D.A. Who Led Etan Patz Case Says Conviction Reversal Came
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Etan Patz disappeared while walking to his Manhattan school bus stop alone for the first time on May 25, 1979. Pedro Hernandez was arrested in 2012. He was convicted of murder and kidnapping in 2017 and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
"Time is not the prosecution's friend," said Michael J. Brown, a Long Island defense attorney who represents alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann.
Man convicted of killing Etan Patz, one of the first boys featured on missing milk carton, gets sentence tossed - Disappearance of Etan Patz became national news in the 1970s with Patz becoming one of