Hispexican murdered Etan Patz

waltky · May 25, 2012

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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Mr_Truth · Jun 2, 2012

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.

waltky · Aug 9, 2012

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! Dont 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 didnt find it so theyll have to use her testimony if theres 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 Etans 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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waltky · Nov 15, 2012

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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Albert Di Salvo · Nov 15, 2012

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

waltky · Jan 8, 2013

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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Mr_Truth · Jan 8, 2013

Working toward closure in Etan Patz case...
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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.

waltky · Oct 25, 2013

Former suspect to be called as witness in Etan Patz murder case...

Patz case defense wants earlier suspect as witness
Oct 25,`13 -- The man charged with killing a 6-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979 is securing an unusual witness in his defense: a convicted Pennsylvania child molester who was long the prime suspect.

A Pennsylvania judge on Friday ordered now-jailed Jose Antonio Ramos to appear at Pedro Hernandez' murder trial next year in the death of Etan Patz, The Citizens' Voice of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., reported. A civil court years ago declared Ramos responsible for the boy's death, though he has denied involvement. Friday's developments raise the prospect of Ramos taking a witness stand for the first time to answer questions about one of the nation's most infamous missing-child cases. "The jury should know that there's someone out there with a lot more evidence against him than my client," Hernandez' lawyer, Harvey Fishbein, said by phone Friday.

The Manhattan district attorney's office, which is prosecuting Hernandez, had no immediate comment on Friday's developments in a court in Luzerne County, Pa. Ramos is currently jailed there on a charge of violating sex-offender-registration requirements. Ramos' attorney, Tom Marsilio, said his client has little to offer for Hernandez' trial, The Citizens' Voice reported. He told the newspaper he had declined a request from Hernandez' attorney to speak to Ramos. Ramos repeatedly said "no comment" to a reporter's questions while being led in and out of court, the newspaper reported.

Convicted child molester Jose Antonio Ramos, left, and Pedro Hernandez, right, who is accused of abducting and killing six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 are shown. A Pennsylvania judge on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 ordered now-jailed Ramos to appear at Pedro Hernandez trial in 2014, The Citizens' Voice of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., reported. Ramos was long the prime suspect in Patz's disappearance.

Etan disappeared while walking to his school bus stop on May 25, 1979. He was one of the first vanished youngsters featured on a milk carton, and his case helped mobilize a nationwide missing-children's movement. Hernandez, of Maple Shade, N.J., worked as a stock clerk at a store in Etan's neighborhood when the boy disappeared. Police said a tipster led them to Hernandez in spring 2012, and he then confessed to luring Etan into the store basement with the promise of a soda, choking him to death and leaving his body in a bag of trash about a block away. The body has never been found.

Fishbein has said Hernandez is mentally ill and made a false confession. Hernandez, 52, has pleaded not guilty. His trial is set for April. For more than a decade before Hernandez' arrest, investigators eyed Ramos, who had been dating Etan's baby sitter. In 2000, authorities even dug up Ramos' former basement in lower Manhattan, but nothing turned up. Ramos was never criminally charged in Etan's death. But after Etan's parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, a 2004 civil court ruling held Ramos responsible for the boy's death. The decision was made largely because Ramos didn't entirely cooperate with questioning.

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hseiken · Nov 8, 2013

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waltky · Feb 16, 2017

Pedro Hernandez found guilty of Etan Patz murder...

Suspect Found Guilty in Etan Patz's Murder
February 15, 2017 - A Manhattan jury has found Pedro Hernandez guilty of murder in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, bringing to an official close a notorious case that transfixed New Yorkers for over three decades.

The verdict Tuesday came on the ninth day of deliberations after a three-month retrial. The first trial of Hernandez, 54, of Maple Shade, N.J., a clerk at a bodega in the SoHo neighborhood where Etan disappeared, ended with a jury deadlocked 11-1 for conviction in 2015. Hernandez was identified as a suspect by a relative in 2012 and later confessed to police. But his defense said the confession was a fantasy stemming from a mental problem, and argued that the real culprit was a convicted child molester who had a link to Etans family. Etan disappeared on May 25, 1979, while on his way to catch a school bus that stopped outside the corner bodega where Hernandez worked. His mother, Julie Patz, in emotional testimony, said it was his first time walking to the bus stop alone and that he had $1 to buy a treat at the bodega.

He never came home, and an intense police dragnet in the neighborhood never turned up a body, or forensic evidence of a crime, or witnesses who recalled seeing him at the bus stop. The case became a cautionary tale for parents, and Etans picture was put on milk cartons as part of a nascent national movement to find missing children. In the 1980s, attention in the case focused on Jose Ramos, a convicted child molester who is now serving time in Pennsylvania. Ramos had a social relationship with a woman who walked Etan home from school during a bus strike. Ramos intrigued authorities by telling them that he had an encounter with a boy who could have been Etan on the day he vanished, and also made incriminating remarks to two informants who were placed in jail with him. But he never confessed and was never prosecuted.

Hernandez, according to testimony at trial, made incriminating statements that varied in their details to a prayer group, an ex-wife and a friend. After a lengthy unrecorded interrogation by the NYPD in 2012, he recorded purported confessions for police and prosecutors. He said that he had lured Etan into the basement of the bodega by offering him a soda, strangled him to death, packed his body into a produce box and lugged it to a dumpster two blocks away. He did not give a motive, saying only that something took over me, but prosecutors believe he tried to sexually assault the 6-year-old. Both trials were hotly contested. Prosecutors portrayed Hernandez as the missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle a man at the right place at the right time who put the body in a dumpster where it would have been trucked to a landfill before Etans parents ever knew he was missing, and who left New York and sought forgiveness at a religious retreat within weeks of the disappearance.

The defense, however, portrayed Ramos as a far more likely suspect a man with a string of molestation charges unlike Hernandez, a father whose record was clean except for the Patz allegations. A former FBI supervisor who investigated Ramos testified that she believed he was guilty. The defense called mental health experts whose conclusions were contested by prosecution experts to testify that Hernandez had low IQ and suffered from schizotypal personality disorder, a mild form of schizophrenia, that could have produced delusions stemming from his own horrific childhood of abuse. In a case with no body and no forensic evidence to even prove Etan was killed, the defense also hammered on inconsistencies in Hernandezs purported confession. He said Etan had no hat, but Etan was wearing a hat when he left home. He said he had thrown a pencil bag Etan was carrying behind a refrigerator, but it was never found in the basement.

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