The Manhattan district attorney’s office is reopening a case that never resulted in any arrests and never turned up a body.

Etan Patz, then 6 years old, went missing on May 25, 1979, and was never seen again. The missing person investigation launched one of the largest missing child campaigns in U.S. history, including the beginning of featuring missing children’s pictures on the back of milk cartons and, on the anniversary of Patz’s disappearance, the first National Missing Children’s Day.

Although investigators were capable of finding significant evidence against Jose Antonio Ramos, a vagrant who dated one of the boy’s babysitters, the evidence was not great enough to convict him. Ramos is currently in prison, serving a sentence of 20 years for sexually abusing a young boy.

The Patz family was able to level a civil suit against Ramos, being rewarded $2 million for the wrongful death of their son. They are optimistic that this cold case can be solved with renewed attention and new investigators.

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