Etan Patz
People walk past a street shrine to six-year-old Etan Patz, who went missing in 1979, set in front of the building where suspect Pedro Hernandez confessed to having strangled the boy in New York on May 29, 2012. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GettyImages)
July 23, 2025, 12:42 pm
Court overturns conviction in case of Etan Patz, Jewish 6-year-old whose 1979 disappearance riveted America
Etan was one of the first missing children to be pictured on milk cartons.
By Grace Gilson
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