus, a biopic about BobCrane starring Greg Kinnear as Crane and Willem Dafoe as Carpenter.It opened in theaters and appeared at the New York Film Festival.Thesecret about just who killed Bob Crane remains. No Hero: The Murder of Actor Robert Crane (1978) 297FURTHER READINGA.O.Scott. The Bob Crane Story: Everything but a Hero. New York Times,October 4, 2002.Graysmith, Robert.The Murder of Bob Crane.New York: Crown Publishers,1993.Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186314/.Rubin, Paul. The Bob Crane Murder Case Part One. Phoenix New Times,April 21, 1993.http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/related/to/Robert+Hogan.Rubin, Paul. The Bob Crane Murder Case Part Two. April 28, 1993. This page intentionally left blank Julie Patz, mother of Etan Patz, appeared on NBC-TV s Today show inNew York City on March 26, 1981.AP Photo/Pickoff.The Milk Carton Kid:The Disappearance ofEtan Patz (1979) 300 Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in AmericaEtan Patz became the first missing child whose photo was placed onthe side of milk cartons.His disappearance led to the designation ofMay 25 as National Missing Children s Day, the creation of acomputer registry of missing children and the founding of theNational Center for Missing and Exploited Children.In the wakeof this tragedy, new software was created to illustrate what victimscould look like as they age.Etan Patz was an outgoing, cheerful, and self-sufficient little boy.Thesix-year-old, whose name meant strength in Hebrew, was small forhis age.He attended grade one at Public School 3 and was learninghow to read, and he asked his parents to read him a story each nightbefore bed.He lived in a loft in New York s SoHo district with hisparents, Stan and Julie, sister, Shira, 8, and brother, Ari, 2.SoHo wasa 43-square block area in Lower Manhattan.Stan was a commercialphotographer and his wife ran a daycare center for toddlers.On May 25, 1979, Etan put on a pair of blue pants, a t-shirt, lightblue sneakers, a blue corduroy jacket, and an Eastern Airlines cap thatsaid Future Flight Captain on it.He had been begging his parents tolet him walk to the bus stop by himself.That day, Julie finally relented.After all, children often walked to school by themselves.Besides, it wasless than two blocks from their loft at 113 Prince Street to the schoolbus at West Broadway and Prince Streets.Just before 8 AM, Etan pickedup his blue cloth schoolbag with elephants printed on it and put it onhis shoulder.He had a dollar in his pocket.His mother unlocked thedoor and followed him down the stairs.She kissed him goodbye, gavehim a hug, and told him to have a good day.Then she watched himfor a few moments stride down Prince Street on that misty, gray springmorning until he reached Wooster, and then she went back upstairs.Mailman Dorsey Whitaker saw Etan stopped at the corner of Wooster,but continued along his route.When Etan had not returned home by 3:30 PM, Julie began to worry.She phoned a neighbor to find out if he was over at their house, and thatis when she learned for the first time that he had never arrived at school.The school had never contacted the Patzes to alert them to his absence.Twenty minutes later, she called Stan while he was at a photo shoot andalso informed the police.Officers arrived and began asking the couple if they had any relativesor friends who could possibly be involved in Etan s disappearance.Thiswas standard procedure, but they knew no one who would want to The Milk Carton Kid: The Disappearance of Etan Patz (1979) 301harm their son.Stan Patz walked into his darkroom and began printingphotos of Etan.Then he showed them to storekeepers and any otherplace where he thought Etan might have gone that morning.He evenstopped people on the street, but no one had seen him.SEARCH FOR ETAN PATZLed by detective Bill Butler, the police launched a door-to-doorsearch in SoHo that evening.The next day, officers had bloodhoundssniff Etan s clothes, and then they patrolled the neighborhood tryingto pick up the little boy s scent.But it was gone.Helicopters flew overManhattan s rooftops, and boats traveled the rivers bordering theisland.More than 300,000 flyers were distributed, and Etan s pictureand the story of his disappearance ran in the tabloids every day.A taskforce of 500 police officers looked for him
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