NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors said Friday they might appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to restore a murder conviction in ...

Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, is asking for more time to decide whether to seek a review of the overturned ...

Etan Patz’s murder conviction overturned after 45 years, raising new questions about confessions and mental health.

The judges’ decision echoed ProPublica’s reporting from 2013 that raised questions about the veracity and legality of suspect ...

In 1979, a 6-year-old boy disappeared on his way to his Manhattan school bus stop. Etan Patz's disappearance changed the way ...

Child’s disappearance spurs a huge shift, not just in parents but in the basic idea that we can trust most people around our ...

A federal appeals court has overturned the guilty verdict in one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases.

The man who confessed to the notorious 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz may soon walk free from prison after a stunning decision by a higher court. On Monday, July 21, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

Pedro Hernandez, 64, was convicted of Etan’s kidnapping and murder in 2017 and was serving a 25-year sentence until the ...

A New York federal appeals court overturned the conviction of the man found guilty in the 1979 kidnapping and killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz, bringing back to the spotlight a case that drew national ...

The 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz as he walked alone to his New York City bus stop for the first time shook the country and still resonates in the present.

A US appeals court has ruled that the man convicted in the 1979 murder and disappearance of a six-year-old boy in New York ...