ETAN PATZ 6 - Soho, New York (USA) - 25/05/79

**pam supportfromireland** on Thu May 14, 2009 9:49 am

Examiner.com

13 May 2009

First child on milk carton still missing 30 years later

http://www.examiner.com/x-2725-Aurora-Family-Examiner~y2009m5d13-First-child-on-milk-carton-still-missing-after-30-years
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**Tezza** on Fri May 15, 2009 7:04 pm

CNN

Boy on milk carton still missing after 30 years
updated 5:33 p.m. EDT, Thu May 14, 2009

Story Highlights

Boy, 6, begged his parents to let him walk to school bus stop for first time
He never showed up at school in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood
Etan Patz disappeared on May 25, 1979
Know something? Call the FBI/NYPD Etan Patz hotline: 212-384-2200

**Twiglet** on Thu May 21, 2009 10:36 pm

Etan Patz

Missing since 25 May 1979

**Twiglet** on Thu May 21, 2009 10:37 pm

Aged progressed to 17 years old.

**Twiglet** on Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:27 am

Nancy Grace's Cold Cases

5 November 2009

Etan Patz's case galvanized the missing children's movement, raising awareness of child abductions. The 6-year-old vanished one morning in 1979 while walking to his school bus stop in New York's SoHo neighborhood. It was the first time he set off on the trip by himself.

Etan became the iconic boy on the milk carton, one of the first children to be featured in that 1980s campaign. Thirty years later, the case remains an open investigation, with no official suspects.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/05/grace.coldcase.year/index.html

**Tezza** on Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:03 am

The Guardian

NYC basement searched for boy who vanished in 1979

AP foreign, Friday April 20 2012

TOM HAYS

Associated Press= NEW YORK (AP) — Police and the FBI are searching a New York City basement for the remains of a 6-year-old boy whose 1979 disappearance on his way to school helped launch a missing children's movement.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10203916

**Twiglet** on Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:06 am

Daily mail

20 April 2012

'There was a stench of death': Police search apartment of handyman who befriended missing milk carton boy Etan Patz - 33 years after his disappearance shocked America

A picture of Etan Patz was the first to be put on the side of milk cartons

The day he went missing - May 25 - is now National Missing Children's Day

His body has never been found and no one has ever been charged

A law official said the building being searched housed the workspace of a carpenter who was thought to have been friendly with Etan

A cadaver-sniffing dog picked up a scent of human remains at the property after the tip

The stench of death detected by a police dog led police to a New York City basement on Thursday, where they are searching for the remains of a missing boy who disappeared more than three decades ago.

Etan Patz was six years old when he went missing after leaving his home in New York's SoHo neighborhood on his way to school on May 25, 1979. He was the first missing child to have his picture printed on milk cartons.

New York police officers and FBI agents were searching the basement underneath a clothing store for Etan's remains -- blood or pieces of his clothing -- throughout Thursday -- just a block away from where he went missing 33 years ago.
The basement was home to Othniel Miller, a handyman who had befriended the boy. Investigators questioned the Miller again recently, and as a result of those discussions decided to refocus their attention on the building, according to the law enforcement official.

Etan was finally declared legally dead in 2001, though no trace of his body has ever been found and the case remains unsolved.

He was last seen walking two blocks from his lower Manhattan home to a bus stop for the ride to school wearing his favorite Eastern Air Lines Future Flight Captain hat - something his parents said he would even wear to bed.

It was the first time his parents had let their son walk to school alone, after he begged them, saying all his friends were allowed to do it.

In May 2010, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said they were taking a fresh look at the decades-old case of the missing six-year-old.

Police didn't say what led to the building, but sources revealed a police cadaver dog picked up the scent of human remains there.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne says the building being searched is about a block from where the family lived.

He says the excavation is the result of a recently-ordered review of the case by the Manhattan district attorney and that they expect to be at the site for two to three days, examining a space that now sits beneath a clothing store.
He said: 'We're looking for human remains, clothing or other personal effects of Etan Patz. It's a very painstaking process.'
Authorities didn't say what evidence led them to that location but a source said that in May 1979, the building housed the workspace of a carpenter who was thought to have been friendly with the young boy.
Two law enforcement officials confirmed that an FBI dog had picked up the scent of human remains after police received the tip off that led them to the building.

