100 Objects #9: Missing Children Milk Carton
The episode explores the cultural legacy of the missing children milk carton campaign, sparked by the 1982 disappearance of Johnny Gosch, and how it reshaped American fears around child abduction — often misdirecting attention from the more common reality of familial kidnappings and syste
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