Published February 14, 2017
The Latest on the conviction in the Etan Patz case (all times local):
1 p.m.
The father of Etan Patz (AY'-tahn PAYTS') says he is "truly relieved" that a former store clerk has been convicted in the death of his 6-year-old son, who disappeared 38 years ago in New York City.
Stan Patz added Tuesday: "It's about time."
An attorney for defendant Pedro Hernandez says an appeal is planned.
Jurors delivered their verdict Tuesday. Another jury deadlocked in 2015.
This time, jurors deliberated over nine days before finding the 56-year-old guilty of murder during a kidnapping in a case that shaped both parenting and law enforcement in the United States.
Hernandez was a convenience store clerk in Etan's neighborhood when the first-grader disappeared in May 1979. Hernandez confessed, but his lawyers say his admissions were the false imaginings of a mentally ill man.
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12:30 p.m.
A man has been convicted in one of the nation's most haunting missing-child cases, nearly 38 years after 6-year-old Etan Patz (AY'-tahn PAYTS') disappeared in New York City.
Jurors delivered their verdict Tuesday in Pedro Hernandez' retrial. Another jury deliberated for 18 days before deadlocking in 2015.
This time, jurors deliberated over nine days before finding the 56-year-old guilty of murder during a kidnapping in a case that shaped both parenting and law enforcement in the United States.
Hernandez was a convenience store clerk in Etan's neighborhood when the first-grader disappeared in May 1979. Hernandez confessed, but his lawyers say his admissions were the false imaginings of a mentally ill man.
Etan became one of the first missing children ever pictured on milk cartons.
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12:10 p.m.
A jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of a man accused of killing a little boy in 1979.
Pedro Hernandez, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, confessed to choking Etan Patz (AY'-tahn payts). But his attorney Harvey Fishbein has said that his mentally ill client made it up and that the evidence points to another suspect in the case.
The 6-year-old boy vanished on his way to school on May 25, his face was among the first on milk cartons.
The jury sent out a note Tuesday after nine days of deliberations.
An earlier prosecution ended in mistrial after jurors could not agree after 18 days; all but one wanted to convict.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-latest-etan-patzs-father-says-hes-truly-relieved