The 13-foot by 62-foot basement space being searched today sits beneath several clothing boutiques.

The building has undergone renovations over the decades, and Browne said investigators began by removing drywall partitions so they could get to brick walls that were exposed back in 1979 when the boy disappeared.

The excavation was part of a review of the case, recently ordered by the Manhattan district attorney, Browne said.

'This was a shocking case at the time and it hasn't been resolved,' he said.

Etan was the subject of one of the most extensive missing-child searches ever.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132164/FBI-search-Manhattan-apartment-Etan-Patz--33-years-went-missing.html

**Tezza** on Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:09 am

digtriad.com

Etan Patz's Body Possibly Found In NYC Basement

8:17 PM, Apr 19, 2012

http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=225796

**Twiglet** on Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:30 pm

Daily Mail

23 April 2012

NO sign of missing Etan Patz as FBI ends search of suspect's basement - but could boy's silent sister hold key to his disappearance?

Building being searched housed the workspace of carpenter Othniel Miller

Miller's ex-wife accused him of raping his niece but he was never charged

Authorities say he became aroused when looking at images of pictures

Cadaver-sniffing dog picked up scent of human remains at property after missing boy's mother led them back to Miller

Chief suspect Jose Ramos worked for him at the time of disappearance

Etan may have told his sister about unwanted advances from anyone

Shira Patz 'shut down' in recent interviews with FBI

The FBI wound down its search for Etan Patz's remains today as it emerged they believe his older sister could have a vital piece of information that will lead them closer to her brother's killer.
Shira Patz was eight when Etan disappeared from the streets of New York on May 25, 1979.
Two men who lived and worked close to the Patz family, on Manhattan's Prince Street, are the chief suspects in the case - Jose Ramos, who is serving time in a Pennsylvania jail for the sexual abuse of two other boys, and Othniel Miller, who police have been zeroing in on after his ex-wife told them he raped his ten-year-old niece.
An FBI source told the New York Times that Shira Patz has stopped answering questions about her brother, but is seen as an important witness because they believe if any strangers offered any inappropriate advances against Etan, he would have told her.
Agent Thomas MacDonald, who took over the case more than five years ago and was met with initial resistance from Etan's mother Julie, interviewed Shira to find a new way into the investigation but she is said to have 'shut down' under his direct interview style.

FBI and police authorities were today winding down their work at the site in Manhattan. Chief police spokesman Paul Browne says the case remains a missing-person investigation, but authorities found no obvious human remains.
Othniel Miller has been questioned several times by police in the last month after his ex-wife told them about the alleged rape of his niece. Julie Patz was also said to have told agents to look again at the handyman, who befriended Etan before he vanished and hired Ramos to do odd jobs for him.

During one interview, agents watched the75-year-old as he grew aroused while he looked through a book of images of children, two law enforcement officials told the Times.

When authorities told him cadaver dogs picked up the scent of human remains at his basement he allegedly blurted out: 'What if the body was moved?'

Paper, strands of hair and other 'possible' bits of forensic evidence have been unearthed during the excavation of the basement but so far 'nothing conclusive' has emerged.
Chief suspect in the case since the 1980s Jose Ramos initially told police he attempted to molest Etan but denied killing him. He dated the six-year-old's babysitter and was said to know every stop on the school bus route - and specifically which stop Etan got off at.

But Agent MacDonald, who re-interviewed all the original witnesses and all the agents who worked on the case, said he was open to ideas that it was not Ramos.

