Pedro Hernandez gets 25 years in prison for killing Etan Patz

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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the sentencing of Pedro Hernandez, 56, to 25 years-to-life in state prison for kidnapping and murdering six-year-old Etan Patz, who disappeared while walking to a school bus stop in 1979. On February 14, 2017, the defendant was convicted by a New York State Supreme Court jury of one count each of Murder in the Second Degree and Kidnapping in the First Degree.

As proven at trial, on the morning of May 25, 1979, Hernandez, who was employed as a clerk at a bodega on the corner of West Broadway and Prince Street in SoHo, lured Etan Patz into the basement of the convenience store near the boy’s bus stop with the promise of a soda. Inside the basement, Hernandez choked the child until he went limp, then placed the boy’s body in a plastic garbage bag that he concealed inside a cardboard box.

The defendant then carried the box containing Etan’s body out of the basement and left it with the trash in the alley of a nearby building on Thompson Street, a little more than one block away.

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