Deceased/Not Found NY - Etan Patz, 6, New York, 25 May 1979 #3 *P. Hernandez guilty*

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978342212560674877

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I'll be very surprised if he's retried.
I feel terrible for Etan's parents.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Man convicted in Etan Patz's murder must be re-tried by June or released: Judge

Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of abducting and murdering Etan Patz, must be re-tried by June 2026 or he will be released from custody.

abcnews.go.com

October 17, 2025

Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of abducting and murdering Etan Patz, must be re-tried by June 2026 or he will be released from custody, a federal judge in New York ruled on Friday.

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The Manhattan District Attorney's office will be asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and, in the meantime, said it has not decided whether to put Hernandez on trial again.

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McMahon gave the district attorney's office until June 1 to retry Hernandez. "If jury selection does not commence by June 1, 2026, Hernandez must be released," McMahon said.

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[Mysteries1974]

Man convicted in Etan Patz's murder must be re-tried by June or released: Judge

Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of abducting and murdering Etan Patz, must be re-tried by June 2026 or he will be released from custody.

abcnews.go.com

October 17, 2025

Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of abducting and murdering Etan Patz, must be re-tried by June 2026 or he will be released from custody, a federal judge in New York ruled on Friday.

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The Manhattan District Attorney's office will be asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and, in the meantime, said it has not decided whether to put Hernandez on trial again.

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McMahon gave the district attorney's office until June 1 to retry Hernandez. "If jury selection does not commence by June 1, 2026, Hernandez must be released," McMahon said.

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This is terrible. I feel awful for Etan’s parents, they’ve been dealt emotional roller coaster after another for 46 years. That being said, I was never convinced of Pedro Hernandez’s guilt.

IMO, he was a fall guy because the police wanted someone in prison for Etan’s case. If Hernandez hadn’t confessed or been tipped off to police by his brother in law, I’m positive they would’ve found some way to get Jose Ramos behind bars for Etan’s presumed death.

I believe Ramos is still a much better suspect for this than Hernandez ever was. He knew where Etan’s bus stop was and dated the woman hired by the Patz family to walk Etan to and from his stop during the bus strikes. He allegedly molested the woman’s son who was similar in age and description to Etan. In fact, most of Ramos’ other victims physically resembled Etan.

All in all, I don’t think Pedro Hernandez is involved in this and I think LE owes it to Etan’s parents to figure out what really happened to their son as well as find tangible proof of his fate.

Who knows, Etan could still be alive. His parents told the media that he was extremely friendly and trusting, even to strangers. What if someone coaxed him into their car that morning and took him to raise as their own? He was quite small for his age, maybe someone mistook him for being slightly younger than 6?

I know Etan knew his home phone number by heart but I still think there’s a chance if someone took him with the intention of keeping him, maybe they conditioned him into believing his parents gave him away or something. This is all speculation but I still think there’s a chance he could be alive.

I hope LE starts taking another look at this case, I know Ramos left the USA so I’m not sure how easy it will be to investigate him now. I’ll always hope for a resolution in his unsolved kidnapping.

 

[mjm076]

Who knows, Etan could still be alive. His parents told the media that he was extremely friendly and trusting, even to strangers. What if someone coaxed him into their car that morning and took him to raise as their own? He was quite small for his age, maybe someone mistook him for being slightly younger than 6?

I know Etan knew his home phone number by heart but I still think there’s a chance if someone took him with the intention of keeping him, maybe they conditioned him into believing his parents gave him away or something. This is all speculation but I still think there’s a chance he could be alive.

I hope LE starts taking another look at this case, I know Ramos left the USA so I’m not sure how easy it will be to investigate him now. I’ll always hope for a resolution in his unsolved kidnapping.

Oh man! Imagine if Etan IS still alive! That would be insane! But now that I think about it, when was the last time an age-progressed image of Etan Patz was released?

 

[Mysteries1974]

Oh man! Imagine if Etan IS still alive! That would be insane! But now that I think about it, when was the last time an age-progressed image of Etan Patz was released?

They haven’t made one for him in years. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children made one showing how he’d look at age 17 in 1989 so it’s been 36 years since.

I believe Etan’s parents asked for them to stop being made because they resigned to the idea that he died in 1979.

 

[Mysteries1974]

I know I’ve posted this here before but I still think it’s worth looking into. On the morning of Etan’s abduction, a woman supposedly saw him conversing with a middle aged man near his home at the time he would’ve been walking to the bus stop.

