Thread: Hispexican murdered Etan Patz

Granny says, "Hispexican did it...

Accused Etan Patz killer taken to hospital on suicide watch
25 May`12 - A former bodega stock clerk has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City in 1979.

A former bodega stock clerk arrested for allegedly luring 6-year-old Etan Patz off a SoHo street and strangling him in a basement has been placed on suicide watch at a hospital as a precaution, NBC 4 New York has learned. Pedro Hernandez, 51, was taken to Bellevue Friday, a source familiar with the case said. He had been set to be arraigned after police announced his arrest in the 1979 missing child case that has mystified New York City for decades. Pedro Hernandez, 51, was taken to Bellevue Friday, a source familiar with the case said. He had been set to be arraigned after police announced his arrest in the 1979 missing child case that has mystified New York City for decades. A hospital bedside arraignment was expected Friday afternoon.

Hernandez is in isolation and receiving a medical evaluation at the hospital. Another source told NBC 4 New York that this evaluation is precautionary and that such extra steps in a case like this are often routine. Relatives have said Hernandez has a history of some mental issues. His court-appointed lawyer, Harvey Fishbein, declined to comment Friday, saying he hadn't met with his client yet. Patz vanished on his way to a school bus stop 33 years ago Friday. The case drew international attention and changed the way parents felt about letting their young children go off alone. Police said Hernandez had admitted to luring Patz into a bodega where he worked, near the boy's house, and choking him to death in the basement.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said police focused on Hernandez, who now lives in Maple Shade, N.J., after the Missing Persons Squad received a tip from someone who remembered Hernandez speaking of having killed a child. "In the years following Etan's disappearance, Hernandez had told a family member, and others, that he had 'done a bad thing' and killed a child in New York," Kelly said. Based on that information, police went to question Hernandez. Kelly said Hernandez, who worked at the bodega for about a month, confessed to police after he was picked up Wednesday night. Some of the interviews were conducted at the scene of the crime, Kelly said.

Kelly said the suspect had not given a reason for attacking Patz and said there was "no reason at this time" to suspect the boy was sexually abused. He said it was "unlikely" Patz's remains would ever be found and that Hernandez told them he put the boy's body in the trash. Hernandez's lawyer on Friday asked reporters to be respectful of some of Hernandez's relatives assembled at the courthouse, including his wife, daughter and another man, who huddled together on a wooden bench, turning away interview requests for more than an hour. "It's a tough day. The family is upset. Please give them some space,'' Fishbein said.

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Etan Patz death: Pedro Hernandez due in court
25 May 2012 - Etan Patz vanished while walking to a school bus stop on his own for the first time

The man who has confessed to killing six-year-old Etan Patz, who went missing in New York in 1979, is expected in court on Friday. Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, New Jersey, was arrested on Thursday after he told police he choked the boy to death. Mr Hernandez, 51, worked in a convenience shop near the Patz family home in Manhattan, New York. Etan vanished while walking to a school bus stop on his own for the first time. His was the first face to appear on milk cartons asking for information about missing children. It is 33 years to the day since Etan went missing. Prosecutors are expected to file second-degree murder charges against Mr Hernandez, CNN reports. He was taken to a New York hospital for a psychological evaluation on Friday.

'Feeling of relief'

"We believe that this is the individual responsible for the crime," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters on Thursday. He added that Mr Hernandez was "remorseful, and I think the detectives thought that it was a feeling of relief on his part". According to Commissioner Kelly, Mr Hernandez allegedly had lured the boy "with the promise of a soda". After leading the boy into the basement he "choked him there and disposed of the body by placing him in a plastic bag and placing it in the trash". No body or bag was ever recovered. Commissioner Kelly told reporters that police took Mr Hernandez back to the scene of the crime, which is now a shop selling spectacles. When the incident took place, Mr Hernandez had been stacking shelves at the small grocery shop for about a month. While other employees of the shop were interviewed around the time of Etan's disappearance, Mr Hernandez was not. "I can't tell you why," Mr Kelly said.

Mr Hernandez worked in construction until he suffered a back injury in 1993. He had no previous criminal record, the police commissioner said. But the 51-year-old told relatives and others, as far back as 1981, that he had "done something bad". Mr Kelly said police had already informed Etan's family of the development in the case. "We can only hope that these developments bring some measure of peace to the family," he said. Etan's parents, Stanley and Julie Patz, became outspoken advocates for missing children in the years after their son's disappearance. The couple have not moved since his disappearance and for years refused to change their phone number, hoping that Etan was alive.

Lt Christopher Zimmerman told reporters that "Mr Patz was taken aback, a little surprised, and I would say overwhelmed, to a degree". "I think after everything Mr Patz has gone through, he handled it very well." Investigators last month searched a handyman's former workshop near the Patz family home. In an apparent breakthrough for the decades-old investigation, the Manhattan basement flat was excavated over four days, but no evidence was found. The handyman, Othniel Miller, was repeatedly questioned by detectives, but denied having anything to do with Etan's disappearance.

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He supposedly fessed up in front of a church group in 1983 and the prosecutor's charges are based on that. Well, as a New Yorker, I can tell you that story is bunk: the police offered a huge reward for anyone giving info that would have led to a capture and nobody came forward back then. Anyone who would have heard such an open ''confession'' would have come forward with that info immediately. Therefore, this story is a hoax.

