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NYPD: Man charged with murder in Etan Patz slay

Originally published: May 24, 2012 7:08 AM
Updated: May 24, 2012 10:58 PM
By Anthony M. DeStefano, Kevin Deutsche, Robin Topping, Ellen Yan, Igor Kossov, Maria Alvarez, Patricia Kitchen, William Murphy, John Valenti and Nicholas Spangler lidesk@newsday.com

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announces

Photo credit: Getty Images | New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announces the arrest of Pedro Hernandez, who police say confessed to the 1979 killing of six-year-old Etan Patz. (May 24, 2012)

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A 51-year-old unemployed New Jersey man was arrested Thursday in the death of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old Manhattan boy whose disappearance 33 years ago Friday on his first solo trip to school gripped the national psyche.

At a packed Manhattan news conference at NYPD headquarters, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Pedro Hernandez, of Maple Shade, N.J., who had no prior criminal record, admitted...

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