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Etan Patz Suspect Arrested 33 Years After Boy Vanished in New York

Police today arrested a former grocery worker in the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, apparently ending a mystery of what happened to the 6-year-old boy that has haunted New York City for three decades. Pedro Hernandez, 51, confessed to police that he lured Patz to his death with the promise of a soda. He took police back to the basement of a Manhattan boedga and showed them where he claimed he strangled Patz. He said he stuffed the boy's body into a plastic garbage bag, carried it to another...Full Story
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