Part of their thinking, the official told the Times, is that with his other victims, Ramos earned their trust before he molested them and was often seen in the company of children.
The FBI have not been able to find any witness that can establish any form of relationship between him and Etan.
'If you look at that pattern of behavior and apply it to Etan, you have to assume there will be a prior relationship, and it’s just not there,' the official told the paper.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133984/Etan-Patz-disappearance-Shira-Patz-told-brother-advances-men-vanished.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

**Twiglet** on Fri May 25, 2012 9:33 am

NWAOnline

24 April 2012

No remains found in NYC basement

The excavation of a Manhattan basement yielded no obvious human remains and little forensic evidence that would help solve the decades-long mystery of what happened to Etan Patz, a 6-year-old who vanished while walking to a bus stop 33 years ago.

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2012/apr/25/no-remains-found-nyc-basement-20120425/?news-national

**Twiglet** on Fri May 25, 2012 9:35 am

The Villager

3 May 2012

Patz suspect was charming to adults, but girl feared him‎

“I was scared of him,” she remembered.

She recalled the man’s big German shepherd, and that the man had a bushy beard and mustache, and that he was “very dirty.”

“He had long fingernails that were black — kids remember that,” she said. He also wore a multicolored Mexican blanket like a poncho.

As a carefree youngster growing up in Soho, she’d play hopscotch and tag in the streets. But whenever she saw him coming, she’d run and hide.

He’d try to kiss her but she was repulsed by his facial hair.

He’d always try to give her some sort of present, usually children’s books he’d found, but she’d decline.

“I didn’t want his dirty books from the garbage anyway,” she said.

As for why the man was so interested in her, she said, “I looked like a boy when I was 3. I had a short haircut.”

According to the woman, the man would get close to young local children through their parents.

“He was very charming with adults,” she said. “He was very personable. They would talk with him for hours.”

And there’s one more thing she’ll never forget about him — his strange dark eyes.

“Something with his eyes — he had these gleaming eyes. It was something shiny — it was like he was always laughing at you.”

Now in her mid-30s and still living in New York, the woman requested that her name not be printed out of concern for her safety. The man, Jose Ramos, may get out of jail in November in Pennsylvania, where he’s been serving time on child-molestation charges.

Ramos, now 68, has long been the number one suspect in the disappearance of Etan Patz, 6, from Soho 33 years ago.

http://www.thevillager.com/?p=4238

**Twiglet** on Fri May 25, 2012 9:53 am

Telegraph

24 May 2012

Etan Patz: suspect in custody in connection with 'milk carton boy disappearance

A suspect is in custody in connection with the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz more than 30 years ago, New York police have said, in what appears to be a major breakthrough in one of America's most famous missing child cases.

Police say that the suspect has implicated himself in the case. Further details are expected to be released later today.

The man is said to be known to investigators, according to NBC New York, and he worked and lived in the boy's neighbourhood when he disappeared in 1979.

Ray Kelly, the NYPD police commissioner, said the man "has made statements to NYPD detectives implicating himself in the disappearance and death of Etan Patz 33 years ago."

The breakthrough comes only a month after the FBI began a new search in connection with the case, one of America's most famous missing child episodes. The new search involved the excavation of a basement near his family's home.

Etan was the first missing child to appear on the side of a milk carton. He vanished after leaving his family's apartment in Manhattan to catch a school bus. It was the first time his parents had let him go off to school alone.

May 25, the day he disappeared, was declared 'National Missing Child Day' by Ronald Reagan. The boy was formally declared dead in 2001.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9287505/Etan-Patz-suspect-in-custody-in-connection-with-milk-carton-boy-disappearance.html

**Twiglet** on Fri May 25, 2012 9:58 am

ABC News

24 May 2012

AP Source: Man Says He Suffocated Boy in 1979‎

A former convenience store worker confessed to luring 6-year-old Etan Patz from his school bus stop in 1979 and choking him to death in a basement, police said Thursday, ending a three-decades long investigation into one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases.

Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple Shade, N.J., was arrested on a murder charge after he told police he promised the boy a soda, took him to his store — just blocks from Etan's lower Manhattan home — and killed him there, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

Hernandez told police he put Etan's body in some trash about a block from the store, Kelly said, where it's possible it was picked up by sanitation crews.

No body has been recovered, and Kelly said it's possible the remains would never be found.

Hernandez was questioned by police for more than three hours after he was picked up in New Jersey Wednesday, and gave police a signed confession, Kelly said. His motive was not yet clear.

