Who Was Responsible For The Death Of Etan Patz

Etan Patz was a young kid from a SoHo neighborhood in Lower Manhattan; his parents were Stanley and Julie Patz (Cohen, L. R.,2009). In the morning of May 25, 1979 a Friday, Etan Patz disappeared on his way to take the school bus between his Prince street home and the west Broadway school bus stop (Cohen, L. R.,2009). At the times of his disappearance Etan was only six years old and a first grader at the Independence Plaza annex of Public School 3 (Kihss, P.,1979 & McDonald, W.,1988). According to reports Etan was dressed in blue, his hat, shoes, pants, and shirt were all blue, out of all his clothing the one thing that stood out was his eastern Air Lines Future Flight Captain hat, which according to reports was his favorite (Cohen, L.

On May 25, 2010 Etan Patz case was re-pened by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (cbsnews, 2010). On May 24, 2012 Police commissioner Ray Kelly announced that perpetrator for the death of Etan Patz had been found (Candiotti, S., 2012). The name of the man who killed Etan Patz is Pedro Hernandez, and in 2012 he confessed that he lured Etan to a store with the promise of a soda, and then strangled the boy to death in a basement (Candiotti, S., 2012). Hernandez then said that he disposed of Etan’s body by putting it inside a plastic bag, and then through the bag in the trash (Candiotti, S., 2012). According to Police commissioner Ray Kelly, law enforcement acquired the information that led them to Pedro Hernandez through a tip that they received (Candiotti, S., 2012). On November 14, 2012 Pedro Hernandez was indicated by a grand jury and was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping (Dienst, J., & Prokupecz, S., 2012). Although Hernandez confessed the case is still ongoing do to mistakes made during the interrogation according to Harvey Fishbein who is Pedro Hernandez lawyer (McKinley, J. C., Jr.,