Etan Patz & Jose Antonio Ramos: Was Ramos responsible for Patz’s disappearance (photo)

By Clarencia Cynrae on May 13th, 2009



On May 25, it will be 30 years since Etan Patz disappeared. Patz was 6 when he went missing in Manhattan on May 25, 1979. Patz walked two blocks to his school bus bus-stand on the morning of May 25. It was his first trip alone outside and he disappeared.

Patz became famous as his disappearance brought changes to the missing children’s movement. Due to the immense amount of publicity, attention was focused on new legislation and methods to locate missing kids. Etan Patz was one of the missing children’s faces to be put on a milk carton to heighten awareness for his disappearance.

In 1991, Jose Antonio Ramos was mentioned as a possible suspect in the disappearance of Etan Patz. Ramos was jailed in Pennsylvania when he allegedly told his fellow prison mates that he killed Etan Patz. Ramos served 12 – 15 years for molesting boys in Penn.

Ramos was a friend of Etan Patz’s former baby sitter. Ramos could have met Patz before May 25 1979. If Ramos was known to Patz, the boy could have been caught off guard and followed him somewhere as Patz never made it to school that fateful day.

May 25 has been designated as the National Missing Children’s day, in honor of Etan Patz.

Etan Patz photo at wiki.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 5:10 pm and is filed under Gossip.


2 Responses to “Etan Patz & Jose Antonio Ramos: Was Ramos responsible for Patz’s disappearance (photo)”

  1. Lisa R. Cohen Says:
    May 14th, 2009 at 7:44 am

    Lisa Cohen here, author of just released “AFTER ETAN: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive.” I just want to clear up a common misperception – Etan was NOT the first child on a milk carton. It’s absolutely the case that his disappearance sparked the movement that led to milk cartons, but it was a slow ramp-up, as these things are, and milk cartons were started in the midwest and carried out by some dairy folks there in the mid 80s. As far as I could determine, the winter of 1985, around Christmas, marked the first ones.

    Thanks for keeping the story alive – people need to know about this case.

    Lisa

  2. Dan Crooks Says:
    September 4th, 2009 at 7:46 am

    Hi
    I own and have read ”After Etan”, its a very informative and interesting book about the case of Etan Patz.
    It is difficult to know whether or not Jose Ramos was responsible for Etan’s death, because he was and still is so mentally unstable that many things he claimed may not be true.

    However Ramos won’t ever co-operate with the authorities so he is still putting Etan’s parents through agony.

    Dan

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