It's not clear if he had an attorney; an arraignment was expected sometime Friday. No one answered the door at Hernandez' New Jersey home Thursday night.

"He was remorseful, and I think the detectives thought that it was a feeling of relief on his part" to confess, Kelly said. "We believe that this is the individual responsible for the crime."

The arrest is the first ever in the decades-old case that gave rise to the missing-children's movement and ushered in an era of anxiety about leaving children unsupervised. Etan's photo was one of the first of a missing child to appear on a milk carton. The anniversary of Etan's disappearance, which is Friday, was named National Missing Children's Day by presidential proclamation in 1983.

Detectives are often barraged with hoaxes, false leads and possible sightings around the anniversary of the boy's disappearance. But Kelly said they believed Hernandez's story because of specific details he gave to police.

Hernandez, then 19, had worked as a stock clerk at the store for about a month and wasn't questioned at the outset, Kelly said. But he later told relatives, as far back as 1981, that he had "done something bad" and killed an unnamed child in New York City, he said.

After a search of a basement near Patz' lower Manhattan home last month hurtled the case back into the news, a tipster pointed police to Hernandez. Kelly said the person wasn't a relative, but knew that Hernandez had said he had done a bad thing, he said.

Hernandez was known to police as being a worker at the convenience store — a popular fixture in the neighborhood — but was never questioned, though other people in the shop were.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nypd-person-implicated-etan-patz-death-16419283

**Twiglet** on Fri May 25, 2012 10:06 am

Examiner

24 May 2012

Pedro Hernandez charged with the murder of Etan Patz‎

New York City Police Department detectives have arrested and charged 48-year-old Pedro Hernandez, of Maple Shade, N.J. with the murder of Etan Patz, who disappeared over 30 years ago on a short walk from his parents’ apartment in SoHo to catch his morning bus to school.

According to USA Today, Hernandez told police that he choked Etan to death and left the boy’s body in a box.

At a news conference held this evening, NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said:

Hernandez is being charged with second-degree murder in the "online booking process." The Manhattan district attorney will ultimately decide the exact charges.

Police questioned Hernandez after receiving a tip from his family members.

He had told family members and friends that he "had done a bad thing and killed a child in New York City," but was not specific. His first statement may have been in 1981.

Kelly said Hernandez told him he dumped the boy's body in the trash someplace else in the SoHo neighborhood.

Hernandez gave no reason for choking the boy, Kelly said. No sexual assault is believed to have occurred.

Hernandez has provided police with a written, signed confession.

On the day Etan disappeared, Hernandez, then 18-years old, was employed in a store just blocks from Patz's home.

CBS News reported:

… Hernandez admitted to luring the boy into the store with candy, strangling him, and placing the body in a box. He said he put the box out with the trash and when he came back later, it was gone.

http://www.examiner.com/article/pedro-hernandez-charged-with-the-murder-of-etan-patz

**Twiglet** on Fri May 25, 2012 10:08 am

NBC New York

24 May 2012

Patz Family Surprised, Overwhelmed by Arrest‎

The NYPD lieutenant who informed Etan Patz's family that an arrest was made in the 33-year unsolved case of their missing son said the boy's father was surprised and overwhelmed, but handled the information "very well."

"I don't know if you would call this good news, I think it would just be considered another piece of the puzzle," Lt. Chris Zimmerman said at the Thursday press conference where the NYPD announced the arrest of Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple Shade, N.J., in the case that had gone unsolved since 1979.

Police say Hernandez confessed to luring 6-year-old Patz from the bus stop into a bodega where he worked with the promise of a soda before choking him to death in the basement. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly did not say whether Hernandez had a lawyer.

Kelly said Hernandez told the NYPD that he put Patz's body in a plastic bag and disposed of it in the trash.

Hernandez was questioned after the Missing Persons Squad received a tip from someone who remembered Hernandez speaking of having "done a bad thing" and said he killed a child in New York.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/etan-patz-case-arrest-family-reaction-pedro-hernandez-153856195.html

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