FBI, NYPD probing Etan Patz case in SoHo
One of the most famous missing child cases is being reopened almost 33 years later, according to officials. The FBI and New York Police Department are searching the basement of a SoHo home for new evidence regarding 6- year-old Etan Patz, who disappeared from a Manhattan street in 1979 while on his way home to school. (April 19, 2012) (April 19, 2012 1:22 PM)
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New York police and FBI agents investigating one of the nation's most baffling missing-persons cases began digging in a SoHo basement Thursday, looking for the remains of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared on his way to school in 1979.
Detectives and federal investigators cordoned off a building at 127 Prince St., at the corner with Wooster Street, after cadaver dogs a few weeks ago...