The disappearance of Etan Patz (Stranger danger)
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
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On May 25, 1979, 6-year-old Etan Patz headed out of his New York City home to his bus stop only two blocks away. Etan’s first walk to the bus stop alone tragically ended up being the last walk of his life.
Etan’s story changed things & caused parents to clutch their kids by the hand, unwilling to allow them to walk ahead on their own. It also was a catalyst for the missing-child panic & the “stranger danger” scare that erupted in the late 1970s & early 1980s & in response to his disappearance as well as the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh, Ronald Reagan formed a task force on missing & exploited children.
YouTube video for this story: https://youtu.be/bB_w5ezLVFs
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the crime and coffee couple. My name's Allison. |
| 0:08.4 | And my name's Mike. Hi, Mike. Hey, Al. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. How are you? Oh, good. Got our |
| 0:13.1 | little puppy in my lap because she decided that the little seat wasn't good enough for her. I know. Right as we |
| 0:18.0 | started to record, she was getting antsy. Yeah. So, hey, well, |
| 0:21.6 | welcome over here. And if you, if you watch us on YouTube, you'll see her just licking my fingers |
| 0:25.7 | and she'll probably lick my hands the whole time. She can do no wrong in my eyes. Yeah, she's |
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