Update on man arrested in Etan Patz case:

[Are_grits_groceries]

NYT Metro Desk (@NYTMetro)
5/24/12 10:04 AM
Breaking: Suspect in Patz case, in custody, says he strangled boy, put body in box, according to confession to police, officials say.

I hope this ends it. Those parents have been and are in hell.

[obamanut2012]

1. Me too, and how very heartbreaking

[rustydog]

2. I do not know what I would do if I heard 33 years later

the killer of my child confessed. Right now I grieve for the parents of Etan Patz and I hope they now have some sense of closure.

If I learned some vile animal choked my baby to death, the horror, the helplessness my loved one had to endure until the loss of consciousness saved him from further horrors...I do not know what I would do to the murderer 30+ years later.

[struggle4progress]

3. ... The development came just before the Friday anniversary of the boy's disappearance,

when detectives traditionally receive a landslide of hoaxes and false leads related to the case ...

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/man_implicates_self_in_etan_pa.html