Just Another Missing Kid

Episode aired Dec 1982
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

136

YOUR RATING

News Documentary

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... Read allOn 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 runa... Read allOn 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 th... Read all

Director
- John Zaritsky
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

136

YOUR RATING

Director
- John Zaritsky
Stars

5User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Originally produced for the Canadian television series The Fifth Estate (1975).

Quotes
Jim Conway: It's not like television, where they do it in an hour before commercials. It's not like that at all.

Alternate versions
Originally broadcast on "Fifth Estate, The" (1975).

Connections
References All in the Family (1971)

User reviews5

Featured review

10/10

An awesome flick!

Somehow I vdeotaped this back in the early 1980's perhaps on HBO?? What a moving story about something that could happen to anybody. The frustration of the family getting no cooperation from the law, the law protecting every right of the criminal, the justice system cutting deals to avoid court costs, the system allowing this loser out of prison to begin with, and the pursuit of a private investigator.

I think I need to dig the VHS out of my collection and revisit this riveting story.

Perhaps it should be covered on A&E's Cold Case Files or better yet, American Justice (or lack of it)!

Great performances by the real people (not professional actors).