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The article reports on updates in the war between Israel and Hamas, particularly on the conflict's impact to civilians by citing the case of 6-year-old girl Hind Rajab, who is believed to be trapped in a car in northern Gaza in Palestine.

The article focuses on Tammy Lacher Scully's persistent search for her son, Graham Lacher, who disappeared from a psychiatric hospital in Bangor, Maine, 18 months ago, highlighting the challenges faced by families of missing persons who are caught in a painful limbo.

The article reports the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Afghanistan, where many people are still searching for missing loved ones, leaving them in a painful state of uncertainty and powerlessness as they grapple with the loss of family members.

The article focuses on the safe recovery of a missing 9-year-old girl, Charlotte Sena, who disappeared during a camping trip in upstate New York. Topics include the intense 48-hour search, the arrest of a suspect, and the harrowing circumstances of Charlotte's disappearance. It reports that Charlotte was found safe, a suspect was in custody, and authorities were actively investigating the case, it mentions that the suspect's criminal record related to sexual abuse.

The article presents the discussion on Catherine Corless, the single shoe symbolizing the interrupted childhoods. Topics include beneath grass that for decades being a playground wherechildren ran and laughed and teased above the skeletal remains of other children; and enameling children depicting the Mary of nursery rhymes and her little lamb.

The article reports on the plight of hundreds of families in Mexico in the search for their missing daughters who are considered to be victims of drug cartels. It mentions the Colectivo Solecito a group of women whose children are missing and has unearthed more than 250 skulls at as site near Veracruz. It discusses the effects of searching loved ones in Mexico and the struggles that may Mexican parents undergo just to find their children.

This section offers global news briefs as of June 2023, including the recovery of four children after 40 days in the Colombian rainforest, the death of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a murderer that targets academics, businessmen and random civilians who uses homemade bombs from 1987 to 1995 and the victory of Novak Djokovic in the French Open men's singles championship.

The article reports that the skeletal remains of Kyle Clinkscales, who went missing in 1976, were discovered in a Ford Pinto submerged in a creek, and search for Kyle was an all-consuming quest for his parents, Louise and John Clinkscales, before the authorities made the discovery.

Reports on the child abuse charges against the guardians of the four-year-old Florida foster child, Rilya Wilson, whose disappearance remains unsolved.

The article discusses the issues regarding cases of missing babies and toddlers and nation's founding in 1948, new immigrants to Israel were placed in transit camps. It mentions demand for official government inquiry into the disappearance of the Yemenite babies and Israelis dismissed Rabbi Uzi Meshulam and the accusations as conspiracy theory of a religious radical. It also mentions reunification of family through DNA testing.

The article offers information that human remains discovered on an Idaho man's property, identified as belonging to his wife's two children who had been missing for months.

The article reports on the attack of militants on parents of girls who disappeared after their school in northern Nigeria in February 2018, heckled state officials and pummeled a motorcade after being told that their daughters had yet to be found despite government reports to the contrary.

The article looks at the influence of the abduction of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979, on his peers as they grew into adulthood and become parents. Particular focus is given to news coverage of the search for Patz and to fears of kidnapping and pedophilia in American culture. It is suggested that these fears have led to a culture of parental overprotection. Details on the 2015 trial of Pedro Hernandez, who was charged with killing Patz, are also presented.

The article discusses the testimony of Julie Patz, the mother of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old child who was murdered in New York City in 1979, at the trial of murder suspect Pedro Hernandez. Topics addressed include the impact of her son's murder and the subsequent criminal investigation and legal case on Julie Patz' life, her decision to allow her son to walk to the school bus by himself, and Etan Patz' trusting and outgoing personality.

The article reports on shooting of Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez of the organization Colectivo de Desaparecidos de San Fernando and an activist for parents of missing children after her daughter was kidnapped and murdered and views of state's governor, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca.

