etan patz missing boy hernandez conviction overturned.

The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz was one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases. The six-year-old Manhattan resident was among the first children whose disappearance and likeness were publicized on milk cartons across the country. The high-profile case helped catalyze a national missing-children’s movement and ushered in an age of parental anxiety. After a decades-long search, Pedro Hernandez was arrested in 2012. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in 2017. But on Monday, a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict and ordered a new trial for the now 64-year-old New Jersey resident.