A court has overturned Pedro Hernandez's conviction in the Etan Patz case, raising questions about the reliability of confessions from individuals with mental illness.

Prosecutors say they may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to restore a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of ...

"We are reviewing the decision," a Manhattan district attorney’s office spokesperson told NBC News about the order to overturn Pedro Hernandez's conviction.

The 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz as he walked alone to his New York City bus stop for the first time shook the country and still resonates in the present. The disappearance became a ...

The prosecution of Pedro Hernandez for allegedly killing Etan Patz was a difficult one, writes Dechert partner Benjamin Rosenberg—it involved an emotional and highly-public incident, a near ...

A federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases.

What occurs when the rules of a justice system intersect with the greatest hopes and worst fears of a neighborhood? The Etan Patz case a name still resonating in the hearts of parents and true crime ...

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A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Pedro Hernandez, the SoHo bodega clerk convicted of kidnapping and murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, get a new trial or be freed from custody ...

In 1979, 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood and was never ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The man convicted in the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz was awarded a new trial Monday as a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in one of the nation’s ...