The article discusses a case of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York City related to Etan Patz, a six-year-old boy who disappeared when he walked alone for the first time in 1979, and mentions pertinence of celebration of National Missing Children's Day to mark his disappearance.

This article presents information about the life and death of 15-year-old Quashay Everett. Everett's body was found near the Kennedy Airport in New York City in March after she had been missing for 10 months. A cause of death has not yet been determined. Everett was the sister of Teisha who was abused by her mother, Marilyn Carter, in a notorious 1991 abuse case. Both sisters had been in foster homes together and Quashay seemed to be doing well. Her diary indicated that she may have left with someone who was involved in prostitution.

Focuses on how may parents have been separated from their children as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Description of the case of Lakerisha Boyd, who was still missing her youngest child almost two weeks after the storm; Report from officials that there is no way to estimate how many children have been severed from families; Review of how scores have been found wandering alone in search of lost adults; Five hundred new cases reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Reports that three missing boys were found dead in Camden, New Jersey. How the children were found in the trunk of a car by the father of one of the boys; The names of the boys: Anibal Cruz, Daniel Agosto, and Jesstin Pagan; Information about their disappearance and the investigation; Question of why bloodhounds used in the search did not pick up their scent.

The article offers information on the internet video Retro Report available at the website nytimes.com which features the story of Estela de Carlotto who spent decades searching for her grandson lost in Argentina in 1970s.

The article reports on the gathering of seven jurors of Etan Patz, who was disappeared in 1979, in Lower Manhattan, New York City on May 25, 2015 in the anniversary of his disappearance.

The article reports on the loss of the more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria with no signs that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is close to finding them.

The article reports on the 43 missing students of the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos, a small teacher's college in Ayotzinapa, Mexico following the student's protest on October 2, 2014.

The article reports on the disappearance of Nashaly Perez Rodriguez, a 15-year-old teenager with mood disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, from Lillian L. Rashkis School, a school for children with special needs in Brooklyn, New York.

The article reports on Jack McCullough, the killer of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph who disappeared in Sycamore, Illinois in 1958, was sentenced to serve the rest of his life in prison. Assistant state's attorney, Victor Escarcida who prosecute McCullough says that he was pleased by the investigation of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It mentions that the case was believed to be the oldest unsolved murder in the nation resulting to the arrest of the suspect.

GRANADA, Spain IT was more than a decade ago, as his taxi made its way through the troubled neighborhoods of Lima, that Dr. Jose A. Lorente, an expert in forensic genetics, first started thinking about the plight of street children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WHEN the director Bart Layton was researching the documentary ''The Imposter,'' he had an unsettling eureka moment. He was beginning to feel sympathy for his subject, a pathological liar who had apparently conned a family into believing that he was their missing boy. ''I was getting sucked into his story,'' Mr. Layton recalled. ''And I wanted the audience to experience that.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To the Editor: Re ''A New Wave of 'Lost Boys' in Sudan War'' (front page, July 1): [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

