Manhattan District Attorney announces plans to retry Pedro Hernandez for the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz after his conviction was overturned earlier this year over jury instruction issues.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that it intends to retry Pedro Hernandez, the man found guilty of kidnapping and murdering a 6-year-old boy decades ago.
Etan Patz went missing in 1979 after he walked to his bus stop alone for the first time in New York City. He was one of the first missing children to appear on milk cartons.
Hernandez confessed to the crime nearly three decades later, and was sentenced to 25 years to life after being convicted of murder in 2017. His first trial ended in a hung jury in 2015.
