Others felt it was frightening for children to see the missing kids on milk cartons before heading off to school, according to the NCMEC. Some critics felt the program fostered a “stranger danger” ...

The story is told in the two-part Oxygen docuseries The Girl on the Milk Carton. Jonelle’s disappearance became a cold case, but that all changed in 2019 with a grim discovery 20 miles from her ...

However, things spiraled behind the scenes due to Lowe noticing his character being slowly written off and pay disputes ...

While the program had a low success rate of bringing children home, it helped lay the foundation for methods the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) uses today to help find ...

It was the phone number for that organization that was printed on milk cartons in 1984, when an Iowa dairy seeking to help after two local children went missing kicked off a national movement of ...

The tactic of putting missing kids’ faces on the side of milk cartons became widely popularized as Etan, a young white child, was said to have been the first missing kid to have his picture ...

His case contributed to an era of fear among American families, making anxious parents more protective of kids.

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.

Rob Lowe, who played the idealistic deputy of communications at the White House on the first four seasons of NBC's acclaimed ...