YIDA, South Sudan -- Thousands of unaccompanied children are streaming out of an isolated, rebellious region of Sudan, fleeing a relentless aerial assault and the prospect of famine. Sent by their parents on harrowing odysseys across battlefields and malaria-infested swamps, the children are repeating one of the most sordid chapters of Sudanese history: the perilous flight of the so-called Lost Boys during the civil war in the 1990s, who wandered hundreds of miles dodging militias, bombers and lions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As investigators questioned a one-time bodega worker, Pedro Hernandez, last month about the disappearance of Etan Patz, they showed him a picture of the child. At first, Mr. Hernandez, 51, averted his eyes from the image of the 6-year old boy, who was last seen walking to school on May 25, 1979. But by the end of the interrogation, Mr. Hernandez had not only looked at the picture; he had also signed his name across it and even written a brief confession on the picture, one law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the morning after Memorial Day in 1979, the sidewalks in the Manhattan neighborhood where Etan Patz lived would have been overflowing with trash accumulated over the long weekend, clumps of refuse from the homes and studios of artists and the few stores and restaurants that catered to them. Tracking the body of 6-year-old Etan, who vanished on the Friday before that holiday 33 years ago, from one of those piles to a faraway dump would be a painstaking quest if the records kept by the Sanitation Department went back that far. But on Tuesday, department officials said they could not now go back and track the movement of trash from curb to landfill before 1989, spoiling the Police Department's best hope of locating the boy's possible remains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prayer group met regularly at St. Anthony of Padua, a Roman Catholic church in Camden, N.J., where behind the modest brick facade impassioned, spontaneous, full-throated ''confessions'' were shared. These meetings took place in the early 1980s, during a boom in charismatic Christianity that encouraged the dozens of participants to feel the Holy Spirit and unburden themselves of guilt for their sins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pedro Hernandez, the man the authorities say has confessed to killing Etan Patz in a Manhattan bodega 33 years ago, has been prescribed at least one antipsychotic medication for ''a number of years,'' a person with knowledge of his mental history said on Saturday. That Mr. Hernandez, 51, has been taking medication for the treatment of psychotic symptoms emerged a day after his lawyer, Harvey Fishbein, said at an arraignment that his client had a lengthy psychiatric history including diagnoses of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, with visual and auditory hallucinations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The man breaks down and cries and says yes, I did it. I killed that 6-year-old boy 33 years ago. I did it. It should be a detective's dream come true. The police have their man, their investigation sewn up with a tidy bow of his own damning words. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Could it happen now? Could someone sinister pluck a small child off that same street at that same hour on the same day, so that he vanished into the ether for 33 years? It was May 25, 1979, when the 6-year-old Etan Patz went missing on Prince Street in SoHo. The long cold case gained fresh traction on Thursday when the police said Pedro Hernandez confessed to strangling the child in the basement of the bodega where he worked. Etan was walking to the school bus stop, barely two blocks from his home, the first time he went by himself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After 33 years of long waits and false starts, the investigation of Etan Patz's disappearance and the prosecution of the man who says he killed him moved with rapid force on Friday. Crime scene investigators swarmed the basement where the suspect, Pedro Hernandez, says he killed the boy; Mr. Hernandez was arraigned after being placed on a suicide watch; and new details emerged of his chilling confession -- he told investigators he choked Etan moments after luring him to the basement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

His specter loomed over the coziest of breakfast nooks, in the bleakest crevices of parents' minds and in the fretful warnings that tumbled from their lips: Remember the boy who disappeared. On Thursday, New York City revisited the case that has gripped it since the boy, Etan Patz, went missing 33 years ago, as Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kellyannounced the arrest of Pedro Hernandez, 51, in the killing. The 6-year-old boy's disappearance in SoHo in 1979 focused national attention on missing children and set off a long quest for answers that seemed never to come. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It began -- the uncertainty that darkened into anguish, the lurking sense of loss, the sudden expansion of people's vocabularies to encompass phrases like ''stranger danger'' -- on the day when a little boy talked his parents into saying yes to the kind of question every child asks, and when the answer is ''no, not yet,'' asks again and again: Can I walk to the bus stop by myself? Please? He had only a block and a half to go, past cast-iron storefronts and a long brick building that looked as if it might have been a stable when his grandfather was his age, which was 6. He knew that block and a half of SoHo, far grittier then than the tourist-filled street filled with upscale boutiques it would become. Every day for months, he had padded down the sidewalk and crossed the one street between his family's loft and the corner after that, where the bus stopped. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More than five years ago, well before investigators descended on a basement in SoHo in a search for evidence in the disappearance of Etan Patz, the decades-old case of the missing child was at a dead end. The F.B.I. agent who had the case, Michael Ferrandino, had just been promoted to head the bank robbery squad, and his cases needed to be reassigned. The Patz case, with little progress in years, was at risk of being closed. Instead, Agent Ferrandino gave the case to a relatively junior agent, Thomas MacDonald, with the instructions, ''See what you can do with it.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]