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A Judge Gave a One-Word Answer. It Torpedoed the Etan Patz Case.
After an appeals court overturned a conviction, prosecutors must decide whether to retry a man in the notorious 1979 child ...
What to know about the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz and the hunt for his killer
The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz was one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases. The six-year-old Manhattan ...
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The Etan Patz case changed how America responds to missing kids
Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while walking to a school bus stop in 1979. The publicity of the case led to a societal ...
A Timeline of the Etan Patz Case
It has been 46 years since 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared in SoHo. After a lawsuit and two criminal trials, questions ...
Man convicted of killing Etan Patz, one of the first children featured on missing milk carton, gets sentence tossed
Disappearance of Etan Patz became national news in the 1970s with Patz becoming one of the first to be featured on a milk ...
Etan Patz conviction being thrown out brings another prime suspect back into the picture
The missing child case of six-year-old Etan Patz ushered in the “stranger danger” era and a reckoning across the US as to how ...
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Etan Patz’s Case Haunted New York. It’s Still Not Over.
An appellate court decision overturning the conviction of Pedro Hernandez once again puts the shocking disappearance of a ...
Etan Patz case: 1979 disappearance of NYC boy continues to haunt investigators
"48 Hours" goes inside the painstaking investigation through the eyes of those who have spent more than three decades trying ...