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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 ...

Court overturns guilty verdict in 1979 Etan Patz case that drew attention to missing children

A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of the man who was found guilty in 2017 of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz ...
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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 ...

Man Convicted in Etan Patz Murder Should Be Retried or Released, Appeals Court Rules

Pedro Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years to life after confessing to the 1979 murder of the 6-year-old first-grader.

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 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 ...