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"Eric" is a gripping and occasionally hallucinatory series set in 1980s New York, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Gaby Hoffmann as the parents of a missing child. The series is inspired by the real-life case of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old who disappeared in 1979. The story delves into themes such as the homeless crisis, the AIDS epidemic, predatory pedophiles, and missing children on milk cartons. While the later sequences of the show become increasingly silly, the performances by Cumberbatch and Hoffmann, particularly Hoffmann's portrayal of a grieving mother, are powerful and heartbreaking. [Extracted from the article]

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 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 the confession of 49-year-old Annugetta Pettway of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in kidnapping Carlina White in 1987 in Harlem Hospital in New York City. White was two weeks old when she was kidnapped by Pettway. Pettaway admitted the abduction due to her difficulty to bear her own child. A DNA test also revealed that White was one of the infants listed on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's website.

The article reports on the Amber Ready Back to School Safety Weekend event by America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Ready Inc. on August 15 and 16, 2009 at Times Square, New York City. AMBER Ready is a movement for missing and abducted children throughout the U.S. Rave-Symone, Dough E. Fresh, and other celebrities will come to the weekend event that represents the culmination of six years of research, planning, and product development.

The article reports on the increasing number of missing children in New York due to human trafficking. According to Marquez Claxton, a retired detective, lots of missing people and alleged runaways are victims who are profiting off their sexual labor from criminal groups. There have been a growing number of missing females since 2008 with 94% with ages 13 and up while the number of missing males makes up 40% of the total number of missing people.

There's something perhaps inadvertently timely about ''Bunny Lake Is Missing,'' now at the Brick in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This stage noir, about a single mother's desperate search for her 3-year-old daughter after she disappears from nursery school, speaks to parental anxiety in an age when child abuse seems rife. The play -- based on Evelyn Piper's 1957 pulp mystery (the source for Otto Preminger's 1965 screen adaptation) -- derives tension from its resonant, inescapable subtext. Blanche Lake (Victoria Anne Miller) arrives at a New York school to pick up her daughter, only to be informed by teachers (Olivia Baseman and Vanessa FitzGerald) and a principal (Josephine Cashman) that the child was never enrolled there. Suspected of being a delusional hysteric, Blanche is referred to a sympathetic psychologist (Ken Simon, the show's producer, playwright and, with Patrice Miller, co-director). But when all avenues prove fruitless, she turns to a writer friend (Walter Brandes) as the question of her sanity looms ever larger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When day broke on Wednesday in Borough Park, Brooklyn, the swarms of volunteers went home defeated, and the detritus of a frantic 36-hour search for a missing boy lay strewn by the curb. There were plastic water jugs, napkins and fliers outside the brick apartment building where Leiby Kletzky and his family lived on 15th Avenue, in the heart of the Hasidic neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For parents of missing children, any scrap of information that could lead to an abductor is precious. Three years into an excruciating search for her abducted son, Susan Lau got such a tip. Her estranged husband, who had absconded with their 9-year-old from Brooklyn, had apparently filed a tax return claiming the boy as an exemption. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Police officers responding to a report of a missing 2-week-old at Kings County Hospital Center on Sunday found the child dead at its mother's home in Brooklyn, the authorities said. The police said early Monday that there were no charges as yet. Because there were no immediate charges, the police said they could not release the address in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens where the baby was found. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I ALWAYS knew something would happen to one of my children. I never said it out loud. I didn't allow myself to dwell on it. But the feeling was there: a vague superstition that visited me on my paranoid days, the kind of day that would find me in my children's rooms at midnight, making sure they were still breathing. Some of this superstition is in my heritage; I'm from a long line of Slavs, from what used to be Czechoslovakia, where a lot of people believe in curses. But my fear is bolstered by the fact that both my mother and my mother's mother have lost children in devastating ways. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the court ruling against convicted pedophile Jose Ramos for the death of six-year-old Etan Patz, who disappeared in 1979 near his home in SoHo, New York City. Wrongful death lawsuit filed by Patz's family against Ramos; Reasons behind Ramos' imprisonment; Evidence used against Ramos in the Patz case.

Reports that Officer James Phillips found Deniro Rhumble, two years old, in the back seat of his mother Judith Alveranga's stolen and abandoned car in Hempstead, New York. Details of the child's disappearance, which prompted a police dragnet; Belief that the child's abductor did not realize the toddler was in the back of the vehicle; Possibility of endangerment charges against Alveranga, who had left the car engine running while picking up takeout food; Background on the investigation.

