30 years later..Wheres Etan Patz?

[JackBurton]

 

[TheMorningStar]

Investigators have turned up three new boxes of evidence in the Etan Patz disappearance case, during a trial for the boy's murder.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Three boxes of evidence from the investigation into the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz have turned up while a suspect is on trial for the killing, and his attorney said Monday that she may have to seek a mistrial or at least recall witnesses who have already testified.

Alice Fontier, one of the attorneys representing Pedro Hernandez, said there were more than 1,400 pages of relevant information in one box alone.

"Given this massive disclosure at this point, in the middle of the trial, there may be issues," she said. "We may need to recall some of their witnesses, we may need to move for a mistrial."

The boxes were found recently at a Harlem police station that covers public housing complexes in the area, prosecutors said late last week. The location is miles from the precinct near where Etan disappeared on May 25, 1979, as he walked to school. Etan's body has never been found.

The boxes contain police records from the investigation, notes from assistant district attorneys who worked on the case and handwritten memos from a detective who investigated Jose Ramos, a longtime suspect in the case who was never charged. Some of the information involves two informants who were working with prosecutors to try to link Ramos to Etan's death. Other boxes contain missing-person posters, records of people arrested and catalogs of files made by the original detective on the case.

"There appears to be hundreds of pages of handwritten notes," Fontier said.

Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzi-Orbon said last week that prosecutors were working to turn over the information to the defense attorneys. They are still working on copying one box, she said Monday.

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/...n-patz-case-found-in-police-station/21145805/

 

[Krystal]

Pedro Hernandez's first trial ended in a hung jury, the judge sets 2016 retrial.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...atz_n_7557130.html?utm_hp_ref=missing-persons

 

[Amandascott]

http://www.people.com/article/etan-patz-case-retrial-father-speaks

 

[Forensicwx]

http://www.people.com/article/etan-patz-case-retrial-father-speaks

Etan has a thread here
http://www.dreamindemon.com/community/threads/30-years-later-wheres-etan-patz.18749/page-3
I reported it so that a mod can merge them.

 

[Victoria]

How could you not be heartbroken for this mother who has endured so much and waited so long for some modicum of justice for Etan. And now she must face the retrial. God give her the grace and strength to endure a little longer. <3

 

[Farty McFly]

The prosecutor who last year led the first effort to convict Pedro Hernandez of murdering Etan Patz that ended with a hung jury will be allowed to participate in his retrial this year, a Supreme Court judge in Manhattan ruled on Tuesday.

http://www.newsday.com/news/new-yor...-retry-pedro-hernandez-judge-rules-1.11394622

 

[Satanica]

http://6abc.com/news/maple-shade-man-guilty-in-murder-of-6-year-old-etan-patz/1754214/

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Pedro Hernandez showed no reaction as jurors delivered their verdict. Another jury had deadlocked following 18 days of deliberation in 2015, leading to a retrial that spanned more than three months. Hernandez, who once worked in a convenience store in Etan's neighborhood, had confessed, but his lawyers said his admissions were the false imaginings of a mentally ill man.

This time, the jury deliberated over nine days before finding Hernandez, 56, guilty of murder during a kidnapping in a case that shaped both parenting and law enforcement practices in the United States.

Some of the jurors from the first trial attended the second one, and several of them wept Tuesday as the verdict was read. The slain boy's father, Stan Patz, was being comforted by the ex-jurors and appeared to wipe tears from his eyes.
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After police finally came to Hernandez' Maple Shade, New Jersey, door, he confessed, saying he'd offered Etan a soda to get him into the store basement, choked him, put him - still alive - in a box and left it with a pile of curbside trash.

"Something just took over me," Hernandez said in one of a series of recorded confessions to police and prosecutors. He said he'd wanted to tell someone, "but I didn't know how to do it. I felt so sorry."

Prosecutors cast his confession as the chillingly believable words of a man unburdening himself, and they argued it was buttressed by the less specific admissions he'd made earlier to his relatives and acquaintances.

Defense lawyers and doctors portrayed Hernandez as man with psychological problems and intellectual limitations that made him struggle to tell reality from fantasy - and made him susceptible to confessing falsely after more than six hours of questioning before recording began. His daughter testified that he talked about seeing visions of angels and demons and once watered a dead tree branch, believing it would grow.

"Pedro Hernandez is an odd, limited and vulnerable man," defense lawyer Harvey Fishbein said in his closing argument. "Pedro Hernandez is an innocent man."

Prosecutors have suggested Hernandez faked or exaggerated his symptoms.

 

[Victoria]

New York (CNN)A New York jury, with the conviction Tuesday of a bodega clerk in the 1979 kidnapping and killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz, brought to a close what a prosecutor called one of the city's "oldest and most painful unsolved crimes."

The guilty verdict against Pedro Hernandez, 56, in connection with a murder that sparked an era of heightened awareness of crimes against children, marks the end of an agonizing wait of nearly 38 years for Etan's parents.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/us/etan-patz-case-conviction/index.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...aches-verdict-etan-patz-murder-case/97894676/

Tears of thankfulness for the Patz family.

 

[Satanica]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...patz-in-1979-gets-25-years-to-life/ar-BBzYERb

NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) - A former delicatessen worker who killed 6-year-old New York City boy Etan Patz in a 1979 slaying that helped raise national awareness about the plight of abducted children was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison.

Pedro Hernandez, 56, showed no emotion as he was given the sentence for murder by Justice Maxwell Wiley in Manhattan state court. Hernandez was also sentenced to 25 years to life for kidnapping, with both sentences to run concurrently. A jury found him guilty of the charges in February. (Reporting by Laila Kearney in New York; Writing by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Chris Reese)
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[Pandorama]

I don’t think he killed him. The other guy did.
But the ‘quickly strangled’ story is more palatable than the ‘sexually abused to death’ story.