NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police on Thursday arrested a New Jersey man who they said had confessed to the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz in a case that drew national attention to the plight of missing children and had frustrated law enforcement officials for more than three decades.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Pedro Hernandez, 51, confessed to luring the boy to the small food market where he stocked shelves with the promise of a soda, then choked him and disposed the body in a plastic bag he threw in the trash.
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