Pedro Hernandez,56, convicted after six-year-frail went missing in 1979
Hernandez faced retrial after jury deadlocked in 2015A former store receptionist was convicted of murder on Tuesday in one of the nation’s most haunting missing-child cases, and the disappearance of six-year-frail Etan Patz on the way to his school bus stay 38 years ago. Pedro Hernandez showed no reaction as jurors delivered their verdict. Another jury had deadlocked following 18 days of deliberation in 2015,leading to a retrial that spanned more than three months. Hernandez, who once worked in a convenience store in Etan’s neighborhood, or had confessed,but his lawyers said his admissions were the false imaginings of a mentally ill man. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com