D.A. Who Led Etan Patz Case Says Conviction Reversal Came
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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.
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FOX 5 New York on MSNWho was Etan Patz? Who is Pedro Hernandez? The 1979 news as it happened
Etan Patz disappeared while walking to his Manhattan school bus stop alone for the first time on May 25, 1979. Pedro Hernandez was arrested in 2012. He was convicted of murder and kidnapping in 2017 and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
"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.
The 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz as he walked alone to his New York City bus stop for the first time shook the country and still resonates in the present.
Man convicted of killing Etan Patz, one of the first boys featured on missing milk carton, gets sentence tossed - Disappearance of Etan Patz became national news in the 1970s with Patz becoming one of