Reports on the broad search of the waters and islands around City Island in Bronx, New York City launched by the Coast Guard on January 25, 2003 for four missing boys.

Reports on the reunion of a girl, who was abducted by a family friend, with her mother on July 19, 2002 in Brooklyn, New York City.

Reports a court declaration that Etan Patz, who disappeared when he was six is legally dead after a 22-year search in New York City.

Discusses the efforts of the Russini family of Westbury, New York in finding a lost son who was reunited with them on February 27, 2001. INSET: Defending the 2 Suspects That He Still..., by Michael Janofsky.

Reports on the search by the New York City police for the family of an unidentified toddler found wandering alone in a Coney Island housing complex on August 21, 2000. Description of the child; Comment from the child; How the child was found.

Reports on the search for French teenager Gregoire Madignier, who was separated from his father, Pierre on a Midtown subway platform in New York City on July 15, 2000. Information on the incident; Description of the boy; Statement issued by his father.

Reports that a teenage boy had been presumed dead after a boat capsized off Long Island, New York in May 1999. Details on the incident; Search conducted in the area.

Focuses on the search for Maureen Lynch, a 14-year-old missing girl in New York, New York. Place where the girl was found; Reason for the decision of the girl not to go home according to detectives; Belief of Mary and Robert Lynch, on their daughter's disappearance; How Maureen was discovered missing.

Focuses on the search of Isabelle Pelham for his son Keith Pelham that has been prolonged by the negligence of the city of New York in keeping the tax records, legal papers and other important information of people. People that helped Isabelle in searching for his son; Testimonies made by the witness on the effect of the lost of Keith to Isabelle; Decision of the judge on the case.

Reports that the body of a child found at the edge of the Saw Mill River Parkway was identified as that of Orlandito Rosario-Maldonado, a 12-year-old boy from Yonkers, New York. How the boy's body was found; Suspect in the case; Criticism on the police's response to complaints regarding the boy's disappearance.

Reports that police in New York are seeking information on an 11-year-old girl from Chinatown, who went missing on May 13, 1997. What police Lieutenant Robert Groth said; Description of the girl; Information on the girl's family.

Reports the lifting of infant from the Bronx hospital on October 10, 1994. Information about the issue of custody of the baby.

Shows a picture of divers searching for Raychelle Ortiz, 4, in New York City's East River. The child has been missing since May 3, 1994.

Refers to an article on page B5 (Volunteers search park for girl, 14) concerning the search for Suri Feldman, a 14-year-old Brooklyn girl who disappeared on May 4 during a stop at Bigelow Hollow State Park in Conn., while on a field trip.

Reports the discovery of children in Bear Mountain State Park, New York, on April 19, 1995, after they were reported missing on April 19, 1995 during hiking. Note on the incident; Names of children.

Reports that a two month old baby found missing since March 5, 1995 from Washington Heights, New York, was found at Pennsylvania Station on March 6, 1995. Arrest of Marco Vargas.

Reports the discovery of a skeleton in a grave in Bronx on March 1, 1995, which is believed to be that of a missing four-year old Queens girl, Raychelle Ortiz. Information about the missing girl.

Cites the discovery of the body of a teen-age girl missing since February 2, 1995, at St. Nicholas Park in Harlem on February 12, 1995.

Reports that Project Return's Women in Crisis, an organization in New York City, New York, is offering free Video ID's of children that can be used to help identify children if they are lost or missing. When the sessions will take place; Information on the organization.

Reports on the successful search for 12-year-old Willie Kirk who was missing since November 15, 1995. Location last seen; Reason behind Kirk's attempt to stay away from home.

Presents brief news from the metropolitan areas in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Crash of a driverless Ford Explorer into the Superior Court building in Norwalk, Connecticut; Identification of a young girl found dead on a Bronx street; Installation of carbon filtration systems on two contaminated wells in New Jersey.

States that Brooklyn detectives are investigating how no one for 15 months, from the New York City Welfare Administration or the school system, noticed the disappearance of eight year old Justina Morales, who might have been killed in November 1995. How detectives were notified of Justina's possible death; Second investigation conducted by child welfare officials school authorities; Further information on case.

Reports on the finding of three young boys from Bronx, New York City, who disappeared on August 18, 1996. Mischievous journey to Coney Island; Ending of 24-hour search by the police.

Focuses on the efforts of the New York City Police to search for the three young boys who have been missing since they went out to play in their Bronx neighborhood last August 19, 1996. Names of the missing boys; Broadcast of the boys' description on police radios; Concerns over their safety and health.