New York, Nov 26, 2025 (AFP) - US seeks retrial of main suspect in 1979 murder of six-year-old

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2025-11-26

US prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to re-try the main suspect in the infamous New York kidnap and murder of a six-year-old boy 46 years ago. In a case that still haunts US parents and forever changed the handling of child abductions, Etan Patz vanished on May 25, 1979 after leaving his parents' home in Manhattan to walk alone for the first time to the school bus stop. Pedro Hernandez, then 18 years old and working in a convenience store near......

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