World & Nation
New York police say Pedro Hernandez admitted killing 6-year-old Etan Patz.
Nov. 7, 2012
A former store clerk was convicted Tuesday in one of the nation’s most haunting missing-child cases, nearly 38 years after 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while heading to his New York City school bus stop.
Feb. 14, 2017
Opinion
A judge in New York City declared a mistrial Friday in the case of Pedro Hernandez, a disabled factory worker charged in one of the most famous child abductions in modern memory: the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz more than 30 years ago.
May 14, 2015
New York City police say Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, N.J., admits to killing 6-year-old Etan Patzboy 33 years ago as a teen store clerk in SoHo.
April 19, 2012
Almost four decades after first-grader Etan Patz set out for school and ended up at the heart of one of America’s most influential missing-child cases, a former store clerk convicted of killing him was sentenced Tuesday to at least 25 years in prison.
April 18, 2017
For the second time in its deliberations, a jury Tuesday declared itself unable to reach a verdict in the trial of a man charged with abducting and killing Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who vanished 36 years ago, but the judge told them to keep trying.
May 5, 2015
The videotaped confessions of a New Jersey man charged with murdering Etan Patz, the 6-year-old who vanished in 1979 on his way to his school bus stop in Manhattan, can be used in court, a New York judge has ruled.
Nov. 24, 2014
A New York jury on Wednesday began deliberations in the trial of a New Jersey man accused of abducting and killing 6-year-old Etan Patz nearly 36 years ago - one of the nation’s most high-profile missing child cases.
April 15, 2015
The mother of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who vanished on his way to school nearly 36 years ago, retook the witness stand Tuesday in the trial of her son’s accused killer as prosecutors sought to undermine defense claims that police arrested the wrong man.
March 31, 2015
Documents recently discovered from the investigation in a missing boy’s case dating back 36 years include notes from a police officer’s interviews with people who claimed to have seen the child, Etan Patz, in the apartment building of a man other than the defendant on trial for murder.
Feb. 24, 2015