30 year old missing child case may be solved

Ringel05 · Apr 19, 2012

Just saw on the national news that remains were found.

The Associated Press: NYC basement searched for boy who vanished in 1979

Trajan · Apr 19, 2012

yes, my aunt wrote me about this poor child way back when I was in the service....wow. talk about a cold case, good for the cops, I hope they found Etan.

Claudette · Apr 20, 2012

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yes, my aunt wrote me about this poor child way back when I was in the service....wow. talk about a cold case, good for the cops, I hope they found Etan.
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I remember Etan Patz as well.

Hope they find that little boy and give his family some closure.

Liability · Apr 20, 2012

The NYC Police Commissioner was interviewed on the NY local Fox station by the two morning anchors, one of whom is the Commissioner's son.

It was awkward material. Cringe worthy.

As Howard Stern used to say, "It gave me douche chills."

On the other hand, there is now, at long last, some reason to hope that this bitterly cold case may finally get some closure.

If so, I hope the poor kid can rest in peace and that his family finds some solace.

strollingbones · Apr 20, 2012

after all this time....there is no statue of limitations on murder charges....thankfully.....i wonder if they can now prove which man committed the murder or if they both did?

Liability · Apr 20, 2012

strollingbones said: ↑

after all this time....there is no statue of limitations on murder charges....thankfully.....i wonder if they can now prove which man committed the murder or if they both did?
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Or neither?

But it looks like maybe one guy did help cover up the crime -- among other things.

Rocko · Apr 20, 2012

Read about it in new York Post this morning.
33 years later, police digging for body in Etan Patz murder case - NYPOST.com

Edit: my link has a pic of the suspect

blastoff · Apr 20, 2012

A report I heard this morning said the kid disappeared the first day he was allowed to walk alone the short distance to his school bus stop. If that's true just think how haunting that would be for his parents. Those poor people will never get over it.

Liability · Apr 20, 2012

Scent pads and cadaver dog.

Seriously, that is some wonderful investigation work.

And that dog is amazing.

waltky · Apr 22, 2012

Possible blood stain found in basement search...

After suspension, search for Etan Patz to resume Monday
Sun April 22, 2012 - An FBI spokesman says the search was suspended for "operational reasons"; Official: Possible blood stain found in basement search; A New York carpenter said he had no involvement in the boy's disappearance; The 6-year-old boy disappeared in 1979 on his way to a bus stop in New York

The search for Etan Patz, a 6-year-old New York boy who disappeared more than three decades ago, is expected to resume on Monday after being suspended for "operational reasons," an FBI spokesman said. "I don't want to get into what those reasons were," the spokesman, Peter Donald, said Sunday. "We'll be back in the morning." Around 2 p.m. Sunday, investigators searching a basement in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood abruptly folded up a tent they had erected to shield them from a nasty rainstorm. Moments later, two large New York Police Department vans rolled in, obstructing most of the view of the scene. Through a small break between the vehicles, photographers were able to catch a glimpse of something being loaded into the side of an unmarked blue van.

Sunday's developments came a day after investigators discovered a possible blood stain on a concrete wall while tearing apart the basement in their search for clues in the case, a law enforcement source told CNN. FBI agents, assisted by the NYPD, discovered the stain by spraying the chemical luminol, said the law enforcement source who has been briefed on the investigation. The chemical can indicate the presence of blood, but is not always conclusive, according to the source. At this time, the stain is described only as an area of interest. Investigators used chainsaws to dig out the portion of the wall with the stain, which will be sent to the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia for analysis to determine whether the substance is blood and, if so, whose it is, the law enforcement source said. The basement is about a half-block from where the boy's family still lives. Etan vanished May 25, 1979, as he walked to a bus stop by himself for the first time.

A carpenter whose former Manhattan basement is the scene of the search said through his lawyer Friday that he had no involvement in the disappearance. Othniel Miller, 75, who has not been charged with a crime, has long cooperated with authorities and plans to continue to do so, his lawyer said. "Mr. Miller has been cooperating with this investigation for over 30 years," attorney Michael Farkas said. "He has continued to cooperate on multiple occasions. And I am going to assist him in cooperating to the fullest extent possible." Miller's daughter, Stephanie Miller, told CNN affiliate WCBS that her father had cooperated with federal agents, saying he "doesn't have anything to do with it." Investigators recently relaunched their probe of the cold case, often described as a milestone effort that helped draw the plight of missing children into the national consciousness.

Authorities said both new and old information led them to Miller, a part-time handyman, who met Etan the day before he disappeared and gave him a dollar. Miller faces no charges in connection with the disappearance. It was interest in the carpenter that prompted authorities to bring a cadaver dog about 10 days ago to a SoHo basement, where Etan apparently had encountered the carpenter, then 42, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. The dog picked up a human scent in the basement, where the man had a workshop. When agents interviewed the man about his connection to the basement, the source said the carpenter blurted out, "What if the body was moved?" Farkas, the attorney, said he will speak to authorities about that alleged remark. "I don't know that he asked that," Farkas told reporters.

More After suspension, search for Etan Patz to resume Monday - CNN.com
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After NYC boy vanished, era of anxiety was born
22 Apr.`12 A generation of sheltered American children grew up in the shadow of anxiety that fell over this country one day in 1979, when a little boy with a charming grin vanished from a Manhattan street corner.

They never knew his name or saw that angelic-looking face. But their parents would never forget it. For some, their caution was simply a result of what they read in news reports. Others, including Jim Stratton, had an immediate and very personal reason to be afraid. "It sent a chill through everybody," said Stratton, 73, whose son was in the same neighborhood play group as Etan Patz, the 6-year-old who never boarded his school bus on May 25, 1979. "You could not leave your child for a minute. Anywhere. It was like a dark cloud had come over the neighborhood."

Before Patz disappeared, the notion that a child could be abducted right off the street, in broad daylight, was not familiar. Children roamed their hometowns freely, unencumbered by fear. They could walk to school and the bus stop and just about anywhere they pleased all by themselves. That all changed after Patz set off for school in his favorite pilot's cap and corduroy jacket and did not return. A new age of paranoia had grabbed hold of the national psyche. And so many years later, that paralyzing sense of fear has yet to fully release its grip. "In many ways, it was the end of an era of innocence," said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children. "And parents suddenly became much more protective and much more hovering over their children."

Patz was one of the first missing children whose face would appear on a milk carton. In the coming years more faces would follow, mutely appealing for help from a public that began, for the first time, to mobilize on a grand scale in its efforts to find them. Even now, after more than 30 years, we still haven't given up hope for a resolution, for answers to every parent's worst nightmare. Last week, authorities began ripping up an old basement near Patz's SoHo loft with the aim of finding his remains, spurred on by a cadaver-sniffing dog that picked up a scent there. "He was here the whole time for all of us," said Cass Collins, Stratton's wife, who has been haunted by his disappearance ever since. "He was always in our thoughts."

The ones who never made it home are painfully seared in the nation's collective memory. There was 6-year-old Adam Walsh, kidnapped and killed in 1981 when he wandered away from his mother at a department store in Hollywood, Fla. There was 12-year-old paperboy Johnny Gosch, never again seen after vanishing on his newspaper route in 1982 in West Des Moines, Iowa. There was Jacob Wetterling, abducted and killed by a masked gunman in 1989 while riding his bicycle home from a convenience store in St. Joseph, Minn. "There were some kids who biked around with a switch blade in their basket after it happened," said Alison Feigh, 34, who grew up with Wetterling and sat next to him in sixth-grade math class. "There was a change of our innocence at that time. In sixth grade, I didn't even have the word abduction that wasn't even part of my vocabulary."

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