Deceased/Not Found NY - Etan Patz, 6, New York, 25 May 1979 #2 *P. Hernandez guilty*

[gregjrichards]

"Teenage stock clerk Pedro Hernandez was just a name in a file for decades, one of many people police encountered while searching for a 6-year-old boy named Etan Patz.
Thirty-five years later, Hernandez is going on trial in a case that shaped the nation's approach to missing children.

Opening statements are set for Friday in Hernandez's murder and kidnapping trial. He emerged as a suspect in 2012, based on a tip and a videotaped confession that prosecutors say was foreshadowed by remarks he made to friends and relatives in the 1980s.

His defense will hinge on convincing jurors that the confession is false, along with suggesting that the real killer may be a convicted Pennsylvania child molester who was a prime suspect for years.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...an-Patz-missing-child-case.html#ixzz3QGmZu128

Etan's family are in my prayers at this particularly stressful and difficult time.

 

[PastTense]

A prosecutor said the little boy named Etan Patz was a “tiny man with a big heart” who couldn’t wait to walk to the school bus stop by himself.

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said Etan’s life was snuffed out the very day he achieved that childhood freedom in 1979, calling the case “a crime that changed the face of this city forever.”

Opening statements began Friday in the trial against Pedro Hernandez, the New Jersey man accused in the disappearance and killing of 6-year-old Etan.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/30/35-years-after-etan-patz-vanished-murder-trial-to-open/

 

[bettybaby00]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/30/35-years-after-etan-patz-vanished-murder-trial-to-open/

I heard this on the radio and started crying. I was a young girl when it happened, and living on Long Island meant it remained huge news for years. It left quite an impression on us kids as back in the day we were much freer than kids today...what a tragedy.

 

[Harmony 2]

"You will see and hear his chilling confession," Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon told jurors Friday, the Associated Press reports. "What you will see is someone who very keenly controls the information that he puts out."

http://www.people.com/article/etan-patz-murder-trial-begins

 

[Harmony 2]

Fishbein urged the jury to set aside the confession, which Hernandez has recanted. He said his client has a mental disorder related to schizophrenia, sees visions and hears voices.

http://news.yahoo.com/mother-nyc-boy-vanished-1979-testify-murder-trial-170303885.html

 

[Harmony 2]

Murder Trial Begins 35 Years After 6-Year-Old Vanished in NY

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/35-years-boy-etan-patz-vanished-murder-trial-28598885

video at link

 

[Harmony 2]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/nyregion/etan-patz-murder-trial.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/nyregion/in-etan-patz-murder-case-high-hurdles-for-each-side.html

 

[Harmony 2]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/murder-trial-in-etan-patz-case-begins-1422651632

 

[dotr]

Etan's parents have endured a living he** that is unimaginable and so terribly unfair, for so long. Just hoping that once this trial is over, they will finally have a sliver of relief from this nightmare.
What kind of world is this, that more than one man, could realistically be suspected of abducting and killing, this cute little kid on his way to school in the morning?!

 

[CanManEh]

Sorry i have not been up to date with this case ...I was just wondering did they find his or any remains in the walls or the floor of that cement basement in that building...OR no ...

 

[dotr]

Sorry i have not been up to date with this case ...I was just wondering did they find his or any remains in the walls or the floor of that cement basement in that building...OR no ...

Not exactly.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/23/justice/new-york-patz-probe/

 

[epiphany]

Etan Patz’s Mother Speaks in Court of the Day Her Son Disappeared

<snip> The dollar bill, she remembered precisely, was in Etan's left hand. But as she attempted to recount how she felt when she realized Etan had not made it to school, she paused.

<snip> &#8220;I told him to go straight to the bodega and get his drink, so he wouldn&#8217;t miss his bus,&#8221; she recalled.

Mr. Hernandez eventually gave the authorities two videotaped confessions. In both, he said he had lured Etan into the basement of the bodega with the promise of a soda, and strangled him there.


http://nypost.com/2015/02/02/etan-patzs-mother-breaks-down-in-tears-describing-sons-disappearance/

<snip> &#8220;It was kind of a damp and misty morning. I told him to go straight to the bodega and get his drink quickly so he didn&#8217;t miss the bus.&#8221;

<snip> &#8220;That was the last time I saw him. I watched him walk one block away heading west, approaching Wooster Street, and I turned around and went back upstairs, and it was the last time I ever saw him,&#8221; she added.


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...patz-killer-pedro-hernandez-article-1.2097663

<snip> Prosecutors revealed the first physical evidence linking Pedro Hernandez to the death of Etan Patz &#8212; a picture of the 6-year-old supposedly kept by the killer as a keepsake.

Hernandez&#8217;s ex-wife found the cutout photo years after the boy&#8217;s SoHo disappearance on the morning of May 25, 1979, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon told jurors Friday in her opening statement.

 

[Indy Anna]

<snip> Prosecutors say Hernandez admitted it to unburden himself of the crushing secret he'd carried for decades.

<snip> In the confession, &#8220;You will see a man who is not only capable of an unspeakable crime, but somebody who labored under the knowledge that one day he would be caught,&#8221; Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said in her opening statement Friday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...-stand-accused-killer-trial-article-1.2100524

 

[Indy Anna]

<snip> NEW YORK (AP) — Six-year-old Etan Patz was supposed to be right outside riding his Big Wheel, but his mom, Julie, didn't see him on the street. She raced down the block, frantic, panic rising. Then he rounded the corner, and relief flooded over her. She scolded him for giving her a fright.

It was the next day, May 25, 1979, that Etan would vanish.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/cri...boy-Etan-Patz-testifies-at-NYC-6056628.php#/0

A premonition, perhaps? Just heartbreaking.

 

[Indy Anna]

<snip> Etan's best friend at the time, Chelsea A., testified that she had saved him a seat on the bus, but he didn't get on.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/cri...boy-Etan-Patz-testifies-at-NYC-6056628.php#/0

 

[wfgodot]

Plenty of pics and a video with DM account:

'Etan walked around the corner and that was the last time I saw him': Murdered boy's
tearful mother describes how she watched her 'trusting' six-year-old son go to his doom

 

[Yoda]

This is too sad to follow. My friend is up in NY now. Etan was her cousin.

 

[CanManEh]

so a picture and his confession thats the evidence ..wheres the body...Man I can not stand people that do this **** .maybe iam way off here but for some reason things like this bother me even more then hearing about a murder maybe its just me that thinks like that but its how i feel . where is his body ?

 

[Fifth Avenue]

Etan Patz murder trial takes unexpected twist Tuesday as prosecution's witness is declared hostile @NYtimes reports http://t.co/Z7q8Al6hrG


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[Wondergirl]

This is a very historical case. I'm surprised more people aren't following it here at WS. I expected more updates