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Etan Patz Murder Suspect Pedro Hernandez Arraigned on Murder Charge

It took exactly 33 years but justice can now be served, prosecutors said this evening at the arraignment of a former bodega worker charged with the 1979 murder of Etan Patz. Pedro Hernandez, 51, was formally charged today with second degree murder of the 6-year-old Patz, who went missing in his Manhattan neighborhood while on his way to school on May 25, 1979. Hernandez, who despite a more than three decades-long investigation was never the target of police until this week, was arraigned from...Full Story
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