The witness was hypnotized and provided a detailed description of the man which authorities used to create a composite sketch of the individual. To my knowledge, this man has not been identified.

He is a very puzzling aspect to this case because the individual in question doesn’t resemble Ramos or Hernandez.

Oct 22, 1979, page 5 - Daily News at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from Daily News dated Oct 22, 1979, page 5.

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Oct 31, 1979, page 26 - Newsday at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from Newsday dated Oct 31, 1979, page 26.

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Oct 22, 1979, page 3 - Daily Record at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from Daily Record dated Oct 22, 1979, page 3.

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[ChatteringBirds]

November 25, 2025:

Prosecutors will retry man in death of Etan Patz, whose 1979 disappearance spotlighted missing kids

A notorious 1979 missing-child case will go to trial for a third time in New York City. Manhattan prosecutors vowed in a court filing Tuesday to retry the man whose murder conviction was recently overturned in the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

apnews.com

"...New York prosecutors vowed Tuesday to retry the man whose murder conviction was recently overturned in the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz..."

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Manhattan DA to retry Pedro Hernandez in the kidnapping and killing of Etan Patz in 1979

A three-judge panel with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in July due to a flawed instruction to a jury note by the judge who presided over the trial.

www.nbcnews.com

The Manhattan District Attorney's office announced Tuesday that it would retry the man they convicted once before for the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

Pedro Hernandez, 64, was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping and murdering Etan — a crime that struck terror into the hearts of parents in New York and across the nation and stymied the police for decades.

Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after he admitted to luring the child into the basement of a bodega in the city’s SoHo neighborhood...

 

[Mysteries1974]

November 25, 2025:

Prosecutors will retry man in death of Etan Patz, whose 1979 disappearance spotlighted missing kids

A notorious 1979 missing-child case will go to trial for a third time in New York City. Manhattan prosecutors vowed in a court filing Tuesday to retry the man whose murder conviction was recently overturned in the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

apnews.com

"...New York prosecutors vowed Tuesday to retry the man whose murder conviction was recently overturned in the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz..."

My suspicion is that this will end in one of three ways:

1.) An acquittal which would free Hernandez. The case would once again be unsolved so investigators will either choose to pursue the case full time or close it and say they are confident Hernandez did it but they can’t prove it

2.) A conviction which would obviously keep Pedro behind bars where he’s been for 13 years now. He’d sit in prison and the case would be legally considered resolved despite looming suspicions that he isn’t Etan‘s abductor. Thats pretty much where the case has been for almost fifteen years

3.) A mistrial like the one that happened in 2015. I could see why it would happen because obviously Hernandez’s involvement is plausible due to him working at the bodega Etan planned to visit that morning on his way to the bus but then again there’s no actual evidence to implicate him in the case other than his confession which could’ve been coerced.

IMO, Hernandez isn’t the one who took Etan and the real kidnapper might still be out there. I could be wrong obviously but the conviction never really sat right with me.

 

[Swarley]

My suspicion is that this will end in one of three ways:

1.) An acquittal which would free Hernandez. The case would once again be unsolved so investigators will either choose to pursue the case full time or close it and say they are confident Hernandez did it but they can’t prove it

2.) A conviction which would obviously keep Pedro behind bars where he’s been for 13 years now. He’d sit in prison and the case would be legally considered resolved despite looming suspicions that he isn’t Etan‘s abductor. Thats pretty much where the case has been for almost fifteen years

3.) A mistrial like the one that happened in 2015. I could see why it would happen because obviously Hernandez’s involvement is plausible due to him working at the bodega Etan planned to visit that morning on his way to the bus but then again there’s no actual evidence to implicate him in the case other than his confession which could’ve been coerced.

IMO, Hernandez isn’t the one who took Etan and the real kidnapper might still be out there. I could be wrong obviously but the conviction never really sat right with me.

The confession to police detectives could have been coerced. However, even if it was a coerced confession, it doesn’t necessarily make it a false confession. Furthermore, there were a plethora of other confessions: Hernandez made several statements in the 1980s to various civilian people in which he implicated himself in the murder of a nameless victim, and he made numerous post-arrest confessions to mental health professionals that he had killed Etan Patz.

When taken together, the prosecution’s evidence against Hernandez was very strong. If the prosecution is able to put on the same evidence in a third trial, I think Hernandez will be found guilty again. Best case scenario for Hernandez is that a couple of jurors harbor a reasonable doubt and hangs the jury. That’s just my (humble) opinions, time may prove me wrong.