NEW YORK -- A defendant's murder conviction in a retrial over the disappearance and death of 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 should be thrown out because the new jury knew members of the first jury were ...

For the mother of Etan Patz, who has been missing for 33 years, the investigation into her son's disappearance can't end soon enough. Etan Patz was 6 when he went missing on May 25, 1979, while ...

The 6-year-old who became the poster boy for missing children nationwide following his disappearance in 1979 was a “very tiny big man with a very big heart” – while his accused murderer is a ...

The missing child case of six-year-old Etan Patz ushered in the “stranger danger” era and a reckoning across the US as to how disappearances are handled. Even though a conviction was secured in 2017, ...

NEW YORK (AP) – After 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared in 1979, his father got a wrongful-death judgment against a prime suspect and sent the man a message each year: "What did you do to my little boy ...

NEW YORK - An informant has emerged as a down-to-the-wire witness against the suspect in the infamous missing-child case of Etan Patz, prosecutors revealed Monday. It's not yet clear who the person is ...

In today's social-media world, it's hard to imagine: But in 1979, there was no coordinated effort of state or national law enforcement when a child went missing. Etan Patz, who disappeared 33 years ...

The accused killer of Etan Patz likely lured the 6-year-old boy into a bodega basement to sexually abuse him, prosecutors said Tuesday during closing arguments. “Maybe the defendant tried to sexually ...

Reporting from New York — The mother of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who vanished on his way to school nearly 36 years ago, retook the witness stand Tuesday in the trial of her son’s accused killer as ...