On October 5, 1986, the New York Times published the closest thing to an honest tally the milk carton campaign produced. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children knew of 107 children located because somebody recognized a picture of them, at least four of those from a milk carton. The National Child Safety Council's own estimate of cartons then in circulation was two billion to three and a half billion, down from a peak it put at three to five billion. [ Read More ]
The Milk Carton Kids: What Actually Happened to the Photographs That Haunted the 1980s
