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D.A. Who Led Etan Patz Case Says Conviction Reversal Came as a Shock

Cyrus Vance prosecuted Pedro Hernandez twice. An appeals court overturned the conviction, ruling that the trial judge should ...

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.

Who was Etan Patz? Who is Pedro Hernandez? The 1979 news as it happened

Etan Patz disappeared while walking to his Manhattan school bus stop alone for the first time on May 25, 1979. Pedro ...

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 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 ...

Man convicted of killing Etan Patz, one of the first boys featured on missing milk carton, gets sentence tossed

Man convicted of killing Etan Patz, one of the first boys featured on missing milk carton, gets sentence tossed - ...