A U.S. appeals court on Monday ordered that a man convicted for the 1979 murder of a 6-year-old New York City boy should receive a new trial or be released.
The disappearance of Etan Patz gripped the city for years before Pedro Hernandez confessed to luring the boy into a basement and attacking him in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood in 1979.
Hernandez was arrested in 2012 after a decadeslong search for answers in Patz’s disappearance on the first day he was allowed to walk alone to his school bus stop.
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