FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012, file photo, Pedro Hernandez appears in Manhattan criminal court in New York. Jurors are scheduled to hear closing arguments Monday, April 13, 2015, in the case against the 54-year-old New Jersey man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz on May 25, 1979 as the boy headed to school. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool, File) (The Associated Press)
NEW YORK – Jurors are scheduled to hear closing arguments Monday in the case against a man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz (AY'-tahn payts) in 1979.
Pedro Hernandez confessed to the crime in 2012. He says on video that he choked the boy in the basement of a convenience store. He says he put the boy's body in a bag, the bag in a box and walked it down the street. Etan's body was never found.
His defense attorney Harvey Fishbein has argued his client's confession is made up. He says the real killer is another longtime suspect, convicted pedophile Jose Ramos, who was never charged in the case. Federal prosecutors investigated Ramos for years but the Manhattan district attorney's office never brought him to trial.
Prosecutors say Hernandez's confession is sound.
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