Jose A. Ramos

NEW YORK -- A man who confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 34 years ago remains one of the nation's most baffling missing-persons cases, will stand trial for the boy's murder, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Maxwell Wiley's...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey man who confessed to the 1979 killing of Etan Patz should stand trial for murder and kidnapping in the 6-year-old boy's disappearance, a judge ruled on Wednesday. An attorney for Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple Shade,...

Jose Ramos is known in New York as the man responsible for the death of Etan Patz, this according to a jury in a 2004 civil suit. In Pennsylvania, he goes by inmate number, AJ-0496. In a letter obtained by PIX 11 News, Ramos starts off the letter by...

"If I would have done something like that, I would have been guilty all my life, so I guess I would say yes," this was Norma Hernandez's reaction when PIX 11 News asked her if she thought her brother lived with guilt. Hernandez spent part of Tuesday...

A retired NYPD investigator with connections to the Etan Patz case told PIX 11 Friday the confessed killer who emerged 'out of the blue' after 33 years may be the real deal. The ex-cop, who didn't want to be identified, said the defendant, 51 year old...

On the same day and date that Etan Patz disappeared in 1979, 51-year-old Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, New Jersey is officially charged in his death. The former neighborhood handyman is charged with murder in the second degree of the six-year-old...

Police have arrested and charged a New Jersey man in the 3-decades old disappearance case of 6-year-old Etan Patz. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly confirmed that Pedro Hernandez, 51, confessed to stabbing Patz to death and disposing of the body parts...