Question: who was the first missing person on a milk carton
Answer: Etan Kalil Patz ( / ˈeɪtɑːn ˈpeɪts / , born October 9 , 1972 , declared legally dead in 2001 ) was an American boy who was six years old on May 25 , 1979 when he disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan .