An appellate court decision overturning the conviction of Pedro Hernandez once again puts the shocking disappearance of a little boy in the spotlight.

The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz was one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases. The six-year-old Manhattan resident was among the first children whose disappearance and likeness were publicized on milk cartons across the country.

Cyrus Vance prosecuted Pedro Hernandez twice. An appeals court overturned the conviction, ruling that the trial judge should not have let jurors consider an improper confession.

Pedro Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years after confessing to kidnapping and killing Patz in New York City, in notorious 1979 child disappearance case.

A federal appeals court has ordered a new trial or release for Pedro Hernandez, who was convicted of kidnapping 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 in New York.

A judge ruled Monday that Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz​, needs to face a new trial or be released.

A New York federal appeals court ruled Monday to overturn the guilty verdict for the man convicted in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the Jewish 6-year-old whose kidnapping and presumed murder changed America’s approach to missing-child cases.

It has been 46 years since 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared in SoHo. After a lawsuit and two criminal trials, questions remain about how he died.

FOX 5 NY's Arthur Chi'en gives the latest on the famous Etan Patz case from 1979, in which Pedro Hernandez’s conviction was just overturned by a federal appeals court, reopening the case.