When a child goes missing today, word is spread through an Amber Alert or digital missing persons poster — but national efforts to increase awareness of missing kids began four decades ago with a ...

Though suspicions had long surrounded Steven Pankey — a local man with ties to her church who later ran twice for the ...

President Ronald Reagan brought Jonelle’s search into the national spotlight as she became among the first in a ...

Dateline re-examined one of Colorado's most chilling cold cases—the vanishing of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews from her Greeley residence on Dec. 20, 1984.

The nationally coordinated Missing Children Milk Carton Program, initiated by the National Child Safety Council, came to life in December of 1984, the same month Jonelle disappeared. Despite Jonelle’s ...

Dateline returned to some of the most terrifying recent cold cases, and one of the most frightening is the case of Jonelle Matthews, who was 12 years old. She had been missing since December of 1984.

Dateline NBC will air a new episode this week on Friday, May 23, 2025, at 9 pm ET. The episode, titled Footprints in the Snow, is set to explore the decades-old case of Jonelle Matthews, a 12-year-old ...

Every May 25, the nation observes National Missing Children’s Day, a powerful reminder of the thousands of children who ...

To help spread the word, they even got Jonelle’s face on the side of a milk carton. Learn more about the Missing Children Milk Carton Program: As days turned into weeks and weeks to years ...

“Cow’s milk is now the most common fatal food allergy in kids,” warns a recently placed billboard. “Is your child next?” If that sounds scary, how about a billboard depicting a milk ...

the case attracted the attention of the White House and prompted President Ronald Reagan to make Jonelle one of the first missing children to be featured on milk cartons in his campaign to stop ...