Missing Children on milk cartons

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Do these pictures on milk cartons ever come to fruition? I’ve always wondered if they really helped finding these poor souls.

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I used to draw goatees and pirate eyepatches on them.

So it was probably not effective in my house.

I’m afraid that, much like the milk, most are expired

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I’m afraid that, much like the milk, most are expired

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I shouldn’t have laughed so hard! Have an upvote!

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I’m afraid that, much like the milk, most are expired

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Damn

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whose mother and stepfather had taken her away

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Police doing strong work here.

Now has station video screens have missing children vids. Saw one the other week "missing since 2004" ... That's now near a 26 yr old ...if still with us

I don't know about milk cartons, but it did work for the music video "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum, which featured 32 missing kids ads local to the area the video was being broadcast in...

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

Very sad stories... From Wikipedia...

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According to Kaye, 26 missing children were found after being featured in the video. In 2006, guitarist Dan Murphy stated in an interview with Pasadena Weekly that some of the cases featured in the video had ended in tragedy: "Some weren't the best scenarios. I met a fireman on the East Coast whose daughter was in the end of the video, and he'd been in a bitter custody battle with his wife over her", Murphy said. "It turned out the girl hadn't run away, but was killed and buried in her backyard by her mother. Then on tour, another girl told us laughingly 'You ruined my life' because she saw herself on the video at her boyfriend's house and it led her being forced back into a bad home situation."

The UK version of the video featured Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol, who each went missing in 1991. Their remains were found in 2007 at a house in Margate. Peter Tobin has since been convicted of both murders.

Also featured in the UK version was Mark Bartley, a runaway who went missing in 1992. He was recognized in the video by a man who knew Bartley was staying in the tenant's house below them, but was unaware of his missing status. By the time the police arrived, Bartley and the man he was living with were gone. It is unknown what happened to him after this.

Curtis Huntzinger, who was featured in the US video, was located deceased in 2008. His convicted killer, Stephen Daniel Hash, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and, in 2009, was sentenced to 11 years in Folsom State Prison. Aundria Bowman was also featured in the US video. Her adopted father Dennis Bowman confessed to her murder in February 2020. Her remains were located later that month, and positively identified via DNA testing in May 2020. Already serving two life sentences for another 1980 murder, he was sentenced to an additional 35–50 years for Aundria's murder.

The last image in all three U.S. versions of the video is that of Thomas Dean Gibson, who disappeared from Douglas County, Oregon in 1991 at the age of 2.[28] He is still missing as of February 2021, and age-progressed photos of him at age 18 and age 21 were released in 2009 and 2012, respectively, by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Thomas's father, Larry Gibson, a former deputy sheriff, was convicted of second degree manslaughter after prosecutors alleged that he accidentally killed Thomas when he shot at a stray cat in his front yard even though no remains were ever found. Larry maintains his innocence and claims to have worked on finding Thomas since being released from prison in 1996. The case was explored on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

The version shown in Australia showed a number of young backpacking tourists whose families were looking for them. Many of those shown in the Australian version were confirmed victims of serial killer Ivan Milat, who was arrested in 1994 not long after the Australian film clip was released.

Also featured in the video, but still missing as of February 2021 were Christopher M. Kerze, Martha W. Dunn, Andrea D. Durham, Wilda M. Benoit, Byron E. Page, Kimberly S. Doss, Duane E. Fochtman, John F. Lango, and Patrick S. Betz.

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I just saw one that had Tyrann Mathieu on it...