ActivePriorityCriminal · Homicide prosecution· New York County, NY
The Disappearance of Etan Patz (1979)
Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared walking to a school bus stop in SoHo in 1979. Pedro Hernandez was convicted in 2017; a federal appeals court vacated that conviction in 2025 and the case is back before the courts.
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1979
The child vanishes on Prince Street; his photo becomes a national missing-child symbol.
2012
Pedro Hernandez confesses in a recorded interview and is charged.
2017
A second trial ends in conviction and a 25-years-to-life sentence.
2025
The Second Circuit vacates the conviction over a jury instruction on the confession.
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