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 ...

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 get word out to the public.

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.

She became one of the first missing kids whose face was printed on milk cartons to publicize her disappearance. Her remains were accidentally found 35 years later on July 24, 2019, by construction ...

President Ronald Reagan brought Jonelle’s search into the national spotlight as she became among the first in a ...

Speaking into a phone camera, he would become one of the key faces in an effort that saw hundreds turn out to help search for missing ‘Milk Carton Kids ... of a flurry of background activity ...

If you were alive in the ’80s — or watched any shows set in that decade — you might remember when missing children’s faces started appearing on milk cartons around the country. This series ...

the case attracted the attention of the White House and prompted President Ronald Reagan to make Jonelle one of the first missing children to be featured on milk cartons in his campaign to stop ...