Just Another Missing Kid

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Just Another Missing Kid (1981)

Directed by John Zaritsky

Documentary · 1h 30m

On July 10, 1978, Eric Wilson - a 19-year from Ottawa and student at Tufts University - left home to drive to a summer college course in Colorado. When he went missing four days afterward in Nebraska, his family tried to persuade local and U.S. police that he wasn't simply a runaway and hadn't simply forgotten to call home. The program examines the lengths to which they had to go to find out what happened to Eric, and the byzantine nature of the legal system which seemed less interested in pursuing justice than in avoiding the expenses involved in the investigation and potential trials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in 2007.

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Director
John Zaritsky

Details

Release date
1981-04-07
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
Canada