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The suspect in the infamous 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy from his New York City neighborhood has been formally charged with murder and kidnapping, according to an indictment made public Wednesday.

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A court date for a man charged with murdering a New York City boy who vanished in 1979 is getting postponed for three months as authorities and his lawyer continue to investigate.

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Police have spent hours searching the home of a man charged in a notorious New York 1979 missing-child case, but it's not yet clear whether investigators found anything relevant.

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New York City police detectives are searching the home of the man charged with murdering a 6-year-old boy who went missing in 1979.

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 The wife of the man who's confessed to killing a New York City boy in 1979 says he has been mentally ill for years.

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The sister of a man who confessed last week to the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City says she went to police in Camden, N.J., years ago to report a rumor he had confessed at a prayer group.

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The alleged killer of Etan Patz apparently confessed many times over the years. Pedro Hernandez's own sister says she doesn't remember the year but that she actually called the Camden police on her own brother after he spoke of murdering a child

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A lawyer for a New Jersey man accused of strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City in 1979 says his client is mentally ill and has a history of hallucinations.

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Thirty-three years to the day after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished without a trace while walking to catch a school bus, a man accused of strangling him and dumping his body with the trash was arraigned on a murder charge on Friday in a locked hospital ward where he was being held as a suicide risk.

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