(21 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART MUST CREDIT ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: New York - 28 May 2012
1. STILL: Newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz is part of a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. (PHOTO ID:17045662605148)
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ARCHIVE: New York - 14 February 2017
2. STILL of Etan Patz hangs on an angel figurine, part of a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. (PHOTO ID: 17045643102915)
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ARCHIVE: New York - 18 May 1985
3. STILL of Stanley Patz, along with his son Ari, pose with a photo of his son Etan, in New York. (PHOTO ID: AP17045690167603)
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ARCHIVE: New York - 15 November 2012
4. STILL: Pedro Hernandez as he appears in Manhattan criminal court with his attorney Harvey Fishbein (PHOTO ID: 18096470377806)
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ARCHIVE: New York - 8 May 2015
5. Etan Patz's father, Stan Patz, entering courtroom
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stan Patz, Etan Patz's father:
"Let me make it very clear that we are frustrated and very disappointed the jury has been unable to come to a decision. Our long ordeal is not over."
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ARCHIVE: New York - 8 May 2015
7. STILL: Court sketch of Pedro Hernandez seen on the right
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ARCHIVE: New York - 8 May 2015
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Harvey Fishbein, lawyer for Pedro Hernandez:
"We are disappointed that there couldn't be a resolution. But if the District Attorney's office chooses to retry this case we will be ready."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: New York - 15 November 2012
9. STILL of Pedro Hernandez in Manhattan criminal court (PHOTO ID: 17045632581941)
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ARCHIVE: New York - 14 February 2017
10. Prosecution team standing with Stanley Patz, father of Etan Patz
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Stanley Patz, father of Etan:
"The Patz family has waited a long time but we have finally found some measure of justice for our wonderful little boy, Etan."
13. Patz with prosecutors
14. Attorney Harvey Fishbein amid reporters
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Harvey Fishbein, attorney for defendant Pedro Hernandez:
"There will be an appeal because over the years we have established serious legal errors in this case. I hate to say it, but we are confident we will be back here some day."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
The man convicted in the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz was awarded a new trial Monday as a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases.
Pedro Hernandez has been serving 25 years to life in prison since his 2017 conviction. He had been arrested in 2012 after a decades-long, haunting search for answers in Etan’s disappearance, which happened on the first day he was allowed to walk alone to his school bus stop in New York City.
The appeals court said the trial judge gave a “clearly wrong” and “manifestly prejudicial” response to a jury note during He... [truncated]
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