Judge orders new trial in famous case of boy murdered in 1979 Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz in 1979, should be retried or released, a federal appeals ...

Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz in 1979, should be retried or released, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based ...

But on Monday, a federal appeals court overturned the conviction because of how the trial judge handled a note from the jury during Hernandez’s second trial, which took place in 2017 — the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A February trial date is set for a man who faces the death penalty if convicted on charges of killing three people in a daylong series of shootings in Memphis that was ...

Because of the lack of physical evidence, the trial -- Hernandez's second, after the first jury hung -- hinged entirely on Hernandez's purported confessions to luring Etan into a basement as he walked ...

Ron Frehm/AP - PHOTO: Stanly Patz, along with his son Ari, holds a photo of his son Etan, in New York, May 18, 1985. Etan Patz vanished in 1979 after leaving his family's SoHo home for a short ...