Patz killer kept photo of Etan for years...

Patz's killer kept photo of boy for years, ex-wife says
August 8, 2012 - The man who confessed to killing Etan Patz kept a photo of the boy among his personal possessions for years after the murder, his ex-wife told investigators.

Pedro Hernandez' ex-wife Daisy Rivera said she found the picture, which appeared to be cut from one of the missing persons posters that blanketed the city in 1979, in a “box of his personal papers” that he kept in their New Jersey home, a law enforcement source told The Post. “She brought up that once she was going through a box of his with personal papers and inside that box was the picture of Patz,” the source said. “She said it looked like it came from a missing poster that was put up in the neighborhood.

When confronted with the photo, an angry Hernandez freaked out, Rivera told cops. “She asked ‘What is this?’ He said ‘What are you doing? Put that away! Don’t go through my stuff!” the source said. Cops got a search warrant for the Maple Shade, New Jersey house where Hernandez was living with his second wife and daughter - but came up empty. “One of the things they were looking for when they got a search warrant for the house was this picture or this box but they didn’t find it so they’ll have to use her testimony” if there’s a trial, the source said. Hernandez confessed to murdering the 6-year-old Patz 33 years after the boy disappeared while walking to a school bus stop.

He was charged with second-degree murder after telling cops he lured the innocent child “with the promise of a soda, and led him to the basement of the bodega, and strangled him there,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly at the time. Hernandez placed Etan’s body in a bag and left it in a freezer before taking it to another location in the neighborhood and dumping it with the trash. He gave cops no explanation for the killing other than that he had “an urge” to snatch and kill the boy.

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Working toward closure in Etan Patz case...

NY prosecutors press ahead on Etan Patz case
15 Nov.`12 — The alleged killing is more than three decades old, the body's never been found and the motive is murky.

Finally, the only clear piece of evidence — a recent confession — came from a man who, according to his lawyer, is delusional. Those are some of the obstacles facing prosecutors as they move forward with murder charges in one of the most notorious — and notoriously vexing — cases in New York City history: the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

Pedro Hernandez, who police say volunteered a confession in May, was to appear in court on Thursday following his long-delayed indictment on murder and kidnapping charges. In announcing the charges on Wednesday, prosecutors said that an exhaustive post-arrest investigation found enough evidence to seek an indictment and proceed to trial.

"We believe the evidence that Mr. Hernandez killed Etan Patz to be credible and persuasive, and that his statements are not the product of any mental illness," said Erin M. Duggan, spokeswoman for District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.

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Importing latin poverty into america didn't work out very well for this kid's family.

Now that the cartels are here, shift is to anti-crime immigration enforcement...

Immigration Enforcement Top Crime Priority for US
January 08, 2013 - A new report casts immigration enforcement as the U.S. government's top anti-crime priority, marked by a two-decade shift in funding that has put more staff, equipment and screening capabilities to work protecting the country's borders.

The report by the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, based in Washington, comes amid recent reforms by the White House easing policies for some illegal immigrants and criticism by Republican lawmakers who want a greater focus on enforcement efforts. The report notes that funding last year for immigration enforcement agencies totaled close to $18 billion, more than $3 billion higher than the combined budgets of the country's other principal law enforcement agencies. That $18 billion figure includes the budget of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which has some functions not related to immigration, such as inspecting cargo at U.S. ports.

But in 1986, spending for the other agencies was several times higher than the chief immigration enforcement body. That same year, lawmakers enacted an immigration reform act that included amnesty for about 3 million illegal immigrants. Since then, the report says, the United States has spent $187 billion on immigration enforcement, creating historic levels of border patrol staffing and infrastructure.

Apprehensions at the nation's borders have dropped dramatically, from more than 1.6 million in 2000 to about 340,000 in 2011. Meanwhile, the number of non-citizens deported from the United States has risen sharply, from 30,000 in 1990 to nearly 392,000 in 2011. Doris Meissner, the head of MPI's U.S. Immigration Policy program, says that while the government has focused on building enforcement capabilities and improving their performance, enforcement alone is not sufficient to address the challenges that immigration poses to the country's future. Meissner served as commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in the 1990s.

The report, released Monday, says fewer than half of those deported from the United States are removed following a hearing, with the Department of Homeland Security using its administrative powers to carry out a majority of the removals. It also notes the role of economic factors in the shifting pattern of immigration, with a weaker U.S. economy and more opportunities at home slowing the number of people seeking to get into the country.

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Working toward closure in Etan Patz case...

That's just it - police want to close the case and make themselves look good. So they are accepting the "confession" of someone said to be insane by those who know him. Further, one who supposedly confessed to others over 25 years ago when there had been a multi thousand dollar reward and when nobody came forward to claim it. While I want the Patz family to be at ease for their suffering, I as a former New Yorker who was greatly shocked by the news all those years ago, am still not buying the story today. It is just too convenient.

Blessings upon the long suffering Patz family. But let's have justice. Putting a sick minded man who belongs in an asylum into prison does not serve the interests of justice.