NYPD Reopens 33 Year Old Missing Child Case

NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) -- Police and FBI agents will spend the next few days searching a New York City basement for signs of a long-missing boy, law enforcement officials said Thursday. Searchers Thursday began going through the basement in SoHo where 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished in 1979 while walking to his school bus stop.

Etan later had the sad honor of being among the first missing children to have their photo printed on milk cartons in hopes someone would recognize them.

Law enforcement sources told The New York Times a cadaver dog had sniffed around the basement in recent weeks and indicated the possible presence of human remains.

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