Etan Patz, Child abduction
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An appellate court decision overturning the conviction of Pedro Hernandez once again puts the shocking disappearance of a little boy in the spotlight.
The missing child case of six-year-old Etan Patz ushered in the “stranger danger” era and a reckoning across the US as to how disappearances are handled. Even though a conviction was secured in 2017,
"Time is not the prosecution's friend," said Michael J. Brown, a Long Island defense attorney who represents alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann.