Why has the family not kept his name out there? From a lot of what I have read, the Patzes grew tired of meeting with new investigators. I'm sorry, but I wouldn't care if I had to repeat the same information over and over, at least it would keep his name out there.
Look, at the risk of being out of line here, and knowing that I have exactly three posts on this board, that I only joined to be able to supply concrete facts and clear up some misconceptions, and that the FBI is taking up right now and going back home with their toys, I think this comment, and others you have made in this vein, is way out of line.
This poor kid disappeared
thirty-three years ago.
He would be
39 now.
He was declared legally dead twelve years ago.
He is dead.
He is not coming home.
He is not going to be found (though some traces of his body may be).
These poor people have been through H-E--.
They are elderly now, and will go to their graves with their sadness, but their lives, and those of their children and grandchildren must go on.
Also, enough with the celebrity movie-location nonsense.
New York is not a movie set.
It is these people's home, and the home of millions of other people, who really do not care a whit about whether this or that place was in some movie or TV show, or whether some actor ate there, or, even, to be clear, whether that actor is eating at the next table over right now.
It is also the world center of media, which means constantly encountering streets closed by wise-guy 20-year-old gaffers and best-boys with walkie-talkies trying to prevent them from walking down their own streets because of some show they're filming, as well as having the press descend any time anything "interesting," like this investigation, occurs.
The Patzes have, I am sure, had it with all this press nonsense.
You may not understand what it is like to have reporters calling, ringing your doorbell, and accosting you on the street every time you go out to get a bagel, but it is the sort of thing that could drive a person insane.
And remember, this child is dead.
The press is not there to try to help finding a "lost" 39-year-old.
They are there to sensationalize this family's loss and make money from it, which, if you will observe, is something this family itself has never done.
I believe that the Patzes have behaved honorably and gracefully throughout this entire unending episode of 33 years, and to this day I grieve for their loss.
I apologize if this post violates this board's conventions, but I just couldn't keep quiet anymore.