Lisa R. Cohen is an Emmy award winning television news magazine producer with over twenty years in network news, including ABC News PrimeTime Live and CBS News “60 Minutes.” Her just released, first book, AFTER ETAN: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive (Grand Central May ’09) is the only book ever written on the iconic, culture-shifting Etan Patz mystery.

Cohen is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and recently was a Princeton University Ferris Professor of Journalism.

Blog Entries by Lisa Cohen

A Plea for Somer's Family, and Some Shared Humanity

Posted October 23, 2009 | 11:43 AM (EST)


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This morning murdered seven year old Somer Thompson's mother spoke out on the morning shows with remarkable composure.

These are such horrible stories, made worse by the inevitable media onslaught. The press is so important at a time like...

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Left Behind: Jaycee Dugard's Family

3 Comments | Posted October 15, 2009 | 06:36 PM (EST)


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Jaycee Dugard's smiling adult face is everywhere this week. I've been thinking a lot about her story anyway, because of the similarities to the Etan Patz case, which I've spent the last five years living and breathing for the first-ever book written...

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The Mystery of Steven Damman

13 Comments | Posted June 25, 2009 | 05:02 PM (EST)


The DNA tests proved it. Fifty-three year old John Barnes is not long lost toddler Stephen Damman, missing since 1955 after his mother briefly left him outside a Long Island bakery, something she has now lived to regret for over 50 years. As much as I'm sorry that the Dammans...

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