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…
A New Jersey man who confessed to the 1979 killing of Etan Patz should stand trial for murder and kidnapping in the 6-year-old boy’s disappearance, a judge ruled on Wednesday. An attorney for Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, had asked the judge to throw out the indictment, arguing that the confession alone…
The man who confessed to killing Etan Patz – the 6-year-old boy who vanished from his New York neighborhood three decades ago – was due in court on Wednesday and expected to enter a plea in the child’s murder. Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, admitted in May he lured the boy and…
The man who confessed to the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz made a brief courtroom appearance on Thursday, standing silently in a gray T-shirt as a prosecutor told the judge that murder charges had been formally filed nearly three decades after the slaying. Pedro Hernandez, 51, did not enter a plea during the hearing…
Police in New York say they have man in custody who has implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the Jewish boy snatched off the streets of his lower Manhattan neighborhood. The suspect is Pedro Hernandez, 51, a former bodega clerk from Patz’s SoHo neighborhood, the Daily News reported. He now lives in…
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