Good find. Mr. Othneil Miller's status as a person of interest just solidified if the niece is telling the truth.Snipped
The niece of the new suspect in the Etan Patz disappearance has corroborated claims that he raped her when she was a child, law enforcement sources say.
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The FBI searched in vain for the niece but early this week found her, and she corroborated the ex-wifes allegation, the sources said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...-patz-suspect-article-1.1066535#ixzz1sy8VVysA
Show me a link to information where LE states the parents are not involved and are not considered suspects. I would like to read that. The new investigator has made it clear they are looking outside the previous scope.
Cleary this is a difficult crime to solve. If you keep looking at it the "same way" you will get the same results.
From the link: "[Detective Bill Butler] says the Patzes are not suspects." (AP article, 07 April 1980.)
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The niece of the new suspect in the Etan Patz disappearance has corroborated claims that he raped her when she was a child, law enforcement sources say.
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The FBI searched in vain for the niece but early this week found her, and she corroborated the ex-wifes allegation, the sources said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...-patz-suspect-article-1.1066535#ixzz1sy8VVysA
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While the [non-fiction] book on this particular crime remains Lisa Cohen's "After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America," all the books [five are suggested] are fiction. Nevertheless, they deal with those who prey upon youth with a pathos that might as well be real.
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the rest here: http://womenincrimeink.blogspot.com/2009/11/jew-in-st-lou.html---
Etan's uncle was a renowned rabbi who headed up a large suburban N.J. congregation. Early in the case, authorities learned Rabbi Patz took dozens of children on an annual summer trip to an Israeli kibbutz. The rumors ran wild - a family rift over religious differences? Maybe Uncle Norman had spirited Etan to Israel to bring him up more devoutly?
It was a ridiculous notion, not the least because Uncle Norman was a reform rabbi. But the Israel angle resurfaced repeatedly, after a mysterious photograph of Etan, taken by Stan Patz himself, surfaced in an Israeli magazine a few years after the boy disappeared. An even more bizarre twist? The picture's caption read "Etan Ben Haim" (Etan, Son of Life). No one could ever figure out how or why that photo appeared.
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Though the article's already been posted on Thread #1, it's certainly worth a read-through if one hasn't already:---
Etan’s sister, Shira, however, “shut down” under the agent’s direct interview style, the official familiar with the investigation said. The F.B.I. considers her potentially an important witness because they believe that if Etan ever offered any hint of inappropriate advances by Mr. Ramos or other adults in the days preceding his disappearance, Shira might know.
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Rarely is anyone ever "entirely exonerated". However, in keeping with Websleuths Terms of Service...a family is ALWAYS considered VICTIMS. Unless they are specifically named suspects or persons of interest, or there are extreme circumstances obviously leading that way, we never sleuth the family.
However, that does not mean that you can't discuss them as they relate to the facts of the case.
If there are any further questions from anyone about this, please PM a moderator directly.
What a sad article about what his little brother went through...''although not quite 3, he toilet trained himself overnight. The toddler began dressing himself in Etan's clothes and would eat only the foods Etan liked to eat. He climbed into the top bunk where Etan had slept.
"on his 7th birthday...he went through an incredible sense of relief that he'd made it through that dangerous year"
"He imagines his brother dead and promises his parents that he will look at every gravestone in the world until he finds Etan's name..."
http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...&dq=etan+patz+when+will+we+smiled+again&hl=en
I'd like to know more about the Israeli magazine that carried the picture of Etan. Does anyone know the name of it? Did it accompany a story?
from Lisa R. Cohen's book "After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive."In 1981 a New Yorker visiting Jerusalem was taken aback to see a photo of Etan in a Romanian-magazine called called Revista Mea that she happened to pick up while having her hair done at Dolly's Hair Salon in Jerusalem. Even more remarkable the photo, found in a regular "family photo album" feature, bore the name Etan Ben-Haim, which in Hebrew means "son of life." The picture purported to be from Kiryat Bialik, a small working-class city near Haifa.
Lead sleuth’s torment ended in suicide
Every day at 7:30 a.m., the lead detective in the search for Etan Patz retraced the 6-year-old’s steps from Prince Street to the West Broadway bus stop — desperate for any clues in the riveting case that ultimately consumed his life
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/lead_sleuth_torment_ended_in_suicide_4cM82hCgh9tIGSbI7aXkLM#ixzz1t0u262zX