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29 NBC, “Today Show,” 15 June 1995. Regarding “America’s Most Wanted”: Gray Cavender and Lisa Bond-Maupin, “Fear and Loathing on Reality Television,” Sociological Inquiry 63 (1993): 305-17. Examples of other coverage around Missing Children’s Day: Rob Haeseler, “Many Questions Whether Databases Help or Hurt,” San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 1995, p. A1; “American Agenda” segment, “ABC World News Tonight,” 25 May 1995. For another example of more recent coverage see Tom Gorman, “A Parent’s Worst Fear Come True,” Los Angeles Times, 26 April 1997, pp. A1, 16, 17.
30 Dale Russakoff, “The Power of Grief,” Washington Post National Edition, 22 June 1998, p. 27.
31 Louise Continelli, “A Father Fights Back,” Buffalo News, 5 July 1998, p. M 16. For skeptical reporting about the Walsh murder see Grelen, “Sorting Out Myth”; Kent Andrade, “Crimes of the Hearth,” LA Village View, 2 June 1995, pp. 7, 9.
32 “Geraldo,” 13 January 1997 and 4 December 1997.
33 Ernie Allen, “Missing Children,” USA Today Magazine, July 1994, pp. 46-48.
34 Paula Statman, On the Safe Side (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), p. 119.
35 Wooden, Child Lures; CBS, “48 Hours,” 7 December 1995. On “The Mark War-berg Show” (18 December 1995) and ABC’s “Primetime Live” (6 April 1997) Wooden staged mock abductions from playgrounds. Wooden’s activities in previous decades: Philip Jenkins, Using Murder (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994), pp. 127, 198-99.
36 Angela Mickalide, “Creating Safer Environments for Children,” Childhood Education 70 (1994): 263-67; Best, Threatened Children, p. 125.
37 Marilyn Ivy, “Have You Seen Me? Recovering the Inner Child in Late Twentieth-Century America,” in S. Stephens, ed., Children and the Politics of Culture (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
38 Ibid.; Bettijane Levine, “For Sale: A Sense of Security,” Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1995, pp. E1—2.
39 Levine, “For Sale.”
40 Except as otherwise specified, information on Ideon and the Network from Rob Haeseler, “Credit Card Protection Firm Turns to Missing Kids,” San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 1995, p. A1; Sam Stanton, “Critics Find Fault in Missing Kids Service,” Sacramento Bee, 25 May 1995, p. A1; Haeseler, “Many Questions”; Levine, “For Sale”; and information provided by the company and contained in their advertisements.
41 Barbara Kantrowitz, “Stalking the Children,” Newsweek, 20 December 1993, pp. 28-29; Haeseler, “Many Questions” (contains Swartz quotes).
42 Rob Haeseler, “Missing Child Service Being Sued,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 1995, p. A9.
43 Peter Annin, “‘Superpredators’ Arrive,” Newsweek, 22 January 1996, p. 57; Barbara Kantrowitz and Connie Leslie, “Wild in the Streets,” Newsweek, 2 August 1993, pp. 40—47; Michele Ingrassia, “Life Means Nothing,” Newsweek, 19 July 1993, pp. 16-17; Bettijane Levine, “A New Wave of Mayhem,” Los Angeles Times, 6 September 1995, pp. El, 4 (contains quote).
44 Statistic from Steven Holmes, “It’s Awful, It’s Terrible,” New York Times, 6 July 1997, p. E3; quote from Kenneth Noble, “Mistaken Killing of Three Teen-Agers Erodes a California City’s Confidence,” New York Times, 2 December 1994, p. A11.
45 Noble, “Mistaken Killing.” Additional information is from my own observations in Pasadena and reports in Pasadena community publications and other local media.
46 Dale Kunkel, “How the News Media ‘See’ Kids,” Media StudiesJournal8 (Fall 1994): 74-84.
47 Lori Dorfman et al., “Youth and Violence on Local Television News in California,” American Journal ofPublicHealth87 (1997): 1311-16.
48 Isabel Wilkerson, “2 Boys, a Debt, a Gun, a Victim: The Face of Violence,” New York Times, 16 May 1994, pp. A1, C10—11. See also Levine, “New Wave of Mayhem”; Dean Wright, “Alarming Rise in Kids Who Kill,” Los Angeles Times, 16 August 1992, pp.