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Posted by Kenneth Walsh at 3:16 PM 0 comments
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Etan Patz went missing on May 25, 1979, which, like today, was a muggy Friday before the Memorial Day weekend. And now 33 years later police have a man in custody for this heinous crime, one that changed childhoods forever. For the sake of Stanley and Julie Patz, I sure hope the man who confessed to murdering their son is telling the truth. I tend to agree with Jim Dwyer that the police should have held off on the publicity, and searched for evidence first. (Cases built on confessions alone tend not to end well.) But if you're anything like me, you're guilty of being completely engrossed in all the coverage going on -- however conflicting and erroneous. This "Crime Scene" graphic is from today's NY Post HERE.
And James Barron's article in the New York Times, Since 1979, a Vigil for the Face on Milk Cartons and the Ages He Would Miss, will move you, marking the events that have passed in the 33 years since the little boy went missing. This photo of Etan's parents in their SoHo loft in 1979, shot as police officials answer phones in the disappearance, reduced me to tears, imaging the fear and anguish they must have been feeling -- and knowing that they still are. A timeline HERE shows all the fits and starts in this case, which drives home why it's so important that this not be another false hope.
Posted by Kenneth Walsh at 11:00 AM 9 comments
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It's being reported that police are questioning a former SoHo bodega worker who is now claiming he kidnapped, stabbed and strangled Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy whose disappearance sparked a new era in the hunt for missing children.
According to The New York Post: Sources identified the man as Pedro Hernandez. He was arrested near Camden, NJ, yesterday and taken to New York City for questioning. The man in custody told investigators that he lured the boy with candy, stabbed him, cut up his remains and put them in plastic bags, a law enforcement source told The Post. The suspect lived just a few blocks away from Patz and worked at a neighborhood bodega when the little boy went missing, the source said.
As much as I would like for there to be some answers for the Patz family -- and the nation -- my first reaction is to be highly skeptical of this confession. The intense media coverage last month is just the kind of cat nip to inspire a loon to insert himself into the story. (Remember the freak who confessed to killing JonBenet Ramsey???) And the fact that authorities so far are saying he's provided no information that wasn't already made public -- and that he says he put the body in a box that "went missing" (?????) -- only fuels my skepticism. (That, and the fact that he confessed in 1979 and police dismissed him as a wacko.)
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told Etan's parents that Pedro Hernandez will be charged in the murder of their son -- completely based on a confession. This has disaster written all over it. The Times disagrees with The Daily Beast's reporting that Hernandez had confessed to the police before. Sounds like a lot of conflicting/erroneous reporting going on. I get it a month before he recants his confession. Stay tuned.
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