Man charged with 2nd-degree murder in Etan Patz case [View all]
Source: USA Today
On the 33rd anniversary of 6-year-old Etan Patz disappearance from a New York City neighborhood, prosecutors on Friday charged a former convenience store clerk with 2nd-degree murder.
Etan vanished in the two blocks between his Manhattan home and his school bus stop on May 25, 1979, prompting an intense, months long search and launching a national movement to find missing children. Etan's photograph was among the first to appear on milk cartons.
Pedro Hernandez told police he promised a soda to lure the boy into the small grocery where he worked. Hernandez, then 18, led Etan to the basement where he choked him to death, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. Hernandez, now 51 and living in Maple Shade, N.J., told police he put the child's body in a plastic bag with some trash. Police have not found the body.
Kelly said they don't know why Hernandez allegedly killed the child. Authorities say they have a detailed, signed confession from Hernandez and corroborating accounts from relatives and friends who heard Hernandez admit that he'd "done something bad" to a child in New York City.
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