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Man held in 1979 murder case

2012-05-25 29 Dailymotion

PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />The search for six-year-old Etan Patz last month led New York police to a building close to where the boy vanished in 1979.<br/> <br />They dug up the basement but found no remains.<br/> <br />On Thursday police said they'd arrested 51-year-old Pedro Hernandez and said he'd confessed to Patz's murder.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: RAYMOND KELLY, NEW YORK CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER, SAYING (English):<br/> <br />"Hernandez described to the detectives how he lured young Etan from the school bus stop at West Broadway and Prince Street with the promise of a soda. He then led him into the basement of the bodega, choked him there, and disposed of the body by putting it in a plastic bag and placing it in the trash."<br/> <br />Patz vanished on his first unaccompanied trip to a school bus stop near his home.<br/> <br />His family, still living in the same apartment today, never saw him again.<br/> <br />Police say they're still investigating the motive for his killing.<br/> <br />Paul Chapman, Reuters

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