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Apr 23, 2012 12:05 PM CDT

Etan Patz Search Comes Up Empty

They found a single hair, brick with blood stain

(Newser) - The FBI and NYPD called off their search for Etan Patz in a Soho basement today, having found precious little evidence. "The digging aspect is done," one police official said. All investigators found in the basement was a single human hair, some animal bones, and a cinder block...

How the Etan Patz
Case Was Relaunched

Apr 23, 2012 8:25 AM CDT

How the Etan Patz Case Was Relaunched

New agent sought 'peace' for missing child's family

(Newser) - The case of Etan Patz was opened in 1979 and almost closed five years ago, but a fairly low-ranking FBI agent brought it back into the limelight —culminating in the recent search of a New York City basement , reveals the New York Times . Agent Thomas McDonald took on the...

FBI Targets
New Suspect
in Patz Case

Apr 21, 2012 4:06 PM CDT

FBI Targets New Suspect in Patz Case

Othniel Miller reportedly raped his niece before Patz vanished

(Newser) - The FBI has a new suspect in the 33-year-old disappearance of Etan Patz: a wood shop owner who once used the SoHo basement where cops are now digging for Patz's body, the New York Post reports. Othniel Miller, a 75-year-old living in Brooklyn, fell under suspicion after his ex-wife...

NYPD Resumes Search
for Boy Missing 33 Years

Apr 19, 2012 2:06 PM CDT

NYPD Resumes Search for Boy Missing 33 Years

Cops think Etan Patz might be buried in SoHo basement

(Newser) - Etan Patz disappeared way back in 1979, but the NYPD and FBI think they might find him at last. Authorities today swarmed a SoHo basement that they believe contains the boy's remains. The building is just 200 feet from the one Patz lived in, reports NBC 4 New York...

Famed 1979 Missing Child Case Reopened

May 27, 2010 4:36 AM CDT

Famed 1979 Missing Child Case Reopened

Etan Patz disappeared on way to school bus in downtown Manhattan

(Newser) - Manhattan's district attorney is taking a fresh look at the evidence in one of America's most famous missing child cases. Six-year-old Etan Patz vanished on his way to a Manhattan bus stop in 1979. A huge search was mounted, and Patz became the first missing child ever to be shown...

30 Years Later, Case of 1st Boy on Milk Carton
Still a Mystery

May 13, 2009 3:36 PM CDT

30 Years Later, Case of 1st Boy on Milk Carton Still a Mystery

Spawned missing children's movement

(Newser) - Almost 30 years after he walked himself the few blocks to the bus stop for the very first time, the case of Etan Patz is unresolved. The boy, then 6, became the first missing child to grace a milk carton, and the New York case sparked a nationwide missing-children's movement,...