The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz helped catalyze a national missing-children’s movement. The 6-year-old was one of the ...

A federal court ordered Pedro Hernandez, convicted of a murder that happened in 1979, face a retrial or be released.

The man convicted of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 was awarded a new trial Monday as a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in ...