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.

A New York federal appeals court ruled Monday to overturn the guilty verdict for the man convicted in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the Jewish 6-year-old whose kidnapping and presumed murder ...

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

Etan Patz walked out of his New York City home headed for a school bus stop just two blocks away. The 6-year-old never made it to school that day in 1979 – and he's never been found.

(AP) NEW YORK - A judge has declined to throw out a murder case against a man charged decades after an infamous 1979 child disappearance in New York City. The ruling came Wednesday in the case ...

I’ve been reporting on this story for 35 years, first as a network news producer and then to write the only book on the case, “ After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive.” ...

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

Jose Ramos, the convicted child molester long suspected in the notorious 1979 disappearance of a boy in New York City, will spend six to 20 years in a Pennsylvania prison for failing to register ...

In 2010, CBS News New York reported that Patrick's biological mother, Jennifer Rodriguez, had admitted to being a drug addict and shoplifting, and she said she called child welfare for help.

NEW YORK — A former convenience store worker confessed to luring 6-year-old Etan Patz from his school bus stop in 1979 and choking him to death in a basement, police said Thursday, ending a ...

"Etan was strangled dead and disposed of before his mom knew he was missing," Illuzzi-Orbon told the jury. "It's a case about a child lost to the world and that fact should never be lost to you ...