Lisa R. Cohen

On National Missing Children’s Day, a breakthrough in Etan Patz abduction case

Global Politics

Etan Patz was abducted 33 years ago, a day that will ever-more be marked as National Missing Children’s Day. But this year, the New York Police announced what could be a breakthrough in that unsolved, cold case. They had arrested a suspect, and he had confessed.

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