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The Halloween Poisoner

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Number of Missing Children in the United States

According to the FBI, there were 425,000 reports of missing children in the US in 2018. But about half these cases were a custody dispute. The number of actual kidnappings in the United States is between 100 and 150 per year. Children are much less at risk from predatory strangers than they are from cars or guns or their own families.

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