Court overturns conviction in case of Etan Patz, Jewish 6-year-old whose 1979 disappearance riveted America
Etan was one of the first missing children to be pictured on milk cartons
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Fast Forward Etan Patz’s Father To Murderer: ‘I Will Never Forgive You’
The father of murdered six-year-old Etan Patz warned convicted killer Pedro Hernandez: “I will never fortive you.” “After all these years, we finally know what dark secret you kept locked in your heart,” Stanley Patz told Hernandez, who was found guilty of the infamous 1979 abduction and murder. “You took our precious child and threw…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Man Gets 25 Years To Life For 1979 Murder Of Etan Patz
A former delicatessen worker convicted of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in a 1979 New York slaying that helped raise national awareness about the plight of abducted children was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison. Pedro Hernandez, 56, showed no emotion as he was handed the maximum allowed sentence for the murder…
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Fast Forward Guilty Verdict Upheld In Etan Patz Murder Trial
A New York state judge on Thursday rejected a request from a former delicatessen worker to throw out his February conviction for murdering Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy whose disappearance in 1979 became one of the country’s most infamous missing child cases. The decision paves the way for Pedro Hernandez, 56, to be sentenced on…
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Fast Forward Deli Worker Convicted In Notorious Etan Patz Murder
A New York City jury on Tuesday found a former delicatessen worker guilty of murdering Etan Patz, a six-year-old boy whose disappearance in 1979 raised national awareness of the plight of abducted children and their parents. The conviction of Pedro Hernandez, 56, came during his second trial in state court. It followed a 2015 mistrial…
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Fast Forward Etan Patz Family Wants Sex Fiend Sprung — Retrial of Other Suspect Looms
The family of Etan Patz, the Jewish boy whose 1979 disappearance became national news, is convinced that Jose Ramos, the sex offender who was convicted in 2004 is innocent — so much so that they’ve filed court papers to have him sprung. The reports that Stan Patz filed an affidavit with the State Supreme Court…
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Fast Forward Deli Worker Faces Retrial in Etan Patz Murder
Pedro Hernandez will be tried again for the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz after a mistrial was declared earlier this month because a jury was unable to reach a verdict, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. told MSNBC on Monday. Decades after the boy went missing from his Soho neighborhood in Manhattan, in a…
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Fast Forward Jury Starts Deliberating in Etan Patz Murder Case
(Reuters) — A jury on Wednesday began deliberations in the trial of a former grocery worker accused of kidnapping and murdering a missing New York boy, whose 1979 disappearance galvanized national attention to the issue of missing and abducted children. Pedro Hernandez, 54, confessed to police in 2012 that he choked 6-year-old Etan Patz